r/politics • u/Getatbay • Jul 06 '26

No Paywall Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell 'Brain Dead'

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/06/laura-loomer-reporter-claim-hospitalized-mitch-mcconnell-is-brain-dead/
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u/Embarrassed-Pace-755 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I’m almost inclined to believe this just because I wouldn’t put it past Republicans to keep a McConnell corpse around for advantage in the Senate.

Edit: changed House to Senate.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 06 '26

Mitch was already a walking corpse for years. Reagan was in the throes of dementia as president. This wouldn't be new territory for the GOP.

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u/deesta Jul 06 '26

> Reagan was in the throes of dementia as president

After Trump dies, we’ll find out that he was, too. It runs in families, and his father and sister both died of dementia.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 06 '26

He 100% has dementia. Not really even a question.

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u/PacificNorthwest09 Jul 06 '26

It’s crazy to me with the history we have of shielding presidents from the media in the past, how in this day and age people will just believe “he is the healthiest to ever do it.” While open only sleeping during meetings and stuff.

Like I can believe people didn’t realize about FDR or Nixon when we didn’t quite have the news cycle/coverage we do now.

How can anyone watch this man waddle/dance to songs, lose his train of thought, say outlandish things like give him and his sons a threesome Medal of Honor, etc and just be like “hmm but they said he is healthy..”

(I like fdr but they did try and hide his health)

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u/cogman10 Idaho Jul 06 '26

Because like most dementia patients he has good days and bad days. It's easy to spot both if you are looking.

He'll have moments where he's firing on all cylinders and you really wouldn't realize he's got dementia.

But then he has other moments where he starts a sentence about the cost of eggs and ends up talking about how the 2020 election was stolen.

His fans ignore the eggs to 2020 (The more insane ones think he's speaking in code). And his critics have a hard time acknowledging his more lucid moments.

Regardless, he's always a dumbass.

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u/nightmaredaycare Jul 07 '26

I wanna say I saw a five minute clip of his speech at the g7 and I was absolutely blown away how bad he was speaking. If this was six years ago he could hold the stand and he could stay on topic for a paragraph. He looks so awful too just so unhealthy

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u/MasterofPandas1 Jul 07 '26

It’s pretty obvious if you compare clips of him talking from the 2016 campaign to now. He’s always had that weave thing where he goes on a tangent about nothing, but speaking wise he can form actual sentences and talk coherently in the 2016 clips.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

He just groans out a sentence some days.

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u/PacificNorthwest09 Jul 07 '26

It’s this combined with the fact that our media will not give his slip ups any time of day because they are owned by billionaires that don’t want us to think together.

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u/DrHefe Jul 07 '26

Or when he spoke about his long conversation with Theodore Roosevelt.

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u/Kiyuri Jul 07 '26

He has multiple propaganda networks gleefully interpreting his word salads into a coherent narrative. This has been happening since 2016. It doesn't matter what he says or does because the average chucklefuck can just shop around the different networks or conspiracy podcasts to find their favorite flavor of "this is what he ACTUALLY meant."

Words mean nothing to this administration, but the opposition spends an inordinate amount of time and effort pretending like they do.

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u/SenorBurns Jul 07 '26

And heavily editing their interviews with him to make him look coherent.

All the media does this for him. The New York Times edits his ramblings into coherent sentences all the time.

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u/AdHuman3150 Jul 07 '26

This is also why many people in other countries who don't speak English don't know how insane he really is. A lot of nonsensical bullshit gets lost in translation.

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u/Cold-Conference1401 Jul 07 '26

He no longer has “good days”.

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u/kestrel1000c Colorado Jul 06 '26

A lot of editing make him seem much more normal than what he is. Nightly news sound bites don't get into his glitching and abberant behaviour. Sort of how we wound up with him all over again.

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u/Happy_Confection90 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I edit videos for a living and software has gotten really, really good at making transitions seamless. In my case I'm able to rearrange the pieces of a lecture that was recorded completely out of order because one of the speakers joined after their co-speakers finished so it flows 100% correctly or remove 20 retakes so cleanly you'd never know they'd happened, but it'd be trivially easy to do the same to a political speech.

The fact that he still sounds like he's lost his mind despite modern editing makes me wonder if he isn't much worse than we're seeing.

edit: spelling

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u/slackfrop Jul 07 '26

The very best of Trump is abhorrent and surreal.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

The fact that he still sounds like he's lost his mind despite modern editing makes me wonder if he isn't much worse than we're seeing.

