Psychiatrists, psychologists, reporters, and just about any person who isn't MAGA has seen a sharp decline in Trump's mind to deal with or grasp anything. We see it every day. We read it every day in his Truth Social posts. You can read his remarks, speeches, press gaggles, Oval Office Q&A, interviews, everything on RollCall. When you read the transcripts of what he says, it's easy to figure out his brain is not working right.
After Trump's speech at West Point, Rep. Jasmine Crockett called on her Republican colleagues to seriously look into Trump's mental fitness.
Just today, at the Q&A, after swearing in Jeanine Pirro and getting angry about TACO - Trump Always Chickens Out, he couldn't keep track of things from one second to the next. It was brought home in a question about student visas.
Reporter: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign student visas?
Trump: On what?
Reporter: For the student visa. Yesterday was the -—
Trump: For the French?
Reporters together: Foreign. Foreign.
Reporter: All the foreign students.
Trump: Oh, for the foreign visas. What are you referring --- foreign visas for what? Are you talking about colleges? Okay, you're off of Israel. Now you're talking about colleges, right? Okay, well, we're gonna see.
Then he started attacking Harvard.
Right after Pirro's swearing in, he mentioned again about Putin "tapping" him along in negotiations.
He was asked about Gaza and food deliveries and then immediately went into how terrible Oct. 7th was and asked Steve Witkoff to fill in the blanks.
He rambled on for 2 minutes on the Big Beautiful Bill, then, wham, it's all about 21 million illegal immigrants. After a bit he's back to the bill and how the Democrats want a 65% tax increase, which he says will happen if the BBB doesn't pass. Nuts. Bonkers.
Then he got TACO'ed.
When asked about Putin he claims again that the Ukraine War and Gaza would never have happened if he were president at the time. Then he flips into how embarrassing Afghanistan was. And then it's how there would have been no inflation because of no energy costs. Groceries and eggs.
When asked about why he hadn't put new sanctions on Russia, all of a sudden it's Putin's war, it's Zelenskyy's war, it's Biden's War. Never his. He talks about 5,000 people dying a week and then, boom, it's about his Saudi Arabian trip.
When asked about what's happening with TikTok, he says he won 37% of the young people, no Republicans ever won 37%, and then there's Charlie Kirk and the 37% and young people all mishmashed together.
He was talking about Iran and Netanyahu and suddenly he was saying:
Trump: We can blow up whatever we want, but nobody getting killed. We can blow up a lab, but nobody's going to be in the lab, as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up, right?
Then came the student visa mishmashed brain Trump garble.
He goes on for a minute or so about Harvard and the student visas and taking Harvard's money and giving it to trade schools and then he veers off into something totally different.
Trump: We don't want to see shopping centers exploding. We don't want to see the kind of riots that you had. And I'll tell you what, many of those students didn't go anywhere.
Reporter: Will you pardon the people that were accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer?
Trump: I'm going to look at it. I will take a look at it. It's been brought to my attention. I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job.
Why was Trump watching the trial? Didn't he have better things to do?
Then he rambles on about Harvard and how they're disrespecting America but that he wants Harvard to do well.
Trump: ... how could it be great when you have Harvard announced 2 weeks ago that they are going to teach remedial mathematics, remedial, meaning they're going to teach low grade mathematics, like 2 + 2 is four. How did these people get into Harvard if they can't do basic mathematics?... but Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are and they're getting their ass kicked.
Harvard does have a new Math course, but it's for helping students that lost out because of Covid-19 closings. It's not a remedial math course at all. It covers algebra, geometry, and quantitative reasoning. I'd love to see Trump pass the algebra test.
Just in 30 minutes, Trump's cognitive disability was shown to everybody. The student visas garble has been detailed by others, but reading the whole transcript, there was a lot more wrong with Trump. The continuing use of repetitious talking points to fill spaces where the brain isn't working. Talking about one thing and then veering off into ya-ya land with no transition. Him verbally saying that it was Putin's, Zelenskyy's and Biden's War, and nothing to do with Trump, and that it would never have happened if he was president at the time, was from a Truth Social post he did the other day.
It's like he comes up with one thought, and uses it over and over and over again until even he knows he said it too many times. Maybe. I'm not even going to give him credit for that.
Trump just rambles on, and because people are smiling at him, he thinks he's speaking clearly and succinctly.
Trump will start at the drop of a hat and talk about mentally ill people coming through open borders. He's been saying this since 2015. He needs to look in a mirror and see his own decline.
It's never been more apparent that we need to use the 25th Amendment.
