This May Be The Week Where Trump Lost The Election
Trump's behavior was so bizarre and broken that even the media noticed and it could cost the ex-president the election.
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Trump Gets So Erratic That Even The Media Can’t Ignore His Decline
There were first reports that Donald Trump was experiencing some mental decline in 2018. Reports at that time quoted White House staff as believing that Trump had mentally lost a step.
It has been six years of the nation’s corporate owned media ignoring Trump’s decline or even worse sane washing his decline.
With a little more than two weeks to go before the election, there are signs that this media behavior might be changing.
Here is how Jake Tapper opened Sunday’s CNN State Of The Union:
In dueling swings day rallies last night, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump offered voters sharply different closing messages. Harris kept the focus on Trump, questioning his fitness for office, while, in a major speech to the voters of Pennsylvania, Donald Trump went off on a 12-minute tangent about former pro-golfer Arnold Palmer, which included this bizarre anecdote about the athlete's penis:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TRUMP: But Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women.
(LAUGHTER)
(CHEERING)
TRUMP: But this guy -- this guy -- this is a guy that was all man.
When he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. They said, oh, my God.
(LAUGHTER)
TRUMP: That's unbelievable.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TAPPER: Unbelievable, indeed, this to end a week where Mr. Trump called for the military to handle his domestic political opponents, said that infamous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein got -- quote -- "schlonged," called Kamala Harris a quote "shit vice president," canceled scheduled interviews, continued to push lies about the 2020 election, including the notion that January 6 was a government-staged riot.
Also called January 6 -- quote -- "a day of love," compared the January 6 defendants to Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II, and at one rally decided to, instead of speak, dance and sway on stage for 39 minutes.
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The Arnold Palmer story caught the attention of the mainstream press because it happened so close to election day in a critical swing state. Basically, Trump put his cognitive decline on display on the biggest stage and it was so obvious that even the corporate media couldn’t ignore it.
Trump has also made it impossible to ignore because his cognitive events are building on top of each other. It is all pointing to one conclusion. Kamala Harris laid some of the foundation for this by releasing her medical records then asking why Trump hasn’t done the same.
The question becomes will this cost Trump the election?
Why This Could Be The Week That Lost Trump The Election
Every US presidential election has its turning point. It is difficult to spot the turning point in real time and sometimes it is only visible in hindsight. John F. Kennedy likely won the 1960 election due perceptions among voters who watched his first debate with Richard Nixon on television.
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