Delusional thinking and lies are the only buffer that Trump has against reality. He repeats snippets of distorted thinking, such as "The President has immunity..." over and over. This becomes partially effective because it causes his supporters to essentially rehash the same lines, and this creates a sort of feedback loop. The loop allows him to then throw out his usual "people are saying..." lines, which in turn diminish any hidden insecurities he might have. A lie told often enough becomes the truth. The fact that he is constantly being portrayed as "the front runner" only serves to reinforce this. Further, Trump has never been held accountable for the words that fall out of his mouth.
I find the things that Trump says and does, that MAGA accepts as normal, reasonable and that make him the one they want again as president, because most sane people do find that Trump is acting absolutely bizarre and frightening. He has been full-on scary how his mind is failing him while campaigning.
He reminds me of my uncle when he had stage 5/6 dementia; during stage 5, he would often make mistakes about certain situations. This included confusing the past with the present. We would correct him and he would apologize and move on. This is when he stopped driving and we removed his shotgun from his home.
When he entered stage 6 things got wild. He couldn't be corrected and believed everything that his twisted mind came up with. The fun part is when he demanded that you act upon his demented stories. We're talking full-on shouting matches that we call the police to report all the stuff he believed were stolen from him; stuff he had 25 years ago and stuff he's never even owned. He insisted that we call the police for him because fortunately, he can no longer operate a phone. Not a cell phone either, just an old fashioned land line phone was too complicated for him.
My point is that it really looks like Trump is working on entering stage 6 dementia full time. This is usually when loving families keep the person out of the public eye because things start to get awkward, uncomfortable, and embarrassing. Unfortunately, Trump has no one that loves or respects him enough to keep him away from crowds and/or cameras. Everyone that surrounds him is financially supported by him and will ride the gravy train until it derails and explodes, especially his children.
I fear for the future of the United States and the world if Trump is elected. He'll prove that the people that believe that Biden is a bad president ain't seen nothing yet, if they ever see it at all.
To illustrate my point, on Friday, 1/19, a very confused Donald Trump claimed Nikki Haley was in charge of security at the Capitol the day of the insurrection. Here's Trump's quote:
"By the way, they never report the crowd on Jan. 6. You know Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. You know they — do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it."
"Because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security — we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, national guards, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don't want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people."
He often gets away with his mistakes and meltdowns, but this time, the way he said her name three times in a row, he was like a malfunctioning robot with dementia. And he still managed to mix their names up a fourth time. His base couldn't care less and Elis Stefanik pushed back on this report, likely trying to argue that Haley
was in charge that day!
We're watching, in real time, an elderly person's descent into dementia. If he weren't so dangerous, it would only be sad and pathetic.
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