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Trump is clearly a moron with some kind of clinical brain dysfunction, but this is just like 2 seconds of fumbling with words, which pretty much anyone who does public speaking can do. I was expecting more than like 2 second's worth based on how big a deal the story sounded like.
IDK, maybe Newsweek is trying to run cover for him by running a big non-story about something innocuous to distract from the Nikki Haley / Nancy Pelosi thing.
I really don't understand Newsweek.
Right, it's one or two words he fumbles. His cognitive decline has been observed since 2016, nothing new here.
The article first says the video "is stoking concern among social media users" which, if you ask me, is not something news worthy. But then it goes on to point out how this was re-posted by the Biden campaign. Which does seems a little more of interest than just a bunch of yahoos on twitter pointing fingers.
Newsweek seems to always have a bullshit story above the fold and something somewhat relevant below it.
https://lemmy.world/comment/6915053
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This clip is pretty much on par with everything that tumbles out of his mouth. "Until you're vetted and everything else" is what I heard. I'm so sick of non-stories about Trump when there are so so so many credible things to attack him for.
I found your comment by searching for "Until you're vetted". It was easy enough to understand what he was saying that I was able to just search for the words I heard and find them here.
It's easy to hear what he's saying, sure he's "slurring the words", but it's not like a drunk slurring the words, or like he's had a stroke. He's just speaking in a sloppy way, not enunciating his words. There's a clear difference from earlier speeches where the words he was speaking were gibberish, but his enunciation was better. But, so what? What does that prove?
The Nikky Haley thing was a bigger gaffe, and more likely to indicate his not thinking correctly. But, again, it's just a gaffe. Biden also made plenty of gaffes, even when he was much younger.
None of this matters though. What matters is what will happen if Trump becomes president again. His first term resulted in all kinds of damage, and that's despite the fact that he didn't really have the Republican establishment behind him, and that so many of his staff were inexperienced. This time the main reason he's running is to be able to pardon himself from various crimes. He's going to have the new republican party behind him pushing extreme ideas, and he's going to be out for vengeance for all his enemies.
I really hope that going after him for "slurring his words" isn't actually an effective strategy for the Biden team, because if it's the kind of thing that actually sways votes, it shows how bad things really are in the US.
The Nikki/Pelosi thing is more than a gaffe. It's not like he said one name when he meant the other, a mixup anyone can make. No, he actually confused the people the way a person with Alzheimer's does.
Your take seems the most plausible to me, especially considering the clip they link to is super super short and removes any context.
I immediately wondered why this was a story given that clip.
The last time Newsweek reported on him 🙄
You have a twice-impeached president but focus on this?
Yeah. I'm becoming more and more convinced that Newsweek is blowing up non-stories about Trump to dilute genuine criticism of him by creating a "stupid criticism of Trump that has no merit" bucket in people's minds.
For-profit media doing whatever is most profitable, which is clickbait and gossip.
Could assume their viewership only reads headlines and conservatives ignore it anyway?
You aren't wrong about any of this, but let's not forget that a split second "BYAAAAAH" (Howard Dean) can tank an entire presidential run if it gets media attention.
With that said, Trump has had dozens of these blunders over the years. It means nothing.
There's a perpetual debate about which presidential candidate has the smallest amount of mental illness. The media is running with it. Every stumble, every mark, every labored breath is a sign they're going to drop dead any second.
I mean they are both old as hell. I actually have been really pleased and surprised with what Biden's done but he's definitely old, and he doesn't have Trump's animating meanness energy to keep him sustained.
I would attribute "what he's done" to the company he keeps. But that has nothing to do with his mental condition. There are plenty of old people (70+) that are totally mentally fit. Biden clearly has mental issues, slurred words, saying shit that doesn't make any sense, forgetting where he is, etc.
I'd say they're both mentally compromised in different ways. Where Biden suffers from slow degradation brought on simple old age, Trump suffers from a legitimate mental illness.
We could always just vote for someone who doesn't suffer from some sort of mentally illness, but that's not allowed.