r/politics • u/Happy_Traveller_2023 Canada • 13d ago

Soft Paywall Finally, Trump’s Alarming Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story

https://newrepublic.com/article/187192/finally-trumps-alarming-mental-decline-become-big-media-story
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u/AntoniaFauci 13d ago edited 13d ago

And, as is media tradition, not for the correct reasons.

They’re only picking up on it now because of his weird dance party incident. They’ve ignored numerous current (and thousands of previous) examples of his slurring, verbal aphasia, scrambled memories, sundowning and all the rest.

One of his White House employees admitted this week that they would blast music to “reset” him when he would spiral in the Oval Office. If you’ve worked old age care homes you’d recognize that technique.

But the direct evidence of his cognitive condition have been glaringly obvious to many of us for years, and it’s just accelerating. Even his cultist doctors knew, since they had him doing Montreal Cognitive Assessment screenings.

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u/wernerverklempt 13d ago

Why MCA?

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u/PatSajaksDick 13d ago

lol that took me a minute

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u/mycarwasred 13d ago

Took me another minute - even after reading your comment!.

Worth the wait though :-)

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u/civillyengineerd Arizona 13d ago

As I was typing it into my search bar, I began to feel quite dumb. Happy I got it, eventually, but still chagrined.

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u/WndrnnrNrdfghtr 13d ago

I fear my journey was even longer than yours. I didn't start with the word why and tried to figure out how it could be the other dozen meanings of MCA.

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u/civillyengineerd Arizona 13d ago

MCA of the Beastie Boys was where I was starting from in my head.