Trump Can No Longer Hide His Cognitive Issues
The media has not been able to stop talking about President Biden's age, but lately they have a new topic and it is Trump's mental fitness.
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Trump’s Failing Brain Is Being Noticed
Trump has been making off-the-wall statements for years, but something has changed. The statements that he is making during the 2024 campaign aren’t just inflammatory. They are totally wrong. For instance, Trump keeps claiming that Barack Obama is the current president. Trump got the leaders of North Korea and China confused. Trump claimed that Biden would start World War II.
As CNN’s Jim Acosta said, these Trump mental slip-ups are happening more often:
Acosta isn’t the only mainstream journalist who has taken notice.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl recently wrote on Twitter, “Trump is again confused about who is president ... He tells the crowd that Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has called for Obama to step down as president to be replaced immediately by Trump. [NOTE: Obama isn't president]”
The Washington Post was more direct in talking about what Republicans and Democrats see as Trump’s cognitive decline, “As Trump’s Republican rivals face growing pressure to stop his momentum, while Democrats seek to neutralize concerns about Biden’s age, the two sides are converging on a common argument — that Trump’s cognition has declined too far for him to lead the country again.”
Trump has never been the most fluid speaker, but the difference is that Trump is getting basic facts wrong on a regular basis.
As the media has focused more on Trump’s gaffes, there has been less talk about Biden’s age, because the President seems much sharper than Donald Trump.
The differences between Trump and Biden stand out.
Biden has released decades of medical records.
Trump won’t release any medical records.
President Biden may have his verbal stumbles, but he has never confused basic facts like who was president when he won the election in 2020.
Biden is leading the world during the dual global problems of war in Israel and Ukraine.
Trump is leading a criminal defense team and trying to avoid prison.
We’ll discuss more about Trump’s mistake-filled campaign and why it could get worse below.
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