‘Confused, Incoherent’ Trump’s Speeches Show Signs of Mental Decline: NYT Analysis

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DonOLD has been in mental decline for a couple of decades now. 

The “stable genius” suggested injecting bleach to treat COVID, thought he could alter the Constitution by Executive Order, altered a meteorological chart with a sharpie, talked about airports getting bombed during the American Revolutionary War, asked if we could nuke hurricanes, didn’t know India bordered China, thought magnets don’t work in water, suggested raking forests to prevent fires, didn’t know that Presbyterians are Christians (and he is allegedly a Presbyterian himself), told his Israeli hosts after arriving from Saudi Arabia, “We just got back from the Middle East,” said that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, was “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more,” complained about toilets not flushing, thinks windmills cause cancer, thought we needed ID to buy groceries. 

I may add more later.