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Can you imagine the wall to wall coverage had it been Biden who called his wife by the wrong name? It would go on for weeks.
Because it's Trump they'll be nary a peep about this from the "liberal" media.
Edit: Confirmed this morning - not a word about Trump's demented rambling on the front pages of CNN, NBC, NYT or WA Post. The GQP front-runner's inability to string a coherent sentence together or remember his wife's name should be front page news. If Biden tripped over a mic stand it would be.
The GOP is about to nominate an old man who can’t remember his 3rd wife’s name who is facing 91 federal charges.
Not just some old man. An old RAPIST.
Honestly at this point I don't think you can get the GOP nomination WITHOUT being a rapist.
The GOP doesn’t have a problem with that.
Who, more importantly, is literally a traitor to our country and attempted to overthrow democracy (albeit a pitiful halfhearted attempt via his angry lapdogs)
He also confused E Jean Carroll with his ex-wife Marla Maples in 2022.
Hmhmmm... Did he also rape a woman named Mercedes? 🤔
Mercedes Schlapp is a former trump aide whose husband Matt Schlapp was accused of groping a former aide of Herschel Walker. Definitely seems plausible.
It's like a human centipede of sexual predators.
Thanks for that horrifying visual. Ugh, I need to go soak my brain in bleach.
Ugh, I need to go soak my brain in bleach.
On second thought, please don't:
Trump’s bleach press conference happened one year ago today. We’ve never been the same.
I remember that press conference. It was so clear that someone had mentioned that bleach and UV are effective virus killers and he just ran with it like a PSA for awareness of Dunning-Krueger.
The guy who gave his daughter plastic surgery treats women as objects. It's not even shocking. It's not news. It's nothing. It's obvious. The weird part is, that people like him for it.
I usually manage to call my possessions by their correct names. Trump has dementia.
The number of people who don't seem to get that is staggering. He's shown clear signs of cognitive decline since at most 2020. I know mental health and elder care professionals that were noticing it as early ad 2016.
Just watch his interviews from around 9/11. He's still a stupid, pompous, narcissistic, lying piece of shit with delusions of grandiosity, but he could speak coherently and form complete thoughts.
It's likely only a matter of months before he finally sundowns with cameras on him, although I'm sure his handlers are trying their hardest to keep that from happening.
The thought of the day that I get to watch Donald Trump finally stroke out on stage for good is honestly what keeps me going at this point.
They will probably come up with a conspiracy of why it is the Liberal's fault
Problem is they'll weekend at Bernie's the situation
I think in politics it's called "doing a McConnell".
Some witch named Mercedes is polishing his mushroom. That’s fine tho, I’m sure melanoma has a side piece.
I said this in another thread that I bet some stripper or Porn star was banging him on the side and he slipped again.
Just imagine if Biden called Jill Biden ‘Jane’ or the like - the media would be be all over him for days poking fun at his supposed dementia.
Considering Donald's well-documented desire to play the world's most disappointing game of hide-the-underfilled-cocktail-frank with his own daughter, maybe Eric is that side piece. Shit doesn't fall far from the ass.
Makes perfect sense.
Trump probably regards her as an acquisition, like a luxury car.
Is his brain even going to last the nine months til the election? It feels like in just a month or two he will have degraded to saying the n-word on stage while talking about how bad he wants to fuck his daughter.
I mean, it doesn't make it better, but he got confused because he was talking about Mercedes Schlapp earlier.
This context is pretty important. I'm in my 20s and my brain would do this too
What are the odds that we just learned what he has been calling her at home for years?
What a...
Really, there are no words.
I am continually amazed by the USA. How does he get so much support? Why are all your candidates walking corpses? How did it get to this point?
Look around.
How did Modi get so much support?
How did Johnson get so much support?
How did Le Pen get so much support?
How did Meloni get so much support?
How did Erdogan get so much support?
How did Orban get so much support?
How did Netanyahu get so much support?
How did Wilders get so much support?
Awful leaders with popular support are by no means unique to the USA.
Foreign-funded propaganda masquerading as legitimate news and foreign-funded legislators have a LOT to do with this, as well as manipulated social media.
If it were still illegal for a media outlet to call itself news without holding itself to journalistic standards, we would not be having nearly the problems in the US we are having today. "Divided we fall," and so it is.
And if you look around, that was also the case with Brexit in 2016, and with the rise of other far-right demagogues around the world since then.
Weird flex.