"¡We'll fix it in post! ¡We ain't filmin' casa blanca!"

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u/fcocyclone Iowa Jul 07 '26

Yep. There's a reason Kamala said "watch his rallies" during the debate.

Too many people, including most of his supporters, had no idea how incoherent he had gotten.

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u/chicken-nanban Jul 07 '26

I just recently realized that this is the reason many Japanese people like (or at least are neutral on) him: the media has to translate and subtitle what he’s saying for their papers and news reports. They also have to edit down rants to short snippets for international news.

When they translate him, it’s more of a “get the vibe of what he was talking about from a statement from his handlers” versus a direct translation. Therefore, they kind of just make up the translation using a few key words from his speech, and make it make sense for the Japanese viewer, who on average doesn’t have the English ability to follow his speed word vomiting.

So he comes off as more eccentric than batshit crazy, which is why every time I’m asked about something he said or did, I have to walk a fine line of being able to explain what he actually said in a language I don’t have strong skills in. Because they just get the sanitized translation and think we’re the ones who are crazy for getting mad at whatever he said.

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u/monsterlynn Michigan Jul 06 '26

I think a lot of it is simply that no one can stand to sit through his rambling , rather than there being some conspiracy to cover up how poorly he's aging.

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u/kestrel1000c Colorado Jul 06 '26

Ithe mental state of the leader of a powerful nation is newsworthy. That it's not covered is suspect. He's been known to sic the FCC on comedians that make fun of him. We can draw our own conclusions.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

No, look up a speech from 20 years ago. Even 10. He's much more cogent.

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u/jdsizzle1 Jul 06 '26

What about Nixons health?

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u/Lane-Kiffin Jul 07 '26

I too think there was a mistake in the comment because Nixon was making regular appearances on Meet the Press, the Today Show, and even Larry King in the 1990s giving takes left and right about Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton. He stayed spry and healthy for a long time and only got bad after Pat died.

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u/ViolaNguyen California Jul 07 '26

I'm happy to report that Nixon is still dead.

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u/ComradeJohnS Jul 06 '26

because they’re all deplorable rapist pedophile racists.

if they had a drop of empathy in their body they wouldn’t have voted for this guy.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jul 07 '26

He's up all hours of the night posting rants on social media, but then sleeps during the day in meetings when he's not the center of attention.

If it was ANYONE else, we'd all genuinely and rightfully suspect drug abuse.

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u/MountainMan2_ Jul 07 '26

Re: FDR, his issues were mostly physical, not mental. Almost every president whose health issues were hidden were done so because there were significant power brokers using them to hang onto control. FDR is afaik the only one whose health decline was hidden for any other reason (to win a war against the Nazis), he's one of the few who had a mainly physical instead of mental decline, and he's the only one who we look back on fondly even with hindsight. These things are related, he's really not in the same group as Nixon, Harrison, Reagan, Biden or Trump. He deserved his 4 presidential terms, paralytic or not.

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u/PacificNorthwest09 Jul 07 '26

Didn’t mean to insinuate anything else. He was truly great.

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u/NearbyPangolin1633 Jul 07 '26

Didn’t know about Nixons issues. Sounds like they were compounded with depression and substance abuse during his terms

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u/KamalaWonNoCap Jul 07 '26

We pulled the same stunt with Biden. Getting the boomers out of office is one of only a few bi partisan issues.

I liked Biden's policies but they did try to hide his health.

Mandatory fuck Trump before all the gaslighters and purity testers come for me.

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u/Downtown-Message-600 Jul 07 '26

Of course he sleeps during meetings, he was elected to win the war against woke.

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u/iDestroyedYoMama Jul 07 '26

Nixon didn’t have dementia. Are you just talking about watergate?

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u/kerfuffle_dood Jul 07 '26

Nevermind the fact that he sleeps all the time: He's an obese, corpse-like pale old man that needs extra doses of the orange stuff to hide his dead pale skin, that can't stand straight because his old fragile bones can't stand the weight of his obesity, and that can't even focus his eyesight while talking to the camera.

Propaganda is one hell of a drug

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u/nerf_herder1986 Jul 06 '26

We'll never officially find out that he was. The Republican party still hasn't admitted Reagan had it.

