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Trump calls Gavin Newsom ‘the President of the US’ while insulting his intelligence
(www.independent.co.uk)
So embarrassing. What a stupid turd
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Eh, there's a video in the article, I'm not convinced it wasn't just him changing tracks mid-sentence again.
But holy hell, listening to him talk, that man needs to be in a home. He is struggling to hold himself up and talk.
He said it like 6 times. That didn’t seem at all like he was changing tracks, to me at least.
Can you imagine being that elderly while trying to hold yourself up, talk, and keep your bowel movement inside?
I could see a very generous interpretation of that statement where "President of the United States" and "Gavin Newscum" were technically two separate thoughts, but trying to make sense of this moron is impossible so I'm just going to assume he said what everybody thinks he said and conclude that his brain is completely mush at this point.
I think a president should not have learning disabilities, OK?
Counterpoint:
Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!'
- Trump's professor at Wharton
And he was probably much much smarter then compared to now
Gavin Newsom often mixes up words and letters.
Donald Trump often accidentally and often deliberately mixes up facts and events.
Which would you prefer?
This child fucker speaks like a preteen.
No wonder conservatives identify with him.
I imagine one of those American movies where the aliens come from space, meeting humanity officially for the first time, and gets to meet Trump as the person we have selected as our leader.
That must be something.
That's insulting to preteens.
Nah preteens can and do grow out of it, just like toddlers grow out of shitting their pants, and baby's outgrow incoherent babbling
Most babies grow out of it. Some babies keep doing it well into their second term as president.
I was going to ask, "incoherent babbling or pants shitting?" But I realized the answer is Yes.
An actual baby POTUS would probably be an upgrade.
Trump sounds like predictive text autocompleting as you go.
I mean, he would agree: https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade
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.
a writer for Mad Magazine called Trump a “short fingered vulgarian”
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.
Even before trump I felt scummy being an American. Like the guys going to leave a permanent shit stain on this country. And it's not just him really... Like he really shows off what many Americans are like. It's engrained in our culture. I wish I had the money to become an expat.
I wish I had the money to become an expat.
Do you have any job qualifications that are in demand? That might open doors into other countries without needing a lot of cash up front.
I do not.
Sorry to hear it. I hope you find some way to get out of there soon.
I'm slowly working on it... But still if I get it... I'll be struggling to not be homeless in a new country.
It's just media control. Republicans (in general) do not watch anything outside of carefully crafted media.
I don’t like that I’m in this comment.
Ok, grandpa. Time for bed
Final nap would be preferable
More like a dirt nap.
Lol, I wish
He does that every day when he naps in public and shits his pants...
That's a soil nap.
Oh man, I'm glad our Commander In Chief doesn't have any learning disabilities...
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LOL....SOB (rethinks assumption of the basic goodness of humanity, SOB again)
From his mouth to God's ears