Donald Trump spoke at West Point’s graduation on Saturday. His appearance at the graduation ceremony was entirely gratuitous – West Point students/cadets had been sent home in March, which is when all schools, colleges and universities closed. The cadets had to return to West Point two weeks ago and stay in quarantine in their dorm rooms ahead of Trump’s speech. He’s that much of an idiot narcissist. When he was speaking yesterday, this happened:
Trump still hasn't totally figured out how to drink water pic.twitter.com/IO8CDXmD9i
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 13, 2020
Yet another moment where Donald Trump seems physically incapable of sipping from a glass of water with one hand. He’s done this several times, but this is the first time – ?? – where we can see the shakiness of his right hand, how he seemingly cannot lift it or angle it a certain way. People are obviously saying that Trump had a stroke at some point, which would make sense. Not to be a contrarian – and I honestly DGAF – but there are other possibilities too. He could have old bunker-baby/chickensh-t draft dodger injuries involving his shoulder, arm, hand or wrist. Perhaps he pinched a nerve downing his tenth cheeseburger on Friday. We just don’t know.
Meanwhile, there were some other pieces of news. Trump had scheduled his first big Nazi rally in three months for Juneteenth in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it was becoming a huge deal. Anti-Nazi rallies were being planned in concert with the Juneteeth MAGA sh-t. But then Trump changed the date – it will be held on June 20th, one day later. I imagine there will still be counter-demonstrations on Saturday.
We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2020
In addition to that announcement, he and his administration announced that they will be rolling back ACA/Obamacare protections for transgender people, and they would make the official government policy that sex is defined by biology. It means that insurance companies can deny coverage and services to transgender people. He did this during Pride Month, on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre. I’m sure this decision made at least one person happy.
Update: Here are the videos of Trump slurring his words yesterday and then walking *very carefully* down a ramp.
Trump descended a ramp extremely carefully at the end of his West Point speech today pic.twitter.com/uMG3KyB1V1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 13, 2020
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Again, the rollback announcement during Pride on the Pulse anniversary has Stephen Miller’s poisonous little fingertips all over it – it has all the earmarks of his cruelty.
The Tulsa fiasco is not a shock – I would not be surprised if that was the intention all along, to dog whistle to all his KKK followers and then feign surprise about not knowing what is was. The intent – to try and incite people to protest so they can send their goons in to escalate it and the have the police start gassing and beating people – is still the same.
And for him to say his “African-American” friends suggested that he change the date? Sure, Jan.
They’re also now having the RNC in Jacksonville (named after Andrew Jackson) on the 60th anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday, which took place IN JACKSONVILLE. These people stay racist.
Oh wow, something is definitely not right and I don’t mean in the usual way for him. The water and the walking down the ramp one step at a time was really strange.
Aomeone on Twitter posted symptoms of neurosyphilis.. fits to a tee. Someone is definitely wrong. Interesting how press won’t talk about his medical issues after hitting HRC over the head with hers. Is part two of the physical completed?
The walking is due to his 3 inch lifts he has in his shoes. It’s why he tilts forward and can’t walk very far. He such a narcissist, as if appearing taller makes him better. He’s all about image.
@chica1971 and @sankay – I’d never heard either of those things before, but both make a ton of sense!
Lifts shouldn’t make you lean forward like that though. I’ve walked in 6 inch heels with no lean
He has the symptoms of Frontotemporal Dementia. Even the leaning forward bit is a symptom.
Sadly, if an opponent of Trump exhibited these symptoms, Trump would go all in on mocking and belittling the person. Yet, no one says a word about how Trump is obviously impaired…both physically and mentally. Just for once, I wish some Democratic would be petty enough to mock Trump’s physical ailments instead of always taking the high road.
Agreed although I don’t think mocking is the way to go with it. It’s a genuine threat to national security. The man sits in the Oval. We have a right to know about his mental and physical impairments. The Democrats are wrong not to make an issue of his health bc it impacts not only us but the rest of the world as well. The Republicans have twice stuck us with an Oval Occupant who was mentally unfit. We need to insist on complete mental and physical evaluations for anyone who enters the primary.
This needs to trend. I remember during the campaign when Hillary had to be helped into a car. The right wing nuts were saying she was covering up an illness. Nope.
ETA: It was posted below that she had pneumonia. That video went viral.
He tweeted about this! He said the ramp was steep and that he “ran the last 10 feet.” Once again denying what our eyes can actually see.
When he said he “ran the last 10 feet”, he was just joking, he’s funny like that. He *obviously* meant to say he did the Unsteady Chicken Dance for the last 10 steps.
