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Trump's Decline Hits A Troubling New Low In Memphis, Tennessee

It was surreal to watch members of Trump's cabinet like Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi praise him as the president snoozed in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley
Mar 23, 2026
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If we are all lucky, we will live long lives that stretch way beyond what could have been imagined possible.

When the top of Donald Trump’s very public decline is brought up, it is not done with ageist intent. Age and wisdom should be celebrated, not dismissed. The focus of the conversation around Trump’s decline should be centered on ability and performance.

Recent polling has found that now that the American people have gotten a dose of the current version of Donald Trump, they increasingly think Joe Biden was a better president than Trump currently is.

A substantial number of voters were hoodwinked by a political media that saw dollar signs when they thought of a second Trump presidency, so they had ample incentive to make voters turn on Biden.

The dollar signs have never materialized for much of the media outside of a few Trump-aligned billionaires, and the rest of the country has seen itself be subjected to the agenda of a billionaire president who has zero care about their concerns.

However, in the bizarro world of his administration, Donald Trump keeps being referred to as a strong leader and president, but Trump has increasingly taken on the look and behavior of a president in decline.

This was the scene in Memphis on Monday as Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth was saying:

 And the state level, working hand and glove, it doesn’t happen any other way. You see, before President Trump, our nation was set on a perpetual course of decline. Our defense industrial base had been hollowed out. Our military had lowered its standard prioritizing equity over merit and lethality. And right here in cities like Memphis, our people were focused on enduring just what seemed to be the status quo of rampant vicious crimes.

So what was that go-getter Trump doing while Hegseth was speaking? Keep reading below to find out.

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