Another campaign stop means more cognitive warning signs for Donald Trump as the former president mixed up the words “later” and “ma’am” and slurred his speech in South Carolina.
Video of Trump confusing the words after and ma’am:
Trump, slurs and glitches: Three years ma’am, ma’am, ma’am. How about that. He goes. She goes pic.twitter.com/m2TH5jRuej
— Biden-Harris Headquarters (@BidenHQ) February 23, 2024
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Trump made a mistake and showed the world that he now has to read his remarks from a teleprompter by accidentally reading the prompter signals that are for him:
A confused Trump refers to himself in the third person as he reads his teleprompter: Yes oh yes and quickly says President Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/LWdsS7gZRe
— Biden-Harris Headquarters (@BidenHQ) February 23, 2024
Donald Trump now can’t read his teleprompter properly, and when Trump does get a sentence out, it’s something crazy, like suggesting that Nikki Haley is a Democratic plant in the Republican primary:
Trump says Nikki Haley is working for Democrats: “She’s working for Democratic donors, and all she’s trying to do is inflict pain on us so they can win and November.” pic.twitter.com/EnEb0ywQNB
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) February 23, 2024
You won’t see articles in the New York Times about how Trump is in such steep decline that even his rallies have to be written for him, or his slurring words, or the fact that he’s confusing basic words.
It would be shocking if Trump debated President Biden in the fall, because if this declining version of Trump were to appear before the American people on live television for two hours, he would quickly be exposed.
The media is helping Trump hide his cognitive decline by not talking about it, but it is present in all his speeches and appearances, and eventually even the corporate press that is working to bring him back to the White House will no longer be able to ignore it.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a member of the White House press pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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