Seriously, he looks so proud of himself that he managed to get ALL THE WAY down that ramp. Had the same stupid self-satisfied look on his face that he had when he hugged/molested the flag. Meanwhile the military official near him nearly fell over himself trying to walk that unnaturally slow.
I honestly thought he was drugged so that he would stay on the speech someone wrote for him and not go off script screaming about his army. I figured the powers behind him didn’t want him to try and act like this was one of his racist rallies so they have him a couple of his favorite pills.
I do believe that he is a drug-addled mess in every possible way. Much like Hitler was on a daily drug cocktail – including methamphetamine – this evil psychopath is partially held together with drugs.
Some of his movements remind me of when my grandmother first developed Parkinson’s. Not a medical professional but just stating an observation.
And some of his movements remind me of my husband a couple of years into his Alzheimer’s.
Yeah he walks just like my dad did about three years into his Alzheimer’s. Also, the word grabbing and the inability to hold objects with one hand. There’s definitely something going on with his brain, whether Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s or something else.
On the Daily Fail a doctor from Yale stated that after viewing Trump at West Point he needs a brain scan.
No need for an expensive scan. I can tell you now they’ll only show a void.
Whatever is wrong with him, aside from his idiocy, it needs to hasten.
@AnnaKist “no need for an expensive scan…” Indeed 😀
I seriously doubt that they will find one! “Oh wait, maybe it’s that peanut down there…”
He reminds me of a stroke victim. Not just in his physical mannerisms, but in his speech patterns. My grand uncle had a stroke years ago and now, his speech is very…fluid, shall we say. He just kind of flows from one word to the next, like the thoughts are coming out as he thinks them, no punctuation or anything. It’s what I always think of when I hear Trump speak.
My grandfather died of Parkinson’s and, yep, this looks like the start of that. The tentativeness, the unsteady hands. If Trump doesn’t have something like that, I’ll be shocked.
Yeah, I don’t think Trump knows or cares where he is at any moment (my guess is he believes every group of people is a rally for him) but his advisors certainly knew the significance of going to Tulsa at this time, on this day. What, like Oklahoma needs a Trump rally? They were looking for a way to create outrage.
Of course this tweet is a classic of the style: no acknowledgement of the hurt inherent in the action, no responsibility for seemingly having no advisors smart enough to steer him away from this date in the first place, and a clear expectation of gratitude for changing it because his “African American friends” told him. There is a hundred percent chance he believes he is the one due an apology here.
Real talk: What if you guys vote him out in November and he refuses to give up the white house?
There is a really good article in the Atlantic that describes what will happen if he refuses to leave on Jan 21, 2021. Essentially, he stops being president at noon (or whatever time) and the military and the government here and abroad now serves Biden. He will be removed from the White House and potentially charged with trespassing. Biden and the military definitely have plans for this given that the probability it happens is not zero like with most other presidents. The article is really good if you can find it and it made me slightly less worried about that possibility. I think what is more concerning is his behavior from nov 2020 – Jan 2021. A lot of damage can and will be done then.
Thanks, Angie! I will seek that out. I worry that he has surrounded himself with supporters who will cling to him and not do the right thing, or that he will suppress voting so much that he might actually win.
Agreed Angie. I don’t think he (or rather Jarvanka) will risk the optic of him being hauled out of the WH on Jan 21st. However, I am terrified of the 11 weeks between the election and Biden’s inauguration. He will cause so much damage and he will definitely rile up his base. It’s going to be a scary time.
This is why, for me, the purple states in play are vital. We need to demonstrate a national, state, and local rejection of the core values of racism, xenophobia, and bigotry that have come to define the GOP. Then forcibly removing bunker baby from his bunker will not be a question of “rigged” elections but national security and the will of the people.
I’m trying to remain optimistic but our nation is a mess, and Atlanta is on fire. The attempts to prevent voting in major metros are going to be insane-KLB will call Kemp on his bullshit, but I’m worried about my state.
He won’t refuse to leave. Drumpf is a bully and all bully’s are cowards. He threatens and backs down. What he will do is engage in a Twitter frenzy claiming voter fraud, GOP and Dems were sabotaging him, his base was intimidated, on and on.
Exactly this. And honestly-there’s probably part of him that would be relieved not to deal anymore and take the constant (well deserved of course) criticism. I’m sure he would want to be back in his tacky gold apartment in NYC or in Florida playing golf.
Yes. No way he’s actually make a stand for himself, he’ll just play the victim and let others fight on his behalf.