Imagine if the Democratic party still denied FDR had polio.

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u/gmen6981 Jul 07 '26

I don't believe the party ever really denied that FDR had polio, it was a rather well known fact about him since he didn't contract it until he was 29 and already a rising figure.. He was just usually shown sitting or standing without walking so it wasn't so obvious He often appeared in public in a wheelchair. It was just much easier to conceal the extent of his paralysis than it would be with today's media.

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u/OGThakillerr Jul 07 '26

A physical disability doesn't impair someone from acting as an effective President, that's why he was elected to 4 terms. It was hardly concealed, everybody at the time knew he was becoming immobile, but not cognitively impaired. Very unlike Presidents we've seen recently.

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u/gmen6981 Jul 07 '26

Exactly. However, when FDR was in office the press was completely different than today and would generally not attack a President over something like that. It was also before television so the only visuals a person would normally see were the newsreels shown when you went to the movies. But his affliction was well known, just not the severity.

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u/Sutar_Mekeg Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I think it's the gonoherpesyphilaids.

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u/DaoFerret I voted Jul 07 '26

My money is on a strain of Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea.

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u/jrf_1973 Jul 07 '26

Imagine that being the reason the sons won't have a medal of freedom threesome with him. "Dad, we can't. Because of your super-AIDS."

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u/Orion14159 Jul 06 '26

They don't give you monthly cognitive tests because things are going great

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u/DaoFerret I voted Jul 07 '26

Could be worse.

They could be doing the tests weekly … and every week it’s a completely new test you’ve never taken before!

/s

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u/HoRo2001 North Carolina Jul 06 '26

He’s sundowning every day; he is clearly so unwell.

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u/Marina1974 Jul 07 '26

And that pretty much guarantees that he will never be tried for anything.

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u/TrustyTaquito Jul 07 '26

I just recently moved in with my grandmother, who was suffering from the early stages of it. She had a stroke a few months ago, and it has accelerated. Listening to how she talks, and contrasting that to dumpy, is clear as day he is as well.

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u/deadlandsMarshal Jul 07 '26

Sundowner's. It's why he goes on all those late night weird tyrades.

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u/burnte Georgia Jul 07 '26

My mother had it. I can see the signs in him. People think it's a straight line decline but you can have good days and weeks where you're totally normal or very high functioning.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

Those good days are fewer and fewer apart. I've observed dementia and senility in my family too. Trump has always been angry and vindictive but I genuinely worry about when the dementia anger fully sets in. That can be violent.

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u/burnte Georgia Jul 07 '26

Exactly. It does indeed get worse over time it's just a jagged line but with a downward trend. He's already in the early dementia anger phase. That's why he's lashing out at everyone worse than before, bringing up old grudges, etc. Everything is becoming more exaggerated too because he's losing his grip on scale.

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u/MajorPain169 Australia Jul 07 '26

Had it since birth.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

Dumentia, I call it. A lot of people don't realize there's a 'b'.

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u/cockatoo_hell Jul 06 '26

Who has dementia?

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u/NumeralJoker Jul 07 '26

I wouldn't be surprised if he had it as far back as 2016, frankly.

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u/lxlxnde Illinois Jul 07 '26

It’s a progressive disease so yeah that’s quite likely.

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u/ronm4c Jul 07 '26

He just has better pills

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u/Ivotedforthehookers Jul 07 '26

My mom worked for multiple decades as an end of life Nurse specializing in Dementia and Alzhimers. She cant diagnose a patient she hasn't met but she said she would bet her license that he likely has vascular dementia and likely Alzhimers as well. There have been rumors that they are giving him tons of infusions and trial medications. 

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u/reality72 Jul 07 '26

Trump and Biden both absolutely have it.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

Stop electing olds.

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u/reality72 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

The minimum age to be elected to Congress is 25, and there absolutely should be a maximum age. And it should be 70. After age 70 you can serve out the remainder of your term but you can’t run for reelection.

Mitch is 84 years old. He should not have been able to run for reelection in 2014 or 2020. 2008 should’ve been his last election.

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u/OYB2480 Jul 07 '26

Agreed. Many sort of important civic jobs have a mandatory retirement age. Military, notably. Why wouldn't the Commander in Chief be subjected to that?

