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Trump calls Gavin Newsom ‘the President of the US’ while insulting his intelligence
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Direct quote from the video:
“The president of the United States, Gavin Newscum admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia… everything about him is dumb.”
The way he says it doesn’t make it sound like he’s stating it in a possible future tense.
It also makes me think his entourage has selected Newsom as their top choice for controlled opposition.
I'd say it's more that Newsom has been publicly mocking Trump for a while.
Trump is a narcissist. In the 1980s a writer for Mad Magazine called Trump a "short fingered vulgarian". Trump is still obsessed with telling people that he doesn't have "small hands".
The narcissism is why Trump is obsessed with Newsom.
I'm almost completely convinced that Trump's entire team are fully enabling him in his dementia. Prefrontal Temporal Dementia makes a person more erratic, it removes filters, it messes with your ability to process language, but it doesn't initially impact memory.
This is a generalization of the dementia because it's an umbrella term for a dozen different types that all attack that region of the brain.
It was Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, in an article in Spy magazine.
That's what I get for relying on my own memory. I should look that shit up more often, especially in a comment talking about dementia. It's not a good look.
That's a fair point. It could just be incompetence. It's concerning that it's hard to tell the difference.
This sounds like his normal word salad. He'll just interject with the topic instead of pausing. But man, listening to him snort and fumble through his words trying to throw shade about dyslexia is just...
It looks bad out of context. He probably shouldn't have changed it mid-sentence.