Trump was accused of ‘slowly losing it’ as latest signs of ‘dementia’ unravel sparking health worries
"The president forgot names, showed confusion over who was with him at the event, and appeared to fabricate stories that could not possibly be true.
"...during a rant in which he brutally criticizes Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump forgets that he appointed him, saying "I'm surprised he was appointed. I was surprised that Biden put him in."
Donald Trump claimed his uncle had taught the future Unabomber at MIT, despite the domestic terrorist never having attended the university.
President Donald Trump's cognitive decline was called back into question during a rambling speech in Pittsburgh Tuesday, during which he forgot names and told stories that were very unlikely to be true.
At one point, however, he claimed that his uncle, a physicist who helped create radar systems during World War II, taught future "Unabomber" terrorist Theodore Kaczynski at MIT, none of which had actually happened.
Kaczynski never attended MIT, but rather received degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan. Even if John Trump had once crossed paths with Kaczynski, he could not have known he would commit 16 bomb attacks between 1971 and 1995, as John Trump died in 1985, years before he was identified as the Unabomber.
He also forgot who from his team had come with him on the trip to Pittsburgh, mistakenly gesturing to Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th Congressional District Dan Meuser, who was not present at the event. “I want to introduce Dan Meuser. Dan Meuser is here,” Trump said. “Where’s Dan?”
During his speech, Trump...also claimed that he had secured $16 trillion in investments in the economy, despite the U.S. economy totally just under $30 trillion.”
And finally, a shocking example of his mental decline:
(Trump appointed Powell on November 2, 2017, and former President Biden reappointed him in May of 2022.
Why doesn't Trump's staff insist on prepping him before he goes before cameras and the American people and shows his mental deterioration?
How bad must Trump's mental state be for him NOT TO REMEMBER that he himself appointed Powell?
Where's Jake Tapper now on this egregious show of Trump's failing cognitive abilities?
Do people actually think Trump's in charge? Really?
BREAKING: In a shocking moment, during a rant in which he brutally criticizes Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump forgets that he appointed him, saying "I'm surprised he was appointed. I was surprised that Biden put him in."
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) July 16, 2025
Trump nominated him in 2017.pic.twitter.com/5K7Jjf21D5
24 comments:
Waiting (not really) for skud to back his statement that he's just as critical of MAGA as he is of Democrats.
So many podcasts are talking about the deconstruction of one Donald J Trump. He doesn't look good, his makeup can't coverup his complexion issues, his ankles are swollen.... dude does not look good and his mind keeps taking a walk without him attached.
Note about citing sources from another post - when verifying a source please check to ensure the information you rely on wasn't a teaser to sell you something, like a book maybe? If Jake Tapper was really as concerned as he conveys in his book, why didn't he say something earlier? It's a lot like someone watching an arsonist burning down a building but not calling the fire department because the book rights to the insider story will be off the charts. Actually it's not "a lot like" it's exactly this.
I could be wrong but I think I heard Biden extended him. Which could indicate he remembered originally appointing him.
But yeah, the Orange FOTUS certainly is showing ample signs of cognitive decline. Depending how rapidly he unravels we could be seeing him sucking his thumb before the end of his I'll begotten presidency #2.
Did you see Frontline last night?
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/07/millions-of-people-spied-on-by-malicious-browser-extensions-in-chrome-and-edge
Trump thought Biden originally appointed Powell AND extended his appointment. How bad does your memory have to be to not remember you appointed this very very important position? Again Trump is showing America. He’s not all there.
Thanks, I’m going to check it out.
Do we really need a president or would we be better off with a monarchy for all celebrations and public appearances. We have a history of having incompetent presidents with egos to large to let professionals run the country.
Obama would be a great monarch because he is loved by all, well almost all. He can speak well and has the appearance of looking like he cares about others.
Look at the last two selections, biden who may go down as worse than carter and trump who doesn't have the temperament to undue the destruction biden caused. He doesn't have enough time because the damage goes to deep to correct in one term.
Is there a Reagan in the wings who can reverse disaster of the previous administration, we can certainly hope.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. As I'm hearing impaired I often mishear things. Even with my hearing aids.