He’ll get on a private jet and go to a country without an extradition treaty with the US. Someplace Vlad will set up for him.
The White House ushers will pack up all personal belongings and put them into moving vans precisely at noon while the Secret Service will take whatever steps necessary to remove him from the premises, using a level of force equivalent to whatever level of resistance comes from a 74 year old man who exhibits symptoms of stroke/Parkinson’s/dementia. They will not be gentle with Nagini and will treat her as an enemy combatant
I wonder what Caitlin Jenner thinks about the orange fu*kface rolling back ACA/Obamacare protection for transgender people. Does she still have her MAGA hat in her closet?
I have the impression Caitlin’s only interest is herself. The old “I got mine” attitude.
I doubt she cares.
I know a gay guy who’s gung-ho for trump and pence. He has a poc partner and they just adopted a baby. Trump wants to ban same sex couples from adopting. And yes, he’s still all in for trump.
Drug abuse
Frontotemporal Dementia
Neurosyphilis
Parkinson’s
Stroke
All are possibilities. He’s been using uppers and downers on a daily basis since the 70s. He prefers unprotected sex. He’s an overweight senior citizen who abhors exercise and has a terrible diet. He’s currently in one of the most stressful jobs on the planet after living an existence that skirted all responsibility.
We will most likely only find out what’s wrong with him after he’s dead. It wouldn’t surprise me if 4 out of the 5 are at play at the same time.
We’ll never find out for sure, I bet. He’s got doctors lying for him now, when he’s POTUS and his health needs to be public knowledge.
There’s definitely something going on though – needing his other arm to raise the glass another inch or two is downright odd. I’m not a medical professional, but it reminded me of when people lose function after a stroke.
I think it’s a “best 3 out of 5” situation. Thought you could be right that there’s one more in there too. That man is one diseased individual.
Look what they did to Hillary when she had pneumonia and still went to a 9/11 ceremony and grew woozy. Look what they do to Biden about his stutter, openly mocking him, and then also, claiming he has dementia. I mean, his own kids do this on twitter.
I work very hard to remember it’s not about who they are (we know who they are) it’s about who I am. I am not going to mock any of this. Because frankly, physical limitations are not his problem. They really are not. But yeah, deep down, do I wonder about this supposed stroke, and wonder if there might be a second one? Yeah. And maybe wonder isn’t the right word either. If things go bad in November, it might be my only hope.
My best guess is Trump recently had a stroke & he also has early signs of dementia. Combine that with malignant narcissism & what you see is Trump’s health in decline. There’s a Twitter conspiracy stating this is worse case of elder abuse people have ever seen because of this. Trump should be under a doctor’s care, not President is basically the gist of it. Personally I don’t care. I want him out of office.
Everyone seems to forget that frantic hustle to get him to Walter Reed a couple of months ago. NOT for the required physical. We were never informed about that. My bet is a TIA. He’d been slurring and twitching at that point. It’d bet he’s had several more since. Not enough to take him out of the public eye for long, but the signs are there.
Came to say the same about the secret trip to Walter Reed last year. Probably a stroke.
I agree with the others who said the Walter reed visit was to treat a stroke. You can take medication within the first three hours of symptoms that reduces a lot of the effects, but he’s so unhealthy generally and the right arm really does look affected by a stroke type situation.
I am usually your classic knee jerk, soft hearted liberal, and if trump at any time in his life had exhibited just one shred of humanity, I wouldn’t mock him. But he hasn’t, so I do.
HE TWEETED ABOUT THE RAMP!!! Actually, he Tweet-blamed THE RAMP!
It’s all so unbelievable. And pathetic.
Check out twitter. Some talented wits have set the ramp walk to music. The strains of Rocky, Yakety Sax, Chariots of Fire, The End(Doors), Macho Man, and, my favorite, narration by David Attenborough(he wouldn’t want to meet that in the wild🤣). Very funny.
PS. Today is IQ45’s birthday. I have some very attractive pics of Obama queued up as gifts to him.
Do y’all remember when he disappeared for a couple of days, I think more towards the beginning of the year? I wonder if it was a stroke.
Anyhow, the hate I have for this evil man is not something I like about myself, but I honestly just wish he’d succumb fully to whatever constellation of afflictions/pill addictions he almost certainly has and disappear forever.
I like the hate you have for him. I like you for it.
I watched part of his speech at West point live on CNN. He had to let every one know that his birthday was coming up. And then said it was the same day as the army formation anniversary or something. Then he grabs the podium and leans in and tilts his head up to the sky to ask if that was a “coincidence”. It was the most bizarre part of the whole poorly written speech. To whom was he posing the rhetorical question? God? Why the question to the sky? So weird. Just so weird. A convocation…but has to mention his own birthday.
