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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Fucking worthless. Every "journalist" in that room should have pressed him on that. It fucking takes 2 seconds to pull up the clip of him saying it or the tweet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, man. We also can barely believe half the crazy shit you say, or that people eat it up. And yet you keep doing it...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

I don't think this one was dementia. Qt least not primarily. He's used to gaslighting in his personal life, and here he's simply gaslighting the whole world on television. If there's some dementia to this, then that is not to understand that you cannot gaslight a million people at once, because the point of gaslighting is to make its victim think they are going crazy and imagining things.

Though... Can it be that for the MAGA audience this gaslighting does work and they really will believe Trump has never called Zelenskyj a dictator?

[–] PieMePlenty 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is a confused, sick old man, with possible dementia. I think they have him take a regiment of various pills that boost him through the day, prolonging the rot happening on the inside. Makes him docile and a good little puppet. We hate him for good reason but its inhumane we let a person like this be president.

[–] CheeseNoodle 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Possible dementia? I watched one of his speeches live recently and he randomly jumped backwards almost to the beginning and repeated himself without batting an eye at least twice. The creepy part was the reporters just ignoring it and continuing to ask questions as if nothing had happened.

[–] kautau 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah he’s just a puppet of the oligarchy, and it’s far too late. His β€œbenefactors” have been sending him instructions on judges to hire, people to promote to his cabinet, executive orders to sign, etc, and he does it all and then spews some nonsense in interviews. Pretty incredible how easy it was to buy the US government.

The funny part though is when the plan starts to fall apart because a party based on distrust can’t function.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-files-pam-bondi-sends-fiery-note-kash-patel-accusing-fbi-withholding-docs.amp

I’m sourcing Fox News on purpose here. The Trump puppets are now bickering and it took like a month. The collapse is imminent unless some strong judges stop sending strongly worded letters and what’s left of the congress that cares begins voting unanimously and proposing bills unanimously to block what’s happening.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago

It's getting genuinely hard to tell if he's being deliberately duplicitous or just senile. At least when Biden had his senior moments you could tell it was just a senior moment.

[–] jimmy90 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

i do not listen to what trump says, i watch what his administration does

[–] Buffalox 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Trump wants you to join him on the insane train.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

I know someone like this. A lot of the possible dementia-induced-confusion is indistinguishable from the pre-dementia reality-distorting lies and malice, to the point you suspect even they don’t know what’s real anymore.

[–] werefreeatlast 36 points 16 hours ago (3 children)
[–] nieminen 25 points 16 hours ago

Selective memory. While he probably absolutely does suffer from dementia, he'll say whatever in the moment he thinks will make him seem the least amount of shitty. He frequently fails.

[–] Majorllama 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If Biden was too old. Trump is too old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Erase him from news pls, we can't read news from grannies who should have been forced to retire ages to. At least choose wise old men, possibly a literate one who's got better chance to still have a working memory

[–] Lost_My_Mind 72 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

A few weeks ago, he was signing some bill, to replace the old bill. And he said the old bill was one of the worst bills he had ever seen, and whomever signed it should be ashamed.

........anyone want to take a guess whose bill it originally was, signed into law in 2020? Anyone want to take a wild guess who should be ashamed?

Anyone?

Yeah, it was his bill from his 1st term.

[–] Mog_fanatic 34 points 17 hours ago

He did the exact same thing with existing deal with Mexico during the tariffs/deal crap. He said:

I look at some of these agreements, I’d read them at night, and I’d say, β€˜Who would ever sign a thing like this?

Guess who signed the deal in 2020? You guessed it! Ole Teflon don himself and at the time he described it as

The best agreement we’ve ever made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

When are they going to move all those kind of contracts to a sort of gitlab repository with versioning enabled?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have any idea how zero fucks anyone in the government gives a shit about being efficient, productive members of the government?

Or do you have any idea what kind of mental gymnastics it would take to teach trump what a repository is? He'd probably be scared of a repository, because he's not used to things going in his asshole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Time to use Muskion for something useful that is not just be a showman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

He'll never ever do it because this increases accountability. He's allergic to that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

he old bill was one of the worst bills he had ever seen, and whomever signed it should be ashamed.

never thought I'd agree with him on a thing

[–] Brainsploosh 118 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The correct response would probably be something like:

"Yes you did, it was broadcast live to most of the world. Why, don't you remember? Is your memory failing you?"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago

Yes, shame on the interviewer for leaving this lying there. This deserves confrontation.

[–] friend_of_satan 43 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Doublethink.

DoublethinkΒ is a process ofΒ indoctrinationΒ in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

[–] [email protected] 136 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] breadsmasher 75 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Por quΓ© no los tres?

[–] Balthazar 41 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I think you give him too much credit if you think he's not making everything up on the spur of the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Bone spur of the moment, even.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago

And the complete lack of emotion in his voice tells you he's long since stopped worrying about the consequences of his words/actions. He knows his base won't care.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dictators don't worry about pretending to be accountable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

But it helps immensely to keep a population stupid, confused, and distracted when you are one.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Why is the room laughing? That's infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

In fairness, that was my first reaction too.

A mix of "haha the bloke doesn't know what he had for breakfast, let alone what he said at the start of the week" and "haha he fucking what?"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Immediate follow up should have been deafening silence only broken by the journalist clarifying he did say it, and if he's intended to formally retract his accusation. I'm so tired.

[–] danekrae 10 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

Many emotions can elicit a laugh.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the people in here saying look how dumb he is can you fucking not fall for this BS please. he was very specific and direct with his language so no amount of Steve urkel "did I do that" shit walks back anything he does. and the public should not let that be the norm.

"ohh that's our dumb donny. " U fux

[–] Lost_My_Mind 12 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

There was literally a comedy central show called "Thats Our Bush". Republican presidents being massive dumbasses has been the norm here for 25 years.

[–] shplane 2 points 9 hours ago

Honestly, 50 years. Reagan and Nixon were dumbshits too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers bush, and that show. it's sort of the same basic premise. the general population glosses over actions of the president as dumb and dismisses them just the same. Bush wasn't an idiot either and should be tried for crimes but would never stick today.

[–] Raiderkev 3 points 16 hours ago

That's MY Bush good sir. It was made by Matt and Tre IIRC

[–] cabron_offsets 12 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Dementia Donnie strikes again.

(More likely another lie)

[–] SpaceNoodle 18 points 21 hours ago
[–] PugJesus 9 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago