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Trump's Cognitive 'Decline' Suggests He 'Might Not Make It Through Four Years,' Republican Strategist Says

www.latintimes.com Trump's Cognitive 'Decline' Suggests He 'Might Not Make It Through Four Years,' Republican Strategist Says

A Republican strategist warned that President Donald Trump's accelerating "cognitive decline" could prevent him from completing his second term.

Come on stroke!

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I dont think it would solve the overall issue the US has, tho it would be not the worst thing to happen

That was the idea.
Trump dies in office, JD Vance is sworn is an President

I want him to fall into the pits of hell, but before he does, his scorched, cheeto dust fingers breech the surface one last time to curl around Vance's pant leg, dragging him down with him.

Oh great - President Vance then. 🤮🤮🤮
- At least you wont die of a temper tantrum global nuclear war.
  Congrats, this "titanic" we're on will now sink just a teeny tiny bit slower... (talking about climate-change denialism) 🫠
  
  I reckon Vance has the potential to be a lot more volatile and cruel than Trump. Trump's just a greedy, dumb arsehole that says whatever he thinks will make him a buck. Vance creeps me the fuck out, and his rich mates are no better.
  
  I wouldn’t put it past any of them. They’re all psycho incompetent batshit crazy afaik

That Billy Squier song is gonna get a shit ton of hits here soon I hope

They’ve been saying shit like this for years. Horrible people live far, far too long.
- Pretty sure I remember reading this exact headline during trump1. It's wishful thinking at best.
- Apparently the the trick to longevity is alcohol sobriety with a healthy variety of amphetamines and fast food.

Despite these concerns, the White House physician, Captain Sean Barbabella, issued a clean bill of health in April, stating Trump "exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health."
Oh, right. The same people who covered up how close to death Reagan was after a pedophile shot him.
"He's a guy who's subsisted off of McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and well done steaks for a very long time," he said. "He is not a healthy guy."
This is it for me. Well done steaks? Medium rare, ride or die. Let's go!
- well done steaks
  It's like he's good a being a monster in every capacity possible. Probably asks for the ketchup bottle at 4-star dining while he's at it.
- Regan, Trump, Biden, Trump.

Wait. You're telling me that people in their late 70s early 80s don't make for great presidents??
No way. 😐
- Very much depends on the individual.
  
  Some fare better than others. But anyone in the 70s to 80s is at such a higher risk of some event that takes them out of commission than usual and we have over 60 million people to look at, surely we don't have to settle for people that have a risk of disrupting the office.
  
  No it doesn't. At that age no one should be in a place of high power.
  
  It really doesn't at that age. Let the old folks rest, for fuck's sake.

My hope is that he has a massive stroke live on TV and then ends up wheelchair-bound unable to speak without the help of a Stephen Hawking style talk box and then deteriorates over the next few months and off to the golf course with ya Donny.
- I mean, Mitch McConnell had a stroke on camera and he's still proudly serving in the US Senate.
  https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-did-not-stroke-154054018.html
- I hope his head is removed from his shoulders by the gravitational force of the sharpened edge of a thin quadrangular sheet of metal, but to each their own I suppose.
  
  Technically a guillotine blade is a trapezoid, if you'd like to be specific.
- How would you know? Suddenly he's coherent and can stay in topic? Says sorry like once?
  
  "Y'know, Barrack kinda looked sharp in that tan suit."
  dies
- I hope he soon dies a painful slow death for what he said about Bidens cancer diagnosis:
  If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel sorry for him, because he’s vicious.
  
  Agreed! Whichever way he dies it need to be long and painful for him and enjoyable for us.
  
  I don't really care enough anymore to actively wish any of those things on him. I just wish him gone from the Oval Office. The particulars are someone else's problem.
- President Drooly has a great ring to it.
  
  I could definitely see him being wheeled out onto the stage and with his robot voice say “the deep state did this to me!” And then he shits himself.
- Stop, I can only get so erect!
- This scenario affords an opportunity for there to be a mausoleum, and therefore a shrine. I hope he spontaneously combusts just to scare the shit out of the nat-cs.
  
  I think, regardless of how, or when he dies, there will be shrines and monuments built by his supporters in much the same way as a cult. I can also see it turning out like Jamestown where his supporters drink the Kool-Aid and also I can see a Dalai Lama situation where his supporters believe his soul has inhabited The body of the new leader, thus opening the doors for a wave of new grifter and liars to control the new Trump cult.

Trump dying sounds good until you consider he'll be replaced by JD Vance
- JD Vance dying sounds good until you consider he'll be replaced by Mike Johnson.
  
  And Mike Johnson tells his son every time he cums
  
  I was curious how far down the line of succession you would have to go to find someone who would not be a catastrophically bad president. 11 positions down is the Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. She's a Hispanic woman who was one of 6 Republican house members who signed a pledge to respect the results of the 2024 election, the only Republican cosponsor of a pro- union bill, and opposes a national Bank on abortion or IVF. Far from Ideal but light years better than the rest of the fascists on the list
  
  just gather them all and let a single mortar shell loose
  
  Vance can pick anyone to be his VP I believe, so it likely wouldn't be Johnson
  
  Yeah, we're fucked.
- JD Vance doesn't have the following or the charisma to pull off the nonsense Trump does. MAGA doesn't work without Trump. Anytime MAGA has been in an election without Trump it fails pretty spectacularly.
  
  Maybe, but if he inherits a full on police state, he might not need charisma or followers any more.
  
  You only need a following and charisma to get elected, he would just be handed more power so that doesn't matter.
- I don't want Trump to die. I want him just in the edge of mental degradation so there's a constitutional crisis. GQP will hesitate to 24A him cause MAGA would revolt. It would be an extremely lame duck presidency.
  I want Trump to live long and quiet enough that he's forgotten.
  I want him to survive a Cat-5 hurricane that destroys Mar-a-Lago.
  I want him to drool uncontrollably in a wheelchair while they take down his name down from buildings and golf resorts and turn them into shelters for the homeless and asylum seekers.
  I want all his sons turn into Viserys III Targaryen, paupers and laughing stocks that people entertain out of pity, not respect.
  I want him to live a long life in interesting times.
  
  It would be an extremely lame duck presidency.
  It already is. Haven't you seen him sign those executive orders and it's immediately apparent he's never seen or read it before that moment? He doesn't have any clue what he's going to sign before they put the paper in front of him.
  Trump is in the White House for two reasons- make himself richer and avoid prosecution for his crimes. Everything else that's happening is being masterminded by someone else. Smart money is on Stephen Miller.
  
  I think they’d Weekend at Bernie’s him to pass the worst legislation you’ve ever heard of.
  If it’s unpopular Trump gets the blame and he’s too incapacitated and impotent to lash out at them.
  Basically what Trump accused the Biden admin of doing.
  
  Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain means." It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
  That sounds delightful.
  
  I’ll take “horrifically nauseous and hovering over a toilet forever and ever” for 400, Alex.
  
  Oh so you want the actual autopen presidency to continue
- JD Vance is garbage, buuut... he's just another horrible GOP person, really. The thing that made people afraid to resist Trump was his cult-like base. They've tried multiple successors, and no one has even come close to capturing the same unconditional love of this racist moron by those pieces of shit as Trump. If we as a country have a final chance we don't deserve, it's Trump dying from his beloved "hamberders"...
- "Trump is going to die any day now" is a thing people were posting in 2018. It's a thing people were posting about Vladimir Putin in 2018.
  It's all court gossip and click bait bullshit.
  
  There's a subreddit dedicated to telling you if Trump has died yet
- Let's hope it happens before the 2 year mark so it counts as a full first term for Vance
- The fewer shit stains the better. And while JD is pure evil, he doesn't have the cult of personality that Shitler does.
  
  That would be the main hope, that once Trump's "charisma" is taken out of the picture, MAGA might start to lose enthusiasm. But it would take some time for the MAGA momentum to wind down, and the authoritarians-in-waiting would be keen to consolidate power quickly and insulate themselves against the opinions of the masses. So then the next hope is that they all start fighting among themselves so hard that the damage any of them can do is limited.
- I'm not too sure. Sure, he's VP but he's also not that popular with MAGA. If Trump would go (in whatever way possible) I'm sure it'll lead to infighting.

Nothing will get him out of office other than death. That includes 2028.
- I don't know if even death will. Maybe he stops making public appearances for "national security reasons" and only communicates through video broadcasts. Anyone who notices something is slightly off about them, like frames where he has extra fingers or nonsense text on the papers on his desk is called a conspiracy theorist, and to shut up and celebrate the Dear Leader's 170th birthday.
  
  Anyone who notices something is slightly off about them, like frames where he has extra fingers or nonsense text on the papers on his desk is called a conspiracy theorist, and to shut up and celebrate the Dear Leader's 170th birthday.
  The year is 2117. Either...
  A: AI still can't generate video without a bunch of fucky artifacts.
  B: The Trump administration is still using janky AI from the 2020s, even though better options exist.
  Both sound plausible.
  
  nonsense text on the papers on his desk
  I mean this wouldn't necessarily indicate AI in this case
  
  Weekend at Donnie's
- Sadly, the grim reaper pulled the actress that played Houlihan on mash out of the claw machine instead of trump.
  
  Someone give him more quarters!
- I have a horrible feeling you're right

we might not make it through four years
- It’s a race. By the time he dies, will you still be able to afford a trip to shit on his grave?
  
  Worth putting it on the Klarna.

The problem is that he's always been a stupid, self-important blowhard that tells rambling, pointless stories, so his incoherence is less pronounced. Biden, for all his faults, was a great orator and debator, even around 2016 to 2018, so his drop-off in the last five years was a stark shift.

Stroke! Stroke! That or a McDouble widowmaker heartattack Supreme.
- This timeline would be so crazy if trump has a Reverse-Fetterman stroke.

I don't see how it could make any difference.
He's already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it's not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don't care (and likely don't even notice), since they're even dumber than he is.
And it's not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it's pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that's all as natural and automatic to him as breathing..
Really, there's just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it's more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can't see how any loss of it would matter much.

I mean, yeah? That's why they pushed Thiel's puppet as VP.

So, as expected, he will die without suffering the consequences of his actions.
Sounds about white.
American justice is the butt of a joke.
Assuming he's dead or leaves in 2028, America wasted 8 years on a felon rapist. 8 years of our lives with not just no progress, but regression. Means we'll see less progress and less benefits in our short lives. So fucking pathetic.
- Unless of course the working class wakes up and removes the traitorous filth from office in order to bring about a government for and by the people.
  The only way to remove the power billionaires are now flexing over us is to band together. When we do they have nothing but money, the people have the power. Just have to use it.
- 8 years of our lives with not just no progress, but regression
  Don't forget about the increasing amounts of permanent destruction. There's gonna be a lot of people killed, environmental damage, etc. that we can never get back even if Trump is replaced by a non-fascist and every one of his policies are immediately stopped.

Wish all you want that Trump preferably dies soon but it doesn't matter. He is merely the punching bag and front for the real rulers: the oligarchs. They will only prop up someone else as the fall guy, while they steal every fibre, life and soul of everything they touches.
I can't wait for corporate fascism! Enclave when?! /s
But seriously, America wants to speedrun to corporate fascism (Thiel and Musk are accelerationists after all). But even without this speed running, corpo-fascism is only the logical conclusion of America's deranged obsession and worshipping of capitalism.

Biden stayed on, Woodrow Wilson stayed on, Rotten Regean stayed on. I would imagine there was even more Presidents not medically competent to run the country.
Having your President medically incompetent to run America seems to be tradition.

Just look at some of his speeches from the last time he was president and you'll see the difference is night and day. Before it was just stupidity, but now it's so much worse and he can barely form a sentence compared to then. And for all the people saying "well, Biden was clearly in decline too and everyone tried to hide it." And you're probably right. But you know what? He's not the president right now. And if it was such a big deal back then it should be an even bigger deal now because we are still letting it happen.
- I feel like I notice more poor grammar from lots of people these days. Weird turns of phrase and all that. And my mind goes to COVID.
  But I’m not making excuses for him. Just, noticing a pattern? Maybe it’s social media, not COVID. Who knows!
  
