The Republican front-runner made another gaffe as he tried to explain away all his other ones.

The Republican front-runner made another gaffe as he tried to explain away all his other ones.

Donald Trump’s recent memory failures sure do look like some kind of cognitive decline. In the last few months, Trump has mixed up President Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama, slurred his words, bragged about his favorite type of violent death and that he calls corn “non-liquid gold,” insisted you need voter ID to buy bread, and confused his GOP competitor Nikki Haley for California Representative Nancy Pelosi, claiming that the former failed to act during January 6.

But during a campaign rally on Wednesday, Trump had a new excuse for all that, claiming all of his short circuits are actually just sarcastic jokes.

  • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Only to the “facts should matter” crowd. Other audiences come up with their own interpretations, regardless. :-|

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        No they wouldn’t, which doesn’t matter bc they’d actually go along with it regardless, thus making no functional difference whatsoever.

        They do what they are told, no matter how nonsensical it may seem, even to themselves.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Exactly. So I’m not thinking about them. I’m thinking about the sliver of people who can be swayed either way that will end up deciding this election.

          • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Good call.

            I’m not sure anyone is even thinking about the candidates themselves at all anymore. Same for Harris & Biden - both sides have given up on a “good” and especially “popular” candidate. The entire focus is now on what we - both sides - can extract from them. Zero thought given to a situation like if Russia were to send nukes in the air and a decision has to be made within seconds, who’s going to try to wake up the octogenarian to ask them what should be done? Well all know that someone else will be making the real calls, and we’re giving up choosing directly who that will be.

            So for like 80-90% of us, the masks are off: we already know that we will just pick a “side”, bc that’s all that we are allowed to do. Those very few people in the middle though… yeah that’s going to be interesting, to see what they do. I think even most of them will end up picking a “side” rather than a candidate by the end of it all, but we’ll see.