And nobody clapped or cheered at his obvious hint for appreciation. Crickets.
He actually said “please”, it was ridiculous.
Yes, that was the cue for his usual sycophantic audience to clap, as though God had scheduled Trump’s birthday for maximum appreciation and applause. But getting called back to campus be quarantined for two weeks for a geriatric despot bore you with a speech does not inspire worship.
That officer was walking next to him so he could catch him if he stumbles. Clearly his balance and strength is not good. He is obviously aware of how it looked because he did that fake little jaunty thing at the bottom of the ramp like he is some sort of athlete. I think the GOP should literally nominate somebody else because he is going to go down and take them all with him in November. Not that it would be a bad thing. residency is even a worse nightmare than people predicted
The fake little jaunty thing at the bottom of the ramp was a struggle to retain balance while adjusting to the flat surface. I see it all the time with my 90 year old great aunt when she isn’t using her walker like she should.
No,no,no! Right now there are a lot of basic Republican voters who have finally been forced to look at what they voted for. A very small number will have done the deep soul searching and realized how they and the Republican part are responsible for the destroying of America. They won’t vote for Trump again. But most of these vaguely uncomfortable people will probably just not vote, which is good for Biden. But if the Repubs get some presentable candidate (Paul Ryan has been suspiciously silent since he left office), these people will show up. And pretend Trump was a one off, never bother to look any deeper as to why the GOP allowed things to get this bad. They won’t have to face their own complicity.
As much as I loathe Trump, my real hate is for the Republicans in Congress who put party and their self interest before country. If they had behaved with honor and integrity, he would have been gone by the end of 2017. Amendment 25, impeachment, emoluments clause. We’re spoiled for choice here, people!
I know this wont be a popular comment but it is very sad to see people not being kind no matter what you think of a person. I think he night be ill as well and he and his family must be very frightened. When my father was ill he showed all these symptoms and I was worried and cried all the time. It doesnt matter what a person says or does. Showing compassion as a human being is all we have left as a race. And u can argue that we cant show compassion to people who cant feel compassion but isnt that when compassion may be needed the most ?
Tell that to the children locked in cages and separated from their parents. He doesn’t get sympathy.
Please. As others have pointed out, when has Trump shown any compassion for anyone? AS for his family being worried about him, they have a strange way of showing it. And Don Junior tweets constantly about Biden being unfit. Save your compassion for people who deserve it.
The problem is you’re asking people to show Trump compassion when he doesn’t show anyone compassion.
Yes, it does “matter what a person says and does.” He’s a horrible person.
You are giving his children and wife far too much credit for being decent human beings. They aren’t. The wife is just sticking around until she gets her payout. The youngest kid barely knows him, rarely sees him, and nobody is going to listen to him any way. Tiffany has little contact with him, no ability to do anything, and she’s just sticking around to try to get a better position in the will. Eric’s wife Lara, Junior, and Ivanka are all in a power struggle. They all know Ivanka’s the winner there but Lara (Eric is simply an imbecile who wants Daddy to love him but Lara wants power) and Junior aren’t giving up without a fight and none of them benefit by doing the right thing and getting their father the care he needs.
They let him walk around with that terrible and poorly-applied tan on his face. They don’t care about him.
You cared for your problematic father. That’s admirable. trump’s grifting children and wives are free to care about him. But, too bad, they’re all about the benjamins. Maybe some of his low iq, hardcore acolytes can care about him. I don’t. The sooner he’s gone, the better.
He is responsible for 115000 dead Americans and counting. Where is the compassion for them? He certainly doesn’t have any.
People are dying because of him and his utter lack of leadership. He has been a source of nothing but bigotry, racism, hate, greed, and corruption his entire life. I get that his condition, whatever it is, hits close to home and is personal to you, so I do understand that.
But when it comes to him and his administration, I think of the children in cages, the doctors and nurses working in trash bags because they have no PPE, the LGBTQ community he is trying to strip basic human rights away from, the black and Latinx communities he has targeted, etc. So my compassion has its limits, and does not extend to those who spend their lives gleefully hurting others.
Well said, lucy2!
He is evil personified. There is not one redeeming aspect to him. He’s run America into the ground for personal gain, nothing else matters to him. I feel nothing but antipathy for him and people like him who reap the spoils of the country while simultaneously ruining it for millions upon millions of others.
Completely concur. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
If this were a family in your neighborhood, you would probably stay away from them.
