It may just be a result of his general laziness; it's said that he does not like to read in order to improve his knowledge, and in fact has the attention span of a small child. In his entire life, he never has had to really apply himself in order to get ahead. Daddy gave him money, he blew that and declared bankruptcy, daddy gave him some more money and he blew that, rinse and repeat..... So now we're stuck with a “president” who just makes it up as he bumbles along; welcome to the days of "bigly" and "horribleness". The leaders of the foreign countries he deals with speak better English than
It may just be a result of his general laziness; it's said that he does not like to read in order to improve his knowledge, and in fact has the attention span of a small child. In his entire life, he never has had to really apply himself in order to get ahead. Daddy gave him money, he blew that and declared bankruptcy, daddy gave him some more money and he blew that, rinse and repeat..... So now we're stuck with a “president” who just makes it up as he bumbles along; welcome to the days of "bigly" and "horribleness". The leaders of the foreign countries he deals with speak better English than he does.
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I used to work for Adult Protective Services. We were trained to evaluate when a person was suffering from cognitive difficulties so we could refer them to doctors and services that could diagnose mental health problems and provide help for them. When someone speaks in a “word salad” it is one sign that they are probably suffering from cognitive decline. There are other signs that Trump exhibits as well, such as his short attention span in briefings, his dislike of reading reports, and his difficulty pronouncing words. If Donald Trump had been my client, I would have referred him for further e
I used to work for Adult Protective Services. We were trained to evaluate when a person was suffering from cognitive difficulties so we could refer them to doctors and services that could diagnose mental health problems and provide help for them. When someone speaks in a “word salad” it is one sign that they are probably suffering from cognitive decline. There are other signs that Trump exhibits as well, such as his short attention span in briefings, his dislike of reading reports, and his difficulty pronouncing words. If Donald Trump had been my client, I would have referred him for further evaluation by a mental health professional based solely on his speech patterns and vocabulary. They have deteriorated significantly in the past 10 years or so.
I really do not like Trump as a person and hate his policies, but all that aside, it is pretty obvious to anyone who has ever worked in the mental health field that he really should have a thorough mental assessment. Many people who revile Trump may not realize that he is probably terrified and confused, because he likely realizes on some level that he is slipping mentally. Unfortunately, given Trump’s character flaws, he reacts by becoming increasingly belligerent, angry, and defensive. It is frightening and dangerous for the President of the US to have these problems. The most frightening part may be the refusal on the part of his party leaders and followers to acknowledge that he has a serious cognitive issue.
Clearly, DJT exhibits some behavioral characteristics which might signal dementia. The inability to recall appropriate words, lapses of memory, fixation with certain erroneous and nonsensical ideas, failure to observe public protocol (including such tasks as interacting appropriately with peers, moderating his language when speaking publicly), all signal a loss of cognitive function which are seen in dementias.
Because he is operating in an environment where many other routine functions are performed by aides and house staff, many other hallmarks of failing memory and executive function may be
Clearly, DJT exhibits some behavioral characteristics which might signal dementia. The inability to recall appropriate words, lapses of memory, fixation with certain erroneous and nonsensical ideas, failure to observe public protocol (including such tasks as interacting appropriately with peers, moderating his language when speaking publicly), all signal a loss of cognitive function which are seen in dementias.
Because he is operating in an environment where many other routine functions are performed by aides and house staff, many other hallmarks of failing memory and executive function may be obscured. For example, because he is scheduled, prompted, and transported by staff, we do not see him routinely forgetting what activity he has on his agenda, where he must go and at what time he must be there, or how to get there. These are areas which often draw the attention of family members and friends when an individual begins to manifest dementia, along with changes in other functional domains.
