Trump calls Elon Musk by wrong name as his biographer says the candidate is 'hyper-aware' voters are doubting his mental acuity

But it wouldn't have been a self-pardon if he resigned and had Pence take over. There's already precedent with Ford's pardon of Nixon.

Trump's PTSD over Obama's... existence

Watch American history unfold, and that's not hyperbole. History changed that night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA

I wish him a long life to experience it.

It's kind of like Vizzini in that regard. He uses it, but it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.

Idgnified?

He knows all the best words. Some people say he is true genius.

Highly unlikely.

This is in a hypothetical situation where he didn’t run in 2020, so he wouldn’t have done the election manipulation in Georgia.

You and me both. But he doesn't know that.

As you might have noticed. The man is a fucking idiot.

The main one that he couldn’t avoid at that point was the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

If Trump had exited without a fight, my guess is that most of the momentum for that would have died out. Yes it was a crime, but I think most would have just wanted to put Trump in the rear view mirror and forget about him and focus on the future for better or worse.

Isn't "just don't commit crimes" a common justification for police murder and deflection when prison reform is brought up?

hadn’t ran

It's "hadn't run" in English.

Sorry about your highway shooting, glad if no one's been killed.

Right. The "liberal media" BS has been of the Republican's most successful tactics. Corporate media is not left-wing - it's absurd, but that's what conservatives push and many people fully believe it. Almost all media outlets in the US support conservatives in subtle ways, but people have been trained to think that right/centrist corporate media is rabidly biased towards the left.

Yes, but many of the journalists are normal peopke on the left and write. If they are constantly being stifled, they should still be reporting on that or quitting. There is meant to be done integrity in the profession.

Its been gone for many years. Now its just content farms.

It worked for GW Bush, too... come off as sorta dense and dopey, then people will act pleasantly surprised when you exceed expectations vs. be critical for falling short of them.

I understand it was advertising credits for twitter specifically. So not really 'money'

I saw he said he was writing a $45 million check a month for 4 months. Dunno if he followed through.

Leon Skum

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I'm so glad his name is so dumb and forgettable that this made me completely forget it for like 30 seconds lol.

Maybe they'll find Leon working at Four Season Total Landscaping

I don't think he really is that stupid (or at least used to be, IDK how much of his intellect he has left given the decline we've been seeing lately). What he is, is extremely intellectually lazy. He believes that he can make good decisions by "instinct", without ever taking some time to think about it, do some research or consulting experts. He believes that this is what being intelligent is. He just says and does whatever feels good at the time, thinking that being "so smart" means he doesn't need to do any work at all to make good decisions. And whenever whatever he said was inevitably revealed as false or stupid, only then he will actually make an intellectual effort to bullshit and manipulate his way out of it. And this ability to perform the mental gymnastics to keep himself in denial over his incompetence is something that he has become outstandingly good at. His followers are just people who buy into those mental gymnastics.

I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things... I know what I’m doing and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are. But I speak to a lot of people. My primary consultant is myself, and I have, you know, I have a good instinct for this stuff.

Leon Skum

For this year at least, it's too late to replace Trump on the ticket. Unless they replace Trump with Vance. That would comply with the rules. Sort of. Trump's name would still be on the ticket. But Vance would take lead, and would pick a running mate.

There are two major factors that would keep this from becoming a reality. First is Trump will never step aside in favor of someone else.

Second is that Vance has negative charisma.

I don't know why people like OP post "He's always been (stupid/senile/deranged/whatever)!" Does it make them feel smart to say,"I've always known better and you're an idiot if you think this is new!"

Trump is clearly past some kind of tipping point here. He's gone downhill so far and fast that, were he a relative, we would have been plotting elder care a year or two back, no longer fit to live alone and keep house.

There's obviously been a drop in his coherence, but it's not like he was smart and now he's dumb... He's always babbled bullshit at a 5th grade level at best, he's just had enough money and undeserved confidence behind him that he could mostly muddle through an interview just sounding smarmy and punchable.... Now he's also dealing with dementia to the point where he literally can't remember what he started bullshitting about.