Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

President Trump’s vision is deeply impaired and he refuses to wear corrective lenses in the presence of other people, NYT casually reports halfway down a long feature about his twitter use. https://t.co/jU20PVKevu pic.twitter.com/20ngKyghmk

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 2, 2019

It is just part and parcel of his determination to pretend to have abilities that he does not possess.

Does this explain covfefe? Is Scavino multi-tasking in the closet?

The vision thing has been out there for ages. He's always squinting at the teleprompter (which they put large text on for him)

yet more proof that ashley feinberg is our greatest living reporter

EVERYONE SHOULD ALWAYS LISTEN TO ME https://t.co/dwxJImuX7E https://t.co/z2yEMksoMg

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 2, 2019

But Donald Trump has been hostile toward adept stair users since at least 2014.

hahahahahaha

https://medium.com/@DrGJackBrown/body-language-analysis-4382-why-is-donald-trump-leaning-forward-29a69fa4e742

Donald Trump is standing with this posture — primarily because he has specially crafted, ‘lift shoes’. His added 2.5–3.5 inch heel-height causes him to lean forward. This configuration is accentuated by his obesity.

Instead of using durasteel for his leg prosthesis, the medical droids had substituted an inferior alloy, and had failed to inspect the strips that protected the electromotive lines. As a result, the inner lining of the pressurized bodysuit was continually snagging on places where the strips were anchored to knee and ankle joints. Additionally, the tall boots were a poor fit for his artificial feet, whose toes lacked the electrostatic sensitivity of his equally false fingertips. These devices made it even more difficult for him to move with ease, much less with any grace. Raised in the heel, the cumbersome footwear canted him slightly forward, forcing him to move with exaggerated caution lest he stumble or topple over. Worse, they were so heavy that he often felt rooted to the ground, or as if he were moving in high gravity. He even felt that he needed to use the Force to move,[18] though he eventually grew used to it.[7] As a result of his large body and abnormal needs, Vader had to have a custom airspeeder made for him to drive comfortably in.[46]

marvellous

Just add those lift shoes to the already overwhelming pile of evidence that Trump is insecure and compensates proportionately. However, he has many other even less attractive personality and character traits that have far more bearing on how awful a person he is, so this analysis shrinks in importance compared to those worse traits he displays almost daily.

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— No Context Fox News (@nocontext_fox) November 5, 2019

too much Jimmy Savile energy in this one for that humour thread!

ctrl-f "Trump" on Google News homepage: 37 results

Hate to say it but I think this guys a dud

We asked: what shade was the makeup?
"Una naranja espantosa," one of the housekeepers said. https://t.co/AXEkHBvgPX

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) December 4, 2019

only monsters require ironed underwear

The president: "Sinks. Showers. And what goes with a sink and a shower?" Crowd: "TOILETS!" The president: "Ten times. Right? Ten times." He adds, "Not me, of course, not me. But you."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 19, 2019

oh my god

So far this month, the president has claimed that modern efficient toilets require people to flush 10 or 15 times and modern efficient dishwashers require people to press buttons 12 times. https://t.co/SyzVcHxWyv

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 19, 2019

I meant this one

Trump says that you used to press a dishwasher once and it was an "explosion" and five minutes later steam would come out. "Now you press it 12 times. Women tell me."

Women tell me.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 19, 2019

now he's saying his turds are small?

Trump says F-35 pilots are better-looking than Tom Cruise, who is a good guy, with "equal" faces but better bodies.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 19, 2019

xp or he means the crowd will now be responsible for flushing his own

I can't help but laugh at the toilet and dishwasher lines, although not in a "tell it like it is" way he's going for

turns out the rumored pee tape was actually just footage of him flushing for the 12th time

Trump neurologically malfunctions w/ a full spasm. Note his shoulders involuntarily jerk as he slurs. Thx @karenamyatt & @ChuckWa74233336 for the heads up. Trump desperately needs a neurological eval at a quality facility like the Mayo Clinic. Not Walter Reed which reports to WH pic.twitter.com/ct6S5Pln2d

— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) December 22, 2019

lol

urgent neuro eval!!

My background is running technology & finance businesses in Chicago & Silicon Valley and technology/biotech investing. I’ve said a number of times on Twitter that I am not a physician. Additionally, I have said hundreds of times that Trump should receive a neurological exam, workup and evaluation at a top facility like the Mayo Clinic or Johns Hopkins. In the absence of him receiving a proper medical diagnosis, raising public awareness is necessary to expose the obvious coverup of his health condition.

Dud

A neurological malfunction during Infrastructure Week leaves Trump increasingly isolated, but hey! Bacon!

it would be pretty amazing to see him stroke out in the middle of one of his horseshit lies

So how do events like the neurological malfunction play out in the US media (asking from the UK)? Fake news?