Reagan? LMAO!! The president responsible for the first initial round of ballooning the annual deficits and increasing the national debt.
That and he is the dude who proclaimed that: No republican should ever say a bad thing about another republican. It is Raegan who really is the early, perhaps unwitting architect, of the state of the republican party today. Although I doubt the affable Reagan would support the FOTUS were he alive yet today. But maybe.
And no skud, we DO NOT need or want a frigging Monarch. Although the nutter Christian Nationalists would probably hail such an event. Rule by divine right and all that BS.
We're more likely to end up with a goddamn authoritarian facist dictatorship along the model of Putin's Russia. tRump has been practicing his entire adult life to be a dictator. One without a moral compass or any ethical bearings.
skud: "Is there a Reagan in the wings who can reverse disaster of the previous administration, we can certainly hope."
"Scholarly analysis:
Studies suggest that alleged and actual crime and wrongdoing during the Reagan administration exceeded that of previous presidents, with over 200 individuals facing ethical or criminal investigations between 1980 and 1988.
Other perspectives argue that Reagan himself maintained personal integrity, and that the issues were more about his hands-off leadership style and reliance on advisors."
"Hands-off leadership style and reliance on advisors." What was Reagan doing those 8 years if he wasn't "hands-on?" We all know that he suffered from dementia -- Alzheimer's disease. In fact, according to historians and scholars of the American presidency, Reagan was JUST LIKE WHAT YOU ACCUSE BIDEN OF BEING -- "OUT OF IT" DURING HIS PRESIDENCY! Your partisanship blinds you to facts. And facts are stubborn things. You apparently had no problem with senile disengagement in a president so long as that president has an "R" after his name.
In a previous post, you also claimed that a convicted felon, sexual assaulter, serial adulterer, liar, cheat, and fraudster was the better of the two candidates in the 2024 election -- You preferred the convicted criminal over an officer of the law -- a DA and an attorney general who went after criminal! Unbelievable.
You accused Dave Dubya and me of being "Yellow Dog Democrats," but you've shown yourself to be someone who, in these two cases, believes the criminal president and the cognitively impaired president, who presided over one of the most scandal-ridden administration in post-WWII, are the epitome of good governance!
Breathtaking! Absolutely breathtaking!
Skud,
Please STOP sucking that mushroom as in, "undue the destruction biden caused".
Are you oblivious of Trump's CRIMINAL and violent destruction of our heritage of peaceful transfer of power?
Are you unaware of the fact that thanks to Trump we have unconstitutional "presidential immunity" that lets him be a dictator?
Are you unaware that "equal justice under law" is DEAD??
Are you unaware of the destruction of our rule of law as Trump abuses OUR DOJ to persecute people he hates, or even who disagree with him?
What the hell crime did Chris Krebs commit, besides telling Trump he lost a fair election in 2020. For that "crime against the King" he is being investigated by the FBI without any suspicion of any crime.
THAT is abuse and destruction of our rule of law. It is waste, fraud and abuse from a CRIMINAL president.
Are you unaware of the coming destruction of human lives when millions of American lose healthcare as cancer and medical research is DESTROYED?
Are you really that DUPED by Trump? Show some judgment and dignity for a change.
Shaw,
I've been saying all along Skud is MAGA Trump apologist. And I may be just as correct in calling out his other negative tendencies.
He's more authoritarian than libertarian. His loyalty to Trump screams it out loud.
Wrong URL. ... Here's the right one. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/trumps-power-the-rule-of-law/
Trump Aide: Sir, you appointed him.
Trump: Appointed Who?
Aide: Jerome Powell
Trump: Who?
Aide: Jerome Fed Reserve
Trump: Oh that guy? What idiot appointed him?
Aide: You did sir.
Trump: Fake News
Aide: my mistake Sir.
Reagan did suffer from dementia during his last two years of his term, that gave him six years of very competent leadership vs zero for the last guy. He took over a disaster from carter and carter shared some similar traits as biden. Both caused American troops to be killed, both caused inflation to rise, both caused interest rates to rise.
