The longer this goes on, the more I think that he isn’t even really aware of most of the things that are happening. The dementia concerns mixed with how weird his public talking points are just reinforce that. It’s like he’s got contacts both internal and external that are feeding him disinformation that he’s not cognitively capable of sorting out from reality.
He seems to flip flop on important issues daily based on who the last person he spoke with was - not just soft promises he made to that person, but hard policy adjustments from day to day. Ukraine and Russia are examples of this; one day, he seems like he’s sucking Putin’s dick, the next day he’s talking about how awful he is.
Other people in his administration seem very much to be the ones in charge some portion of the time, and that could just be them failing to put the masks on before public appearances.
There was also a weird sound bite during one of the national guard deployment discussions, where he was questioned about the supposed riots he was sending them to quell, and he said something to the effect of, “Is what I’m seeing on TV different from what’s happening in reality?” - made me seriously wonder if he’s being shown footage of some riot somewhere and told that it’s a US state rioting against ICE.
I don’t know, the whole situation is really weird. I’m fully on board with believing he’s just evil, and I think at his core, he is, but I also think he’s being manipulated. Maybe it’s just because I’d find this easier to cope with in some minute way if it was a case of elder abuse in the White House, rather than… whatever is actually happening right now.
he said something to the effect of, “Is what I’m seeing on TV different from what’s happening in reality?” - made me seriously wonder if he’s being shown footage of some riot somewhere and told that it’s a US state rioting against ICE.
I thought it was confirmed that the reason he wanted to send military was because Fox News said there were riots and showing video from 2020.
So, yeah, Fox News is lying and Trump, like all his supporters, is believing it.
The longer this goes on, the more I think that he isn’t even really aware of most of the things that are happening. The dementia concerns mixed with how weird his public talking points are just reinforce that. It’s like he’s got contacts both internal and external that are feeding him disinformation that he’s not cognitively capable of sorting out from reality.
He seems to flip flop on important issues daily based on who the last person he spoke with was - not just soft promises he made to that person, but hard policy adjustments from day to day. Ukraine and Russia are examples of this; one day, he seems like he’s sucking Putin’s dick, the next day he’s talking about how awful he is.
Other people in his administration seem very much to be the ones in charge some portion of the time, and that could just be them failing to put the masks on before public appearances.
There was also a weird sound bite during one of the national guard deployment discussions, where he was questioned about the supposed riots he was sending them to quell, and he said something to the effect of, “Is what I’m seeing on TV different from what’s happening in reality?” - made me seriously wonder if he’s being shown footage of some riot somewhere and told that it’s a US state rioting against ICE.
I don’t know, the whole situation is really weird. I’m fully on board with believing he’s just evil, and I think at his core, he is, but I also think he’s being manipulated. Maybe it’s just because I’d find this easier to cope with in some minute way if it was a case of elder abuse in the White House, rather than… whatever is actually happening right now.
I thought it was confirmed that the reason he wanted to send military was because Fox News said there were riots and showing video from 2020.
So, yeah, Fox News is lying and Trump, like all his supporters, is believing it.