The US news media, ime (including commercial TV news, print newspapers and NPR radio), does not report on his physical condition at all, and treats his insane and illiterate rageblurts as "the president spoke harshly" or "the president struck back" or 'the president issued a statement" etc without remarking on the illiteracy or incoherency or illegality of the content. Somehow this is regarded as a matter only for opinion writers.

I looked at that "malfunction" clip and was not convinced. He was blurting stuff out impromptu, as he always does at his rallies, and therefore he was just mindlessly stringing his favorite clichéd words and phrases together when he suddenly realized he was about to wish everyone a "beautiful" something- his next intended word seemed to be either 'Christmas' or more likely 'holidays' - because his brain veers instantly to the stupid "war on Christmas" crap he knows will go down well with the crowd, so he zaps the word halfway out of his mouth and quickly shifts his confused tongue into a whole different sentence.

The midline shift in "thinking" comes out of his mouth as "bzzphtht" or some such, like Bill the Cat. But it wasn't a seizure or spasm, just a normal Trumpian brain fart.

I'm not convinced either, but it's the upper-body jerk the guy's referring to as a dementia spasm, not the verbal/brainfart

there's no such thing as a "dementia spasm", all this armchair quarterbacking of neurological symptoms is a blend of wishful thinking and concern trolling

Mayo Clinic is the first result, guess that's why dude wants Trump to get checked up there: they're in on the conspiracy

xpost

But how can that be? The neurologist who diagnosed it on Twitter has a background in running technology & finance businesses in Chicago & Silicon Valley and technology/biotech investing!

if he were to die before the impeachment goes into full gear, do dems bring new evidence against pence or just throw up their hands and say GAWRSH alright you get a year

that tweet is such bullshit jeez talk about overselling....the responses are unreal. every time I dip my toe in centrist #resistance Twitter I get so profoundly scared about the election

they are either credulous idiots or hucksters or usually both

who was that dude who was hopped up on stimulants who made the EPIC twitter thread at the beginning of the Trump era? the one that was credulously retweeted by a bunch of people who thought it captured the zeitgeist

I mean, it did, because it was all the work of some armchair cowboy who mainlined a bunch of stimulants and went into epic thread mode pointing to all the ephemeral, dumb conspiracy angles that people jump on instead of battling the constant raging incompetence and malevolence

otm

the main legacy of the Trump era, outside of pulling back the curtain on the voting public and making us question why we make the choices we do, is going to be the institutional shift

as much as the public eye has concentrated on shady executive order mandates and gross policies proposed by Stephen Miller and his ilk, the hands-off approach is going to affect us in the long term just as much. there are so many understaffed agencies, embassies, and programs that might end up withering on the vine or becoming irrelevant by the time they're filled. I have no idea who is running the show or whether these places are staffed, because something like 1/3 of the appointed roles are empty. I think part of this is intentional on McConnell's part in that many roles that have nominees aren't being put up for approval in the senate and an administration that gave a shit would be pushing on him.

The cynic in me says that maybe some of the backchannel trading and negotiation that happens abroad should have been more closely examined and the fact it just.. can't happen with no one there.. could somehow be a net positive. But I see no indication this is done with any sense of purpose or analysis, just negligence by design and pure negligence.

The Ukraine boondoggle is the one bit that's in the public eye and it's showing how weary the public is of the status quo. Ukraine should be able to buy weapons, because they're a democratic government and being armed would be insurance against an incursion because that's how things are done. But is that how things should be done? Do we know that even works, or that it works in a way we can morally justify? Is it our place to be the world's weapons wholesaler? Nearly everyone that seems to care is objecting because the protocol has been broken, not due to a strong belief in protecting the sovereignty of Ukraine.

Optimistically, we end up examine what we're actually doing as a country, why we do those things, and whether they're effective in pursuing an actual stated goal. And the Trump era gets its silver lining. But I don't see a path where that's happening.

xxp that would be Eric Garland, I’ll always treasure his follow-up rant about the people mocking him - “you malignant professionals!”

Garland is p much the goat resistance lib

eric garland was the "guys, it's time for some game theory" dude. the reactions to his thread were even more gloriously psychotic than the thread itself -- the editor in chief of fuckin' mother jones called it a federalist paper for our time or some nonsense like that.

sic in that link a muscle spasm is a sustained contraction - causing a lack of movement - rather than the sort of clonic jerk he gave in the video. I still think the armchair neurology is people trying to put a figleaf on their angry opinion, "it's not just that I think he's a fuckwit, I think there is genuinely something neurologically wrong with him so it's out of concern." Nobody with a full on dementia or neurological disorder could sustain the schedule that he follows, even if it's less than other presidents. His speech patterns etc are the product of fatigue because the asshole has never had to actually work before. The other "symptoms" are stupidity, DGAF and a stunning lack of empathy - I mean the psychological "diagnoses" are obvious but he doesn't have a degenerative brain disease unless diagnosed as such.