You do focus on trump being a criminal because his accountants messed up some tax information and a partial judge said he harassed a women in a store decades ago. Somehow believing someone who would not scream in a public dressing room (not a soundproof room) who comes out decades later is not really creditable. I'm sure you will see things different unless of course it was the kennedy's or clinton.
During Ronald Reagan's two terms as president (January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989), 299 US military personnel died in hostile actions.
Beirut Barracks Bombing (1983): 241 US service members were killed when suicide bombers struck US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This included 220 Marines, 18 US Navy sailors, and 3 US Army soldiers.
Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada, 1983): 18 US service members were killed during the invasion of Grenada."
There were at least 16 U.S. military personnel killed in hostile action during the Biden administration.
This figure includes the 13 service members who died in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate of Kabul's airport during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
It also includes three service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan in January 2024.
While Carter did not launch any major military interventions, there were at least 12 military deaths due to hostile action during his four year presidency.
More military personnel died in hostile actions during Reagan's 8 years than during the 8 years of Biden's and Carter's single terms.
So you're incorrect there.
Also, Reagan had the most corrupt administration post WWII, which you constantly ignore, as though that's just Republican corruption that we've come to expect with Republican presidents, See: Nixon, Reagan, Trump.
Your willingness to dismiss Trump's corruption and his sexual assaults on E. Jean Carroll and others is shocking; but considering who you deem a great president (Reagan), understandable.
Oh, and there's this:
"Trump has launched as many air strikes in five months as Biden did in four years. Despite pledging not to engage in conflict overseas, Trump has sharply escalated attacks."
skud:
"Reagan did suffer from dementia during his last two years of his term, that gave him six years of very competent leadership vs zero for the last guy."
It's not that simple, skud. I have up close and personal knowledge of the awful disease that is dementia/Alzheimer's. Both my husband and my beloved sister died from it.
Changes associated with Alzheimer's disease can begin in the brain decades before obvious symptoms like memory and thinking problems become apparent. This initial period is known as the preclinical stage. Studies suggest this stage can last for 10 years or more.
During the six years BEFORE Reagan's Alzheimer's became painfully evident, he was suffering from it. My husband had all kinds of symptoms before his Alzheimer's disease took away his ability to function -- up to 10 years! Reagan was suffering from dementia when he swore his first Oath of Office. That's for sure.
To quote Skud's favorite president, "There you go again", giving credit to Reagan and Trump for fewer military deaths than Carter or Biden when the opposite is true.
Skud,
Have you no shame? No decency?
YOU LIE!!!! Or you're pathetically dismissive and ignorant of FACTS, just to suit your PREJUDICE against Democrats. It is demonizing at the minimum and dishonest on its face. No wonder you support the most dishonest and criminal party in history.
Just because Trump's corrupt and treasonous stooges on the Supreme Court granted him unconstitutional immunity doesn't mean he didn't commit any CRIMES and that the charges were supported by overwhelming evidence. But then, you might say Hitler wasn't a criminal either. But he did hate Democrats as much as you do,.
Pathetic.
Ms. Shaw, Alzheimer's is very difficult with those around them. My father suffered from the disease and it was painful to watch. It can be either slow rapid onset and the signs are sometime difficult to acknowledge.
Yes there were soldiers killed during Regans term but he didn't make a stupid decision to cause this against every of his advisors advice.
skud has no shame or credibility. Their legacy is all MAGA, all the time, including defending a rapist.
What brought me to this post was skuds logical fallacy because with one breath they wrote on 7/15/25 at 6:03 PM: "...Can't trust him and it a shame he was the best of the two choices...." and on the same post wrote on 7/17/25 at 10:50 AM "I never said trump was the best choice..." Splitting hairs there skud, splitting hairs.
Job done, yes? Oh no and honestly I should have stopped because skud had more, so much more.
Defending the FOTUS they wrote "Somehow believing someone who would not scream in a public dressing room (not a soundproof room) who comes out decades later is not really creditable. I'm sure you will see things different unless of course it was the kennedy's or clinton."
The cat came in at this point because I'm not doing well. Kids read this blog otherwise I'd be letting loose a string of cuss words that would make a sailor proud.
