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struggle4progress

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Sat May 24, 2025, 04:04 PM May 24

rump dementia fears as brain misfires [View all]

Story by Yelena Mandenberg & Jack Hobbs • 3d

... As Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they were financing a $175 billion project to build a missile defense system, the U.S. President's word choices sparked new dementia fears.

After announcing the plan to build a $175 billion 'Golden Dome' to press in the White House's Oval Office on Thursday, Trump directed everyone to look at the portraits around his desk. He named the first two Presidents no problem, but then began to stutter when he got to Monroe.

"That's Monroe from the ... uh ... Monroe docu... document," Trump finally said. Unlike Joe Biden, who always had a stutter, the sudden inability to recall elementary school facts about the Monroe Doctrine has sparked new fears of his mental state online. It comes just days after Trump was branded the "dumbest president ever" ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-dementia-fears-as-brain-misfires-in-worrying-oval-office-announcement/ar-AA1F9vGR

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rump dementia fears as brain misfires [View all] struggle4progress May 24 OP
And Maga Maga loves the incoherent shit that comes out of his keyhole Walleye May 24 #1
WTF. In an unbelievable showing of stupidity, Donald Trump admits he doesn't know where the Congo in Africa is: "many Celerity May 24 #2
not WHERE Skittles May 24 #3
Congo. I don't know where that is..... usedtobedemgurl May 24 #12
not WHERE Skittles May 24 #16
It's a dance Mossfern May 24 #18
*SNORT* Skittles May 24 #19
I cannot love this reply enough! usedtobedemgurl May 25 #21
It's painful to read bif May 24 #4
So why so many bdamomma May 24 #17
People knew NJCher Thursday #27
"And I gotta show you this here, the Magna Carta DavidDvorkin May 24 #5
Rick Wilson has an interesting take PJMcK May 24 #6
The felon's bdamomma May 24 #20
trump has dementia LetMyPeopleVote May 24 #7
he has "stage 9" dementia ParanoidAndroid May 24 #15
"It's almost as if Trump has cognitive deficiencies, which from what I hear on CNN is a major scandal." - MSNBC sop May 24 #8
Fears? How about blatant reality? SheltieLover May 24 #9
Doesn't matter. He could get down on his knees and lick the floor behind a toilet... harumph May 24 #10
All the chat about Biden is projection because malaise May 24 #11
This is a prime example of being so stupid, that it hurts! SWBTATTReg May 24 #13
I'm only surprised he didn't start raving about Marilyn Monroe. tanyev May 24 #14
😂😂 too funny 😂🤣 he's the Tickle May 25 #22
Buh bye RandiFan1290 Thursday #23
Here since 12/3/21, eh? PCIntern Thursday #24
Jake Tapper-STAT durablend Thursday #25
"A Demented NAZI Traitor Shall Lead Them" Kid Berwyn Thursday #26
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