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The former president repeatedly misspoke during a speech on Wednesday.

Speaking in Long Island on Wednesday, Donald Trump was as bombastic and boastful as ever—but also slurred his words on several occasions.

Trump stumbled over words like “migrants” and “Russia” and had trouble stringing sentences together. In another instance, Trump said he was “greater even than Elvis” because unlike the King, he doesn’t have a guitar—a riff that has increasingly featured in his speeches.

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

Maybe he should drop out of the race if he's unfit to run a country. Everyone's saying it.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

He could take a dump on stage and they wouldn't care. As long as he hates the right people. I have a ton of "I'm voting for the felon" signs in my area. I was baffled that anyone a supported him openly after that shit show of a debate. I'd be embarrassed.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Spoiler alert: None of them are watching. All they get is the chosen sound bites.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 4 points 33 minutes ago

They'd be stepping all over each other to get up on that stage and roll around in it before that dump even had a chance to cool.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Trump also promoted his wife Melania Trump’s new memoir—but admitted that he hadn’t read it and that he doesn’t know what she wrote about him, telling the crowd, “If she says bad things about me, I’ll call you all up and I’ll say, don’t buy it, get rid of it.”

Yeah, he hasn’t read it.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

He very probably doesn't read books at all. I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't even read his own book.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago

He definitely doesn’t read books at all.

[–] calabast@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

I really can't imagine Trump sitting in a chair, holding a book and quietly reading it.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 41 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

He’s about the same shape of Elvis at the end

— also probably around the same amount of amphetamine usage

— the hair is vaguely similar

— there’s a fairly decent chance Trump could die while on the toilet like Elvis

However, Trump can’t sing, can’t play guitar and is the worst dancer since Karl Rove.

[–] srasmus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Most people actually die on the toilet.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

He likes his women in the same age group, can't forget that.

[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 72 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

But does it matter? His boot-lickers would follow him into a burning inferno.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 47 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Unfortunately, this seems to already be happening. The inferno they're making is the United States.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

His followers don't matter, they are a lost cause.

People who vote party lines or don't really pay attention might be disuaded from voting for him if they are teminded often enough that his cognitive decline might be a reason to not vote for him. Mainly the unaffiliated voters who don't think about things too much and Republicans who want competent evil candidates.

The cognitive issues might be a dealbreaker for those voters.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

They should

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Are we taking donations for kindling? I can canvas for such a noble cause.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Fucker's still got half the vote. Maybe we do deserve the punishment for being so stupid! History will repeat itself, and it looks like its happening soon.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Are you a doomer or did you just have a dumb moment here

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 56 minutes ago

Its getting harder to have hope. Don't wanna be all doom and gloom, but this is absolutely nuts the guy has 50%.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 3 hours ago

It's propaganda. People that choose to consume corporate media (even us here) are often duped by propagandists, but Fox and Newsmax are among the absolute worst literally fabricating a false reality for their viewers so that they feel victimized by their opposition and see Trump as their savior...

It's so fucking gross.

Obligatory: I FUCKING HATE PROPAGANDISTS!

[–] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 36 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Cognitive Decline? Everything Trump Has Ever Said During Political Existence.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

He's like one of those impossible staircases that goes downhill forever.

[–] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Boy got a brain that makes MC Escher be like "bro, what?"

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

While he has always had incoherent rambling since 2016. It is getting worse over time. Instead of switching aubjects at the end of sentences, he is changing midsentence and having trouble with simple words.

He didn't have issues with saying 'migrant' 8 years ago, but that word is throwing him for a loop regularly now.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

He's better at some times and not others, though. He wasn't this bad at the debates.

He kept saying that Biden must be in drugs to stay awake, it makes me wonder what kind of amphetamines Trump is taking.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I didn't watch the first debate, but he was absolutely having cognative issues at the one with Harris. He gets worse without interruptions.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago

All of them

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He also said Bagram was in Alaska during his town hall Tuesday. This was news to our armed forces who served in Afghanistan.

[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"I'm the greatest of all time. Maybe greater even than Elvis . Because Elvis had a guitar. I don't have a guitar. Elvis had a guitar. I don't have the privilege of a guitar."

that's it. he has my vote. /s

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

I like that the premise of this was that he called up his wife to tell her that.

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