Trump stuns CNN with flip flop in only 45 minutes! Here's our Commander-in-Chief everybody...

[surfered]

Donald Trump:

12:19 p.m.: We want them to come and help us with the Strait.

12:21 p.m.: “If we ever needed help, they won’t be there for us. I’ve just known that for a long period of time.

12:53 p.m.: We have some that are really enthusiastic. They’re coming already.

12:54 p.m.: This is a need, need would be one of the big boys.

12:55 p.m.: If we need their mine boats or if we need anything, any piece of apparatus that they may have because of a situation that they have, they should be jumping to help us.

12:56 p.m.: My attitude is, we don’t need anybody. We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don’t need them.”

Op: Are you not reassured?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-supercut-donald-trump-contradictions_n_69b8fa88e4b09a39145e7e89

[Johonny]

1. He's gone full fucking nuts

How much longer do they pretend and cover up his clear mental decline to crazy fucking nutball?

[Walleye]

2. Of course, they are covering up his mental decline, because that's what they accuse us of doing with Biden.

We know every accusation is a confession so they’re doing what they accuse us of. It’s that simple. Biden did not have a mental decline and go fucking nuts like this guy did.

[ananda]

11. Practically everyone has some cognitive decline with old age.

I know I do, and I don't have dementia and do just fine.

Even the best bridge player at the club said she couldn't
remember names like she used to.

But Trump is a whole different kettle of pond scum, which
is what his brain looks like these days.

[Walleye]

12. My auntie Alice played contract bridge up until the age of 98, in tournaments she won

Slowing down a little it’s not the same as having your brains all scrambled. And Trump never had any real brains to begin with.

[ananda]

14. Cool beans!

[murielm99]

23. I have trouble with names and sometimes

with selected words. If I just relax and go on with things, the words come to me. I repeat them a few times to set them in my 77 year old brain. That is not dementia. It is normal cognitive decline, just like yours.

[ananda]

38. Peas in a pod.

Also, there's always the internet.

It's like a second memory to me.

[Attilatheblond]

21. Back before Reagan closed all the CA state mental health care hospitals, I got to spend a day during a psych class trip

Our class was split up into small groups that got put into LOCKED WARDS to 'mingle' with the patients. Yeah, those people were certified insane and danger to themselves and others. Got to observe for hours, and speak to several one-on-one.

Frankly, every single one of them made more sense that Donald J. Trump does these days. Even the chap who really though he was God was more reasonable that the current POTUS.

Patients who were certified insane and dangerous by professionals. But in that locked ward, I felt pretty safe because I knew the people there were fairly well medicated and VERY well supervised. They were being 'treated' as best as could be, but were in a situation where they, and others, were basically safe.

Scars the daylights outta me knowing that the guy calling the shots for our military powers is completely mad and unsupervised.

[Jilly_in_VA]

32. I had the same experience in Tennessee

The patient I was assigned to was an enormous (300+ lb and tall) woman who scared me (125 lbs dripping wet and 5'2) to death on first meeting but who I grew to like over the 2+ weeks I was there. She made a lot of sense, and a hell of a lot more than Shitler does on his best days. She'd just had a rough life and while I was there they started her on lithium--wow, what a change! I kind of enjoyed my experience there but still put psych nursing at the bottom of my list, along with NICU, when job hunting. Just not for me!

[Swede]

3. That's how a strong, stable genius does things.

They're not coming Donnie. You insulted them, bullied them. Article 5 of the NATO alliance comes in when a member country comes under attack. YOU fucking started this war, so too bad, so sad.

[Botany]

8. Germany's Minister of Defense

"This is not our war, we have not started it."

[Baitball Blogger]

4. The world is not coming to help him, because the world knows he is

an aberration in history.

[FakeNoose]

17. He has slapped everyone of our former Allies in the face

... what with insults, mean tweets, tariffs, and every other way.

We have no Allies, why should they help us ... or help Chump ... on this sick, self-destructive delusion? Our former Allies will rejoice when he goes down.

[lastlib]

25. In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, it was The Mule.......

...that was the aberration. In OUR story, it's an ass---Donald J. tRump.

[Blues Heron]

5. It's time to end this clusterfuck named Trump, everybody knows this can't continue. It will just keep getting worse

[mountain grammy]

6. madman

[struggle4progress]

7. Can't remember from one minute to the next what he's just said

[PatSeg]

9. In Trump's world there is no "we"

Go through his rambling rhetoric and replace "we" with "I" and you get a much clearer picture of what he really means. Especially that last comment:

"My attitude is, I don’t need anybody. I am the strongest man in the world. I have the strongest military by far in the world. I don’t need them.”

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. As I said in another thread

After today I don't want to hear about Bidens supposed decline. Joe wasn't crazy like this guy is.

[PatSeg]

42. Hopefully the day will come

when Biden gets the credit he deserves. He was treated so unjustly by so many, especially the media and even many in his own party.