  COVID, even in mild cases, has been linked to long term (up to a year was one study duration) cognitive loss.
- Honestly I'm pretty sure he was already in decline back then. If you dig up old interviews with him from the 80s/90s, he was still an egomaniacal dumbfuck but he was at least somewhat articulate. If you can stomach enough of the fucker to watch all 3 in a row you can pretty much watch his brain turn to soup.
  I genuinely suspect he was diagnosed with dementia around the time of that "man, person, woman, camera" incident. Usually when neuropsychological testing like that is done, they do several tests, not just one. One test that is typically given along with is the clock drawing test, which can be highly indicative of dementia. Given the everything about his personality, if he did not brag about drawing the best clock they'd ever seen...I would guess he had some pretty damn concerning results on that bit.

No matter what happens. No matter how much worse he gets. He will always, always, always say Biden was worse and that he is most smartest person in the history of the universe.

It's not like he's going to begin acting like an irrational idiot soon. Why would this change anything?

How many of us is he going to drag to hell with him?

Wow. Even the Republicans start noticing what normal people knew for years.
- As long as normal people care more about what happens halfway around the world more that what is happening in their own back yard...

I guess it'll be true eventually if you keep saying it every month.

Vance 2026. It’s not a good outcome but it’s the best I can hope for.

They'll just wheel him around like they did with Alzheimer's Reagan in the 80s. Anything to keep up doing the most evil shit they can think of without repercussions
- Throw some more leaves in the pool to keep him busy.

C'mon, Rick Wilson saying something mean about Trump isn't news. He's not changing any Republican minds, his Lincoln Project has been outside the tent for years.
- It's been outside the GOP tent but squarely inside the Dem tent.
  Wilson loves to tell Democrats that Republicans are going to suddenly and catastrophically collapse and then just hand power to the Dems on a plate. And all the Dems need to do is wait patiently for the right moment, doing nothing that might risk their opportune position.

I want it to happen live. Mid speech.

If Biden made it through four years, I have little doubt Trump will do so as well.
- Feinstein won elections win full blown 'I have no idea where I am' dementia so yeah, he'll be fine.
- Sweetie Trump has to make it through a total of 8 now, he already spent 4 years in decline

"as my 6yo just said, "Ooold Donald Bananas"
completely unrelated to this, but it fits.

On one paw, I would like Trump dead. On the other hand, if a 2nd American Civil War happens, I would like him to prosecute the Confederate's actions. Under his influence, every single thing about the Confederates would be driven by DUI.
It would be nice if fascism suffered a curbstomp that it could never recover from. A war would be bitter medicine, but much needed to save America from Thiel and company. So long as they stay rooted in American politics, our rights and freedoms will be lost.

"Trumps cognitive decline..."
Yeah, reason numbers 576,432 that he should never have even been on the ballet
- Sorry for the stolen slop.
  
  Worth

The guy that thinks the annotated photo of a dude's knuckles isn't annotated might have a cognitive issue? No way!!

Someone get Jake Tapper!
- I don't think a blowie would help right now.

Someone shoot me a message when someone decides to do something about it.
- You had me at shoot.
  
  If that 19 year old kid had better aim, we wouldn't be in this situation. The other day I saw a guy in a coffee shop wearing a tshirt with a picture of Trump the day he was "shot" with his hand in the air. I wanted to comment, "Nice shirt. That was a messed up day. What was the name of the guy that died that day?"
  I guarantee this mother fucker has not a clue who Corey Comperatore is and they don't give a shit either.

if the republicans are willing to wheel out congress members in their 80s who live in assisted living conditions and are deep into the throws of dimentia to pass bills.
they are going to shove a broom stick up his ass after he dies and work him like a puppet until his skin rots off. even then they might duct tape him back together for another "red wave"

We pay for his health care, better quality than most millionaires could dream of. His team will keep him so full of drugs, and so many secret surgeries, he will live into his 80s. His brain will be last week's taco meat, but he will live.

I'm NOT a Snowflake and NEITHER is Trump but that man NEEDS to be DEPORTED because that's a Mean Thing to SAY!
- Your snark is coming right along. For inspiration, Google the great "Ghost Of Eustace Tilley." The master snarkster of the whole damn intertubes.

Make the "four" a "one" and then we're talking.

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