A while ago I started a post in which I intended to tally each act of open corruption in which Trump or his henchmen engaged. I admit I’ve fallen down on the job, as there have been plenty since my last update, but I’m hoping to get back to work on it. This post is not about corruption. This post is about dementia, the point being to document the stuff the media largely ignores. I admit I’m coming to this late. There have been 238 days since the fascists took over, so there have been approximately 238 examples. They’ll keep coming, and I’ll try to document them, though I admit I may fall down on the job.
Here we go.
- This is an actual quote:
“That’s true actually.. That heavily reduced most favored nation’s cost. Americans can expect discounts. And as I said, it could be, in many cases, way over 100%. And as an example, one particular drug that’s hot, very hot, 654% on inhalers, COPD, and asthma, as well as certain diabetics, medications, they’re going to be averaging about 654% reduction in price. You believe that one? The Democrats will say, well, you should have gotten more. It’s crazy.” Yes, according to Trump he has reduced the costs of medications by more than 600%, and apparently he’s reduced some by 1,000%.
Now some might argue that this is not a sign of dementia, that it’s just another lie. But in the past Trump’s lies were such that there could have been a reality in which they were true. It is unlikely that there is any planet in the Universe in which a given quantity can be reduced by 1,000 percent and still be a positive number.
2. Who knows. Maybe there is such a thing as a “reverse bathtub”, something about which Trump is an expert. But unlike the folks who are merely deeply confused, referenced at the link, I see it as yet another sign of decline.
3. Multiple instances documented here at Hullabaloo, along with other outrages. Again, one might argue that he’s simply lying, just like he did before the dementia came on, but the nature of the lies is such that the dementia seems clear.
4. I’m sure this will be ignored by the New York Times, but you couldn’t ask for more proof of a deteriorating mental state. More at the link, but this quote conveys a lot of it:””But you always find something new, like, is he in good health?” the 79-year-old president said. “Biden was great, but is Trump in good health? I sit here, I do four news conferences a day, I ask questions from very intelligent lunatics, you people.” It goes on.