Devasting Details Of Cognitive Decline: Trump Thinks Deceased Joan Rivers Voted For Him

Donald Trump told an author that Joan Rivers voted for him after she had been dead for two years, among other details that highlight Trump's cognitive issues.

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Trump’s Cognitive Issues Are Being Exposed

At his recent rally in Wisconsin, Trump claimed numerous times while reading from his teleprompter that President Biden doesn’t know where he is or what is going on. Trump pointed to edited and debunked video from the RNC as evidence of Biden’s “decline,” but there is a bubbling story about Trump’s issues that is exposing the ex-president just days before the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election cycle.

Author of the book The Apprentice In Wonderland, Ramin Setoodeh went into detail about the severe cognitive issues he encountered while interviewing Trump for years.

Transcript via CNN:

RAMIN SETOODEH, AUTHOR: So, I interviewed Donald Trump more than any other journalist, since he's left the White House. We started in May 2021.

And that report you just talked about, about meandering and confusing is right. He goes from one story to the next. He struggles with the chronology of events. He seems very upset that he wasn't respected by certain celebrities in the White House. And then he'd go to a story about "The Apprentice."

So, as you know, Kaitlan, it's very challenging to interview Donald Trump, and to go toe-to-toe with him. But there was some cognitive questions about where he was, and what he was thinking. And he would -- he would, from time to time become confused.

COLLINS: Because you wrote, at one point, about Joan Rivers, him telling you that she voted for him, in 2016, I believe, even though.

SETOODEH: He confidently told me and declared that Joan Rivers voted for him, when he ran for president. And Joan Rivers died in 2014 -- Joan Rivers died in 2014. So, she would not have been able to vote for Donald Trump. COLLINS: Yes. And you, because you talked about his memory. You wrote that, on some days, I had the feeling he has no idea who is even talking to that he actually forgot, or didn't remember that the two of you had spoken at your first sit-down interview.

SETOODEH: Right. So, my first interview down was in May. He wasn't doing a lot of interviews.

And then, we sat down again towards the end of the summer. And when I sat down, I, you know, there was a very blank expression on his face. So I asked, do you remember when we spoke recently?

And he said, no, I have no memory of that.

And he couldn't recall. He said it was a long time ago. And then we had to start from scratch.

So, the interview started from square one, where he was started telling me the same exact stories that we -- that we -- I heard in our first interview. So, from there, then we did more interviews, so that we could cover more ground. But it was a little bit like Groundhog Day.

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It deeply upsets Trump that celebrities have not embraced him. Trump has always been the typical reality TV fame chaser. In this context, it makes total sense that Trump would claim that Joan Rivers voted for him.

Donald Trump didn’t know that Joan Rivers had been dead for two years before the 2014 election.