I personally think it is equally as likely that we are simply witnessing aging effects on a lazy, completely self-serving narcissist.
He and his cronies would (and have tried to) strip us and our loved ones of our health care. pre-existing conditions protections and earned retirement benefits. Add to that the unnecessary suffering mentioned by other posters, and it is not a situation deserving of much sympathy.
Look, I had a complicated relationship with my father. I know he had his own issues with his parents. I can try to find compassion for what he went through and even his inability to break the cycle of abuse while he was alive, because it’s better for me, personally, to try to forgive and live my life and leaving the past behind.
That’s very different from finding compassion for someone who chose to be public figure who A. Shows no remorse for B. Actively eroding the democracy of my country all the while C. Currently and continuously committing crimes against humanity.
Tell me how much compassion you feel when it’s your child in a cage.
Pushing back against a racist dictator who has ruined people’s lives and vanished thousands of children amidst thousands of claims of child sexual abuse is fine by me. We have so little power and he has all of it. I think the world can stand a few jokes about him.
As for your dad, why was he “polarizing“? Was he a racist, sexist, old bully like this man?
That’s a lot of pearl clutching you’re doing over a fascist, @Thinking… a lot.
He, his family, and sycophants in Congress are filth and nothing but filth. Traitors all of them!
This shows you how much his children and his wife must hate him. Nobody who actually cares about someone would let them parade around in this state. I wonder how much his children with Ivana & their families will enjoy living in a country with no extradition. They’ve already served their purpose to Putin and Saudi Arabia, do they really think they’re going to be protected by them for the long haul?
And I also want to say if I had read this title explaining how my dad was holding a glass of water….. I would have been so heart broken. This is how he had to drink a glass of water. My father was a polarising man. He was reviled by some, feared by others and respected by many. But I was his daughter and heartbroken.
No one here is Trump’s spawn… fortunately.
Trump has never loved anyone and no one has ever loved him. If is family did care, instead of pushing and encouraging him to run again they would be encouraging him to step down and get medical help. But him being president is making them a LOT of money and no way are Ivanka and Jared giving up that money train and the power they currently have.
I watched this and was very surprised by it. He couldn’t complete the motion with his right arm, and instead of transferring the glass to his other hand, he uses his left hand to push it up. And there’s nothing wrong with an old man taking steps carefully, but he’s being extra cautious and then follows it with the weird super-hearty strides like he’s trying to pretend he wasn’t being so cautious and that tells me that he’s definitely got something to hide (like we didn’t know that already!).
Anyone who allegedly makes fun or people who wear eyeglasses and fudges height/weight, is likely never going to admit ANY condition.
Reagan and Company never admitted his clearly diminishing abilities during his second term. Somehow I imagine Ronnie was more willing to be stage-managed than Donnie.
Does he maybe have Parkinson’s? Or would that have to be disclosed to the public?
Has it been announced that Pence is a lock for the VP spot in the November 2020 election? I keep expecting Trump to give the slot to one of his kids. Probably Ivanka.
If something were to happen to Trump at some point and he could not finish out his term as POTUS I wonder if there might already be an agreement in place that Pence would name one of Trump’s older kids as VP after Pence assumes the presidency. In that situation the VP could be appointed and not required to be elected, I believe.
A replacement VP must be confirmed by both Houses. I don’t see Nagini getting confirmed in the House.
Besides the Juneteenth debacle in Oklahoma, let’s not overlook that the Republican National Convention, now in Jacksonville FL, will be held on the 60th Anniversary of the city’s KKK race riot – Ax Handle Saturday. The anniversary of when more than 200 white people chased Black people in the streets of Jacksonville and beat them with baseball bats and ax handles.
No, this is not an accident or coincidence.
I think Trump is unwell. He was clearly shaking and listing to one side. Remember a few months ago he made an unexpected trip to Walter Reed hospital for a “ physical “ , with no explanation.
I think dementia is an important thing to consider at this point too.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nanway157/status/1271955516206583810
p.s. The term you’re looking for is ‘cisgender women’.
My comment disappeared sorry. That was in reply to myself.
No point re-typing, but you’re not being fair to JK Rowling if you think she would support that change being made on the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre, or the change itself, especially given it would lead to a loss of healthcare rights. She supports transgender rights, she just also supports the right of cisgender women to talk about the issues that affect us as well, and to not be called the demeaning and offensive labels she mentioned in her follow-up statement that define us by our menstrual cycles or our genitals. The term you’re looking for is ‘cisgender women’.
He really exudes SDE. Same thing with Epstein and Weinstein now we know they have deformed junk and monster personalities.