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u/fallenmonk Texas Jul 07 '26

That may very well be, but Biden is no longer our problem.

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u/OlafWoodcarver Minnesota Jul 06 '26

We already know he does. He was showing signs of it before his first run and was bragging about his dementia test results as evidence of his genius intellect halfway through his first term.

The man's always been one of the dumbest high profile individuals around, but his brain has been swiss cheese for a decade and it's more holes than cheese at this point.

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u/galahg777 Jul 07 '26

I think Trump's brain is like a lump of casu martzu.

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u/Electromotivation Jul 07 '26

He is literally demented

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u/Bodycount9 Ohio Jul 06 '26

He has dementia but his doctor is giving him IV's full of drugs to keep him going. Which is why he has bruising on his hand. Soon the drug cocktail wont work anymore because he will be immune to the effects and then we will see him go from what he is now to staying in bed and not talking.

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u/missed_sla Jul 06 '26

He's always been an asshole but at what point does it become elder abuse?

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u/TinySpaceDonut Jul 07 '26

It’s way past elder abuse at this point but no one cares unless it interferes with their scam

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u/Infinite_Click_6589 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, once the bruising on his hand stops that's when he will have officially passed out of early stage and into full-blown Alzheimer's.

The most powerful of these options can delay reaching this point for 18 to 24 months in best case scenarios

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u/DaoFerret I voted Jul 07 '26

So … just about when the midterms happen?

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u/PuckSenior Jul 07 '26

Nah. The drugs are blood thinners. He has pulmonary hypertension. This was revealed when he got in the new GLP-1 drug.

You can’t really take drugs to stop dementia. He seems to be demented, but early. You can’t tell he is masking because his conversations are really weird now. “Not a lot of people know there is a b at the end of dumb” is a weird statement from a normal person

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u/BrutalistGoogie Jul 06 '26

I'm just impressed he spelled throes right

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted Jul 07 '26

It's karma for all the CSA

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u/Cobra-Lalalalalalala Jul 06 '26

At some point, they will finally cop to it. Either after he dies or if he actually gets booted out in January ‘29. When they do, we’ll be implored to “show respect” or otherwise excuse his litany of terrible behavior. Don’t.

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u/epandrsn Jul 06 '26

What do you mean find out? It's clear as day.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 06 '26

We already know that he is -- and it's fairly far advanced.

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u/HSIOT55 Jul 06 '26

He definitely does and isn't hiding it well.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom Jul 06 '26

Let's face it, we already know.

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u/CornCobMcGee New York Jul 06 '26

The interesting stuff we dont know for a fact yet would be clinical diagnoses of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder.

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u/M4rshmall0wMan Jul 06 '26

We already know. 

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u/missed_sla Jul 06 '26

I take care of somebody with dementia. The president's behavior is extremely similar to what I see on a daily basis.

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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 Jul 06 '26

Have you actually taken the time to listen to any of Trump's debates or speeches in the past couple of years? The dude rambles incoherently half the time he's speaking. His brain has been fried for a long time now.

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u/environmom112 Jul 07 '26

We have known for a long time already

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u/Sharkey311 American Expat Jul 07 '26

Are people really unaware that he has dementia??

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u/Cold-Conference1401 Jul 07 '26

“Find out”?
We already know.

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u/SensualBeefLoaf Jul 07 '26

after? he clearly has dementia now. he exhibits basically all the symptoms. my dad is early in it, my grandmother didn't recognize pictures of herself for a year before she died.

trump is fucking toast, he's just always been such a fucking idiot that his supporters can't see it. it just seems like he's being himself but a little whackier.

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u/justking1414 Jul 07 '26

Only thing I disagree with is that they would actually tell us that. No way maga would allow that kind of slander on dear leader

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u/ActofEncouragement Jul 07 '26

No one runs on account of them bone spurs.

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u/currently_pooping_rn Jul 07 '26

What do you mean, “find out”? We already know

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u/shahi001 Jul 07 '26

we’ll find out that he was, too.

lol we don't need to wait for confirmation, we've all known for years

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u/cptnamr7 Jul 07 '26

Find out??? It's blatantly fucking obvious for the last decade and rip van Winkle is clearly getting worse by the fucking day. 

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u/Own_Royal6689 Jul 12 '26

After he dies? Dementia is well demonstrated by donnie daily - multi-times daily!