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appleannie1

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41. That occurred the day after the fiasco aboard a Navy ship.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:30 PM
Oct 29

- Trump tries to explain water to the Navy — then wanders off while meeting Japan’s Prime Minister. The same people who called Biden “senile” are dead silent now. It was supposed to be a show of strength: the commander-in-chief aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, surrounded by sailors and flags. Instead, it was a brainfart in slow motion.
Trump spent nearly twenty minutes rambling about magnets.
Not defense strategy, not China, not even veterans — magnets.
“You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets — I don’t know what’s going to happen,” he told the troops aboard the USS George Washington, before declaring that he’d sign an executive order to bring back “steam-powered catapults” and “hydraulic elevators.”
At one point, he actually polled the audience: “Who prefers magnets? Who prefers hydraulics?”
Sailors looked at each other in disbelief. Some laughed nervously.
It was the kind of moment that would have dominated every front page — if Joe Biden had done it.
But Trump wasn’t done.
The next morning, during a welcoming ceremony in Tokyo, he seemed to lose track of where he was and walked away from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi mid-procession.
Cameras captured the awkward scene as a Secret Service agent gently redirected him back.
No one shouted about it on Fox News. No pundits demanded a cognitive test.
No endless cable loops calling it proof of decline.
Yet just months ago, the same people mocked Biden for tripping on a sandbag.
This isn’t about a stumble or a gaffe.This was a sitting president unraveling in real time — confusing basic technology, slurring through half-finished thoughts, and wandering off during a diplomatic event.
Trump has insisted he “aced” a mental exam that asked him to identify animals like elephants and giraffes.
Now, by his own admission, he’s taken another one — an MRI and a “very hard aptitude test” involving those same questions doctors use to check for dementia.
It’s not hard to see why.
The right spent years convincing voters that Biden’s age made him unfit for office. But what we’re watching with Trump isn’t age — it’s deterioration.
He isn’t just forgetting words; he’s forgetting reality.
A president who thinks water destroys magnets, who confuses himself mid-sentence, who loses his bearings beside a foreign leader — that’s not a punchline.
That’s a crisis.

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Yeah...that's the stable genius. PittBlue Oct 29 #1
My husband showed me this last night JustAnotherGen Oct 29 #2
DO not forget that MAGA LOVES DJTJ... many as much as the Orange menace himself... (n/t) Moostache Oct 29 #4
Oh - I know JustAnotherGen Oct 29 #7
Maybe we can buy off Vance with some fine Italian leather sofas? (n/t) Moostache Oct 29 #12
n/s JustAnotherGen Oct 29 #52
JD rso Oct 29 #54
MAGA is liking Trump less and less as young MAGA Republicans are anti war womanofthehills Oct 29 #62
We all say Trump this, and Trump that......... popsdenver Oct 29 #31
magapubs JustAnotherGen Oct 29 #53
If he was really sick wouldn't he have found Tree Lady Oct 29 #35
Cheney had an altogether different problem not related to acuity. BannonsLiver Oct 29 #43
The Devils spawn triumvirate wanted couch fucker as VP aeromanKC Oct 29 #38
I have been living with my father's progressive dementia and its heart-breaking... Moostache Oct 29 #3
Hugs to you and your family and father. Duncanpup Oct 29 #5
Thank you. It's appreciated. Moostache Oct 29 #10
can't find his own way barbtries Oct 29 #6
Hugs to you and family and you. Duncanpup Oct 29 #8
right back at ya barbtries Oct 29 #19
Trump Best in Show leftstreet Oct 29 #9
OK, that one made me LOL until I cried. lapfog_1 Oct 29 #24
right? leftstreet Oct 29 #32
Melania??? BaronChocula Oct 29 #46
He knows he can't hide it any longer. BigmanPigman Oct 29 #11
"I thought he LOVED 'Merica?'....at least when he dry humped the American flag democratsruletheday Oct 29 #49
And he will get worse and more obvious Wednesdays Oct 29 #13
And anyone watching... 2naSalit Oct 29 #14
This was the point Jilly_in_VA Oct 29 #15
Too bad the republicans allow him to travel and/or speak vapor2 Oct 29 #16
I'll drink to their bad judgment BaronChocula Oct 29 #47
Trump needs to be in a nursing home, not the Oval Office. Initech Oct 29 #17
I can only hope it is cruel. N/T ColoringFool Oct 29 #42
It's the reason they keep sending him out of the country. Raven123 Oct 29 #18
Go nuts, Grim Reaper Blue Owl Oct 29 #20
I cannot help but notice that our media isn't one bit concerned with his OBVIOUS health issues AStern Oct 29 #21
They're not even a little bit concerned, all of the sudden. BannonsLiver Oct 29 #45
Jet lag and no access to his mother's little helper Aviation Pro Oct 29 #22
Yes it's definitely jet-lag FakeNoose Oct 29 #28
I really would love to know Mr. Evil Oct 29 #23
His team probably went over the routine with OM 15 times. Bozvotros Oct 29 #25
But he identified a tiger and a giraffe on a cognitive test LW1977 Oct 29 #26
The mind is a mysterious thing when well. When it starts to change there is no end to the mystery. twodogsbarking Oct 29 #27
Tang the Conqueror Ponietz Oct 29 #29
Imagine if Joe did this Diamond_Dog Oct 29 #30
Pretty sure Jake Tapper has a second book in the works /s durablend Oct 29 #59
So what's the bad news? Ray Bruns Oct 29 #33
He probably stay out of the dementia ward for the next 1,179 days. CentralMass Oct 29 #37
I Wouldn't Mind If He.... ColoringFool Oct 29 #44
WOW! Sundowning and jet lag don't mix. Buddyzbuddy Oct 29 #34
Not only can't he walk normally Farmer-Rick Oct 29 #36
Maybe he'll just fucking die. Orrex Oct 29 #39
If only... ShazzieB Oct 29 #56
My mother had dementia. Not Alzheimer's, but very similar, and can only be differentiated by autopsy. BobTheSubgenius Oct 29 #40
"...It's what robs the good times from your mind." Wednesdays Oct 29 #64
That occurred the day after the fiasco aboard a Navy ship. appleannie1 Oct 29 #41
+1 leftstreet Oct 29 #55
As far as I know, despite his occasional stutter, Biden is still sharp as a tack. mwmisses4289 Oct 29 #60
Old guy, ujnfamiliar place, not popping my cork over this one Warpy Oct 29 #48
He was showing signs of it in his first term. mwmisses4289 Oct 29 #61
Yes, his language ability was declining, his vocabularly shrinking Warpy Oct 29 #63
Wow, and that's the self-proclaimed tough guy Miami Blue Oct 29 #50
He's far healthier than he has any right to be bif Oct 29 #51
Evil But Pathetic DET Oct 29 #57
Heard on Stephanie Miller's show: Zorro Oct 29 #58
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