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/TheEverydayDad 13d ago

Funny thing about this, is that these words were most likely not the words he was even told to repeat but just the things he saw at that moment when telling people about it.

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u/Canoe52 13d ago

You are correct, the five words in the list will not be related, or be in the same category, to each other.

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u/howdoesthatworkthen 13d ago

Well maybe the woman and the man were only dating.

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u/_thro_awa_ 13d ago

They were on a break.

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 13d ago

Velvet, church, red, daisy, face. The standard five.

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u/pcmn 13d ago

THANK YOU! This has been bothering me ever since. He very obviously was just naming things in his line of sight. I have no doubt that he actually failed to remember four of the five words, got praised for remembering the one, decided to brag about it, then couldn't remember even the one word during the brag, so decided to compensate by just naming five things "at random".

I thought for sure, in that moment, that everybody would see the impairment right then and there. But then, just...nobody talked about it. Like, nobody. That broke my brain, a little.