Unlike SOME humans (looking at you skud) my support of any one has limits and anyone who commits sexual assault no longer has my support. There is an energy to folks who take advantage and for years I ignored those feelings because I blamed myself for not doing the things skud demands of all rape victims.
And then I spent years in therapy. Now I know who is to blame (not me) and who deserves all my ire (the rapist).
Now comes the rape apologist and I'm back at the beginning. This isn't the first time the topic has come up and almost to a person we've all tried to educate you skud, we must face reality. Sometimes a person is too stupid to be educated.
I need to take a break for a bit because there is a wolf chewing off my ear, and it's the nice wolf. The dark wolf? Well, they shall run with the wild hunt until my urge to do violence has passed.
skud, I hope your dreams suck until I return. I know, petty but right now, petty is where I'm at because rape apologists make me ill.
So Skud doubles down on his HATE for Biden while being a Reagan and Trump apologist.
"Yes there were soldiers killed during Regans term but he didn't make a stupid decision to cause this against every of his advisors advice."
Reagan was stupid enough to send Marines into Beirut's maelstrom of fighting factions. And even MORE stupidly, he sent them UNARMED!
So terrorists slaughtered them.
MAGA Skud thinks Reagan is blameless for their deaths by terrorists, but blames Biden for FEWER deaths by terrorists.
Skud's standards are EXACTLY the same as MAGA double standards and projection. No decency. No integrity. No honesty, All MAGA.
Gosh Grey One, not sure ole skud is stupid. After all he said he has (or had) his own business. My father owned his own successful small business and that takes some smarts.
skud it seems is an example of wilfull ignorance and delusion. The likely result of his reified and concretized beliefs. Beliefs grounded in his conditioning and the desires borne of his conditioning.
skud, by his many repeated statements, has made it clear that he is a MAGAt and that honesty, decency. Integrity, compassion, and empathy are nothing of importance to him. Certainly not as qualifications for being president anyway.
Wilfull ignorance is a tough nut to crack. Been there, done that. But when the nut is cracked a total sense of freedom and liberation washes over you that... well, I doubt skud will ever allow himself to experience it.
Dube, Better mushrooms may be the answer you are looking for. "Yes, the troops stationed at the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983, who were victims of the bombing, were armed. They were part of a multinational peacekeeping force deployed to Lebanon to stabilize the country and were armed for self-defense and maintaining order."
Grey, I hope you didn't stay up all night to compose your attack. The best of the two and the best is not the same.
I have daughters, granddaughters and a wife so of course I don't make excuses for sexual assault. I do think it is beyond belief that someone can be raped in a public changing room with thin walls and they wait decades to come forward. The same thing happened to kavanaugh, decades later and neither women could remember specifics. If we didn't question what is the truth we would have an entire Lacrosse team sitting in jail for something they didn't do.
Why do these incidents lay dormant for decades then come out when trump is in office. Ted kennedy was a drunk who was responsible for the death of an innocent women and the left let it slide.
Skud,
You're evading my point about your excusing Reagan from hundreds of troops killed by terrorists, but blame Biden for FEWER deaths.
FACTS: Reagan sent more troops to die needlessly that Biden did. YOU can't handle the truth, so you only lash out at Biden.
Do you call this "armed"?
https://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/the-impact/#:~:text=The%20Rules%20of%20Engagement%20(ROEs,a%20middle%20finger%20in%20response.
Marines were not to be combatants.
The Rules of Engagement (ROEs) governing the Marines remained strict. Marines could only shoot back if they were actively being fired upon and could see the attacker. Likewise, they were only permitted to respond with a level of force equal to the threat. A typical scene playing out might see a group of concealed militiamen blasting away at Marine positions. Abiding by the ROEs, Marines could fire back with rifles, and perhaps even a machine gun, until the militia fire stopped. Following the engagement, Marines looked on helplessly as the enemy fighters walked out of the building with rifles slung over their shoulders, laughing and shouting, “Bang! Bang!” as they formed guns with their fingers to continue “shooting” at the Marines. Without real bullets coming at them, the Marines could offer only a middle finger in response.
~~~
Go back to sucking on Trump's mushroom and blaming Biden for everything, like a good little MAGA loyalist.
Post a Comment