Dementia Don
"It’s not an unreasonable expectation that a president be able to explain a pardon for a convicted felon within hours of having signed the paperwork. And yet, Trump, by his own admission, struggled to justify the motivations for his own actions.
"The frequency with which this comes up is unsettling. Days earlier, Trump appeared lost when asked about developments in Israel. Two weeks before that, when asked about a possible suspension of habeas corpus, the president initially thought that was a reference to a person, before telling a reporter, “Oh, I don’t know.”
"Around the same time, Trump was forced to reverse course after he discovered that he’d cut off counterterrorism funds to New York City days earlier."
When I read this, I remembered the stories about Trump's father who had dementia. It was said that he continued to go into the office everyday as the illness progressed. People who put paperwork in front of him, offer a cursory explanation, and he would just sign it. No review. No discussion. Just a signature.
I have no doubt similar things at are happening in the Oval Office.
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On Air Force One Trump said: "Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don't think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions." Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, "a 10-minute assessment designed to identify signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s," according to The New Republic.
from PEOPLE Magazine:
The president, 79, claimed on Monday, Oct. 27, to have taken an "IQ test" at Walter Reed Medical Center, challenging Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who are 44 and 36 years old, respectively — to take the same exam.
"They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,' " the president said. "I took– Those are very hard– They're really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump."
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“Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don’t take it. Don’t take it!”---DJT
Trump claimed that his uncle, a noted physicist who helped develop radar systems during the Second World War, taught notorious future terrorist Theodore Kaczynski at MIT, despite none of it having actually happened.