[Javaman]

10. ramblings of a syphalitic mind nt

[ShazzieB]

41. Not syphilis, dementia.

Most likely frontotemporal dementia.

I wish this rumor would die already. Could he have contracted syphilis at some point? Sure, but the idea that he could go undiagnosed and untreated long enough to reach the tertiary stage makes no sense. That's just not a thing on this day and age, at least not for a rich guy in a developed country. The disease has been 100% curable with penicillin for Trump's entire lifetime, and he has had access to top notch medical care since he took his first breath.

Dementia, along with his malignant narcissism, explains everything. There's no need to go looking for anything else

[617Blue]

13. Then he said - "Maybe we shouldn't even be there"

[TheRickles]

15. And I'm guessing that no one called him on it. Just a wild guess....

[llmart]

27. And that's the reason he's been allowed to pull all the shit he has.

CNN is guilty of fawning all over him even back in his first go-round when they waited with bated breath and an empty podium for a half-hour or so until he deigned to come out to speak.

[GiqueCee]

16. The cheese...

... done slid off his cracker. All this bullshit from the man that recalled ALL our minesweepers and put 'em in dry dock. Nice work, bright boy.

[Grim Chieftain]

18. I honestly don't know what it would take at this point to invoke the 25th Amendment

Every single day he demonstrates that he is seriously mentally ill. He's even had people killed for his lies in this ill begotten war on Iran. Dear God - what more would it take?

By the way, with deep respect, I encourage everyone who attends the "No Kings" protest on the 28th to carry signs that say "25th Amendment Now".

Hugs to you all, DU friends. Together we will get through this.

[RetiredParatrooper]

28. The 25th will not remove him

There is only one way.

[Grim Chieftain]

29. Then why is there a 25th Amendment?

[Jilly_in_VA]

33. What it would take

is a Democratic majority in BOTH houses. Doesn't look likely, although I'm pretty sure we'll take the House in November.

[RetiredParatrooper]

44. Yes

Majority in the House, Supermajority in the Senate. The 25A doesn't actually remove a President from office.

It's odd that so many people are hanging their hat on the 25A, when the people who need to invoke it have a vested interest in not doing so.

[BattleRow]

19. Double speak from forked tongue.

[Grammy23]

20. Keep in mind ....

Not only does he exhibit clear signs of cognitive decline, but he has been pretty reliably described as suffering from Malignant Narcissism. And goodness knows what other maladies are hidden under that mop he calls his hair. Anyone with a few brain cells and a decent working memory knows that behavior with tRump is changing over time. There are countless videos and interviews with him over decades that show a definite difference in how he spoke and behaved in the past. The filter that kept him sounding more sane has now eroded so he cannot hide his decline. He meanders, gets distracted and contradicts himself often within minutes of making a statement.

It was one thing when he was Donald Trump, businessman and real estate investor to be impulsive and incoherent. But now that he is President of the United States, we are in a whole other territory, We are finding out how different as he stumbles from one crisis and ill timed statement or decision to the next. I have no idea if we can recover from this terrible event of having a man like Trump in charge of so much of our lives as a nation. Admittedly even our day to day personal lives are impacted by his rash and incoherent behavior.

Someone with the knowledge and authority should have put a stop to his presidency long ago. But they did not step up to save us and our country. How much longer this is allowed to continue is the big question. And even bigger? What will follow once he is removed, dies or his term grinds to a stop?

[BradBo]

22. Trumps got himself in a pickle.

[NoMoreRepugs]

24. How scary is it that the Magaloons with all their guns believe this is their messiah?

[AZ8theist]

43. MAGATS equal MORONS

[Ritabert]

26. He flipped faster than the cook at IHOP

[eShirl]

30. so he's saying he's only asking for help to be manipulative, not because he actually needs their help

so why should they help

[surfered]

34. It would be more fun, watching Trump drive the Republican Party over the cliff, if we weren't in the back seat with him!

[pat_k]

35. Of course they aren't "helping" with your war of aggression. It's an f-ing DEFENSIVE alliance.

An alliance originally put in place to defend against RUSSIA, the war criminal country you bend over backwards for at every turn.

[wiggs]

36. Whose idea is it to create more confidence and support by having TSF appear on TV every day? Can't they tell it

isn't helping?

At some point, MSM will stop discussing his strategies, policies and 'mistakes' and will start realizing the constant blunders are because he isn't coherent, wise, knowledgable, patriotic, aware, self-aware, honorable, honest. He comes from a mental and emotional place where good decisions are literally not feasible.

ETTD

[Boomerproud]

37. Email me when they stop covering his every utterance as breaking news.

Maybe I'll watch.

[cab67]

39. I am not entertained, either.

[James48]

40. Every U.S. Navy ship afloat can be a Mine Detector.

Once, anyway.