Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

All the things you describe are like lizard reflexes, but that doesn't mean he isn't actually going senile.

His whole slock is "whatever is the norm I'm against it", which the lazy and discontent lap up. The only pattern seem to be where he introduces a new chaos at the start of each week, probably after something he saw on TV or something someone uttered within earshot over the weekend.

I'd call it instinctual rather strategic thinking.

As I can't see inside his head [don't want to see the proof of TDS] I don't know for certain if Trump thinks that you have to to deconstruct to reconstruct but looking at the present year Project 2025 plan which he denies exists but which his followers are following faithfully, he is deconstructing the country known as the United States right around its citizens. It's been around now for almost 250 years but not much longer if Trump has his madness succeed. The proof is there for all to see on the streets of LA and California. He's given his spoken approval to his goon squad leader to arrest the elected governor of that state.

He doesn't seem to know what day it is! Someone should check his cognitive decline.

Stumbling on steps, not knowing what day it is, family history of dementia..... just sayin'

Seeing as these kinds of zingers and reactive moments are his whole political persona, he may be entirely lizard brain, and so senility wouldn't come into it.

Could Trump become senile in the next three years? I wouldn't say that's impossible. Is he senile right now? I see little evidence of it. When Biden was declining, his public appearances became more coached and limited, needing a teleprompter to deliver even relatively short speeches. Trump just got up and did a whole hour at Fort Bragg the other day, and he's always doing WH press briefings and those weird little Oval Office summits. This doesn't really fit with the idea of a man who has to be coached and cossetted in order to hide a rapidly deteriorating mental condition.

I think he's already senile. His personality and charisma just cover it up quite well and even if they didn't, corporate media and the Heritage Foundation have too much to gain by publicising his cognitive decline. In other words, whether or not he's senile doesn't matter. Project 2025 is going ahead and if Trump dies, Vance is there to take over.

Actual senility, i.e. dementia, means a concerning and increasing inability to complete various basic mental tasks like remembering previously familiar places, people and things. Inability to do basic self care. A general confusion and inability to process the basic information of every day living, like knowing the time.

Once Biden was put in an unscripted scenario last June, his deterioration was glaringly obvious. At times, he failed to even string basic thoughts together and looked completely vacant afterward (thinking particularly of the 'we beat Medicaid' bit). I've seen that same vacant expression with relatives of my own, as I'm sure others here have where you can tell they're not all in there at that time. Haven't seen that with Trump yet.

Just a reminder folks.

Elon said the Epstein files contain damaging material for Trump....

Easy to forget that in the current maelstrom

what beach are the marines using in los angeles…? malibu…? are they going to have a couple of helicopters up a la apocolypse now playing wager with the volume turned to 11…

Did he? He was rabbiting on about cards and Zelenskyy not wearing a suit for what most people would assume are obvious reasons. Trump at his core is a racist, a bully and a con-man. The only reason I wasn't thinking about Trump's decline at the time was because I was disgusted at his behaviour.

I could offer my own examples of course from injecting bleach to Haitians eating dogs and cats to confusing Biden with Obama to talking about how we could see World War 2.

All his Oval office ambushes are prepared, with a supporting cast of grinning goons smiling manically behind Trump and throwing in unsubstantiated dogs at their victim.

No foreign representative other than netenyahu expects a warm oval office reception.

Trump's close relationship with Epstein is well documented. Of course a claim from Musk is not proof but it's not exactly detached from reality either.

He didn't say anything that wasn't already suspected / circulated in the public domain and has produced precisely no additional evidence. As it stands he may as well have accused him of the Kennedy assassination, the Great Train Robbery and being Lord Lucan in a rubber mask.