It’s the language of dumb rich kids who are also bullies & narcissists. Lots of word salad: saying 3 or 4 phrases without actually saying anything that has any actual meaning. Victim blaming: he blames his victims for getting him in trouble whenever he does them wrong. Ethnic shaming: shaming other ethnicities for not “falling in line” with whatever drivel escapes his sound hole. Lying: claiming he’s a “stable genius” (when in fact at least 1 of his teachers is quoted as saying “trump was the dumbest f*ng student I’ve ever had”, claiming he “was in the military” (military school, where you’re
It’s the language of dumb rich kids who are also bullies & narcissists. Lots of word salad: saying 3 or 4 phrases without actually saying anything that has any actual meaning. Victim blaming: he blames his victims for getting him in trouble whenever he does them wrong. Ethnic shaming: shaming other ethnicities for not “falling in line” with whatever drivel escapes his sound hole. Lying: claiming he’s a “stable genius” (when in fact at least 1 of his teachers is quoted as saying “trump was the dumbest f*ng student I’ve ever had”, claiming he “was in the military” (military school, where you’re sent by your father because you’re an uncontrollable, belligerent pos…doesn’t count as “military service”…especially, later after your daddy pays a Dr to give you 5–6 deferments for imaginary “bone spurs” & you can’t even remember what foot had a “bump” on it). Name calling: the easiest narcissistic bully giveaway: made fun of a reporter with a disability, called our military personnel “suckers & losers”, claimed he didn’t like (now deceased) POW John McCain saying “I prefer guys who don’t get captured/caught” (with reference to OUR military officers), he called Biden “sleepy joe”, called Dems “evil”, etc, etc. the name calling is classic behavior of horrible people who try to project &/or deflect THEIR short comings onto other people instead of manning up & taking credit/responsibility for THEIR own failures & despicable actions. These traits are also very apparent in the mentally unstable/mentally ill folks. Key/Buzz words: saying things like HUGE, very ver very, biggest/bigliest (not even an actual word) repeatedly saying such words as if they somehow make that person sound intelligent (while proving what ignorant idiots they, in fact are). I think he has somehow perfected the art of saying hundreds of words that actually mean nothing, to ignorant people who believe the lies & Russian propaganda coming out of his spray tanned jowls. It’s unfortunate that 70+ million Americans have fallen for the snake oil salesman’s lies & scams. He committed treason, fraud & theft of government documents (which normally would carry the death penalty, but here he is, trying for a second term & the self entitled rich people that backs him are still a clear & present (as well as future) danger to our nation. Our country will never truly be “free” as long as we let these puppet masters continue to pull or cut the strings of our democracy.
Word salad ?? He told me that he’s got the best words !!
Chris Cizilla, a journalist often writes columns which dissect Trumps bold, bizzare and questionable statements. The headline might read something like “the 35 most outrageous lines from ……” or “the 43 strangest lines from Trump’s bizarre press conference” and you get the picture.
A few years ago Sarah Palin was under the microscope for her word salads (youtube) and these days Trump gives the comedians and journalists a comedy gold mine.
If ‘ya don’t wish to read……go to youtube and google Trump…word salad. Or …Sarah Palin ….word salad. Both
Word salad ?? He told me that he’s got the best words !!
Chris Cizilla, a journalist often writes columns which dissect Trumps bold, bizzare and questionable statements. The headline might read something like “the 35 most outrageous lines from ……” or “the 43 strangest lines from Trump’s bizarre press conference” and you get the picture.
A few years ago Sarah Palin was under the microscope for her word salads (youtube) and these days Trump gives the comedians and journalists a comedy gold mine.
If ‘ya don’t wish to read……go to youtube and google Trump…word salad. Or …Sarah Palin ….word salad. Both are quite entertaining and an excellent teaching tool.
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What do you make of Trump's "word salad"?
Inedible, and indigestible for any reasonably educated person.
Unintelligible and meaningless.
Tasteless…
What do you make of Trump's "word salad"?
Inedible, and indigestible for any reasonably educated person.
Unintelligible and meaningless.
Tasteless…
It's like comparing apples to oranges. He referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as "Tim Apple". He mistook the word origins for "oranges" three times.
Even if you consider this OK, he has also claimed several times that his New York born father was born in Germany.
As long as 40–45% of the American people don't have a problem with this erratic behavior, Trump could get reelected. The rest of you better put on your voting shoes in November 2020. The consequences of a mentally deteriorating President are just too dire. At least Ronald Reagan had some competent people around him. Just what do you think a
It's like comparing apples to oranges. He referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as "Tim Apple". He mistook the word origins for "oranges" three times.
Even if you consider this OK, he has also claimed several times that his New York born father was born in Germany.
As long as 40–45% of the American people don't have a problem with this erratic behavior, Trump could get reelected. The rest of you better put on your voting shoes in November 2020. The consequences of a mentally deteriorating President are just too dire. At least Ronald Reagan had some competent people around him. Just what do you think a second term Trump administration will look like?
He’s a moron, yet, Donald Trump’s MAGA cult can’t stop twisting themselves into fucking pretzels trying to Trumpsplain every incoherent word salad that tumbles out of his mouth. The dude’s a walking disaster of half-baked thoughts, and yet his sycophants act like he’s some misunderstood genius.
Take his exact words from a 2020 rally: “We have the best tests, nobody tests better than us, we’re testing more than anybody—millions, billions of tests.”
Billions? The U.S. population’s 330 million, you dumbass—did he mean trillions? Did he mean toasters? Who the fuck
He’s a moron, yet, Donald Trump’s MAGA cult can’t stop twisting themselves into fucking pretzels trying to Trumpsplain every incoherent word salad that tumbles out of his mouth. The dude’s a walking disaster of half-baked thoughts, and yet his sycophants act like he’s some misunderstood genius.
Take his exact words from a 2020 rally: “We have the best tests, nobody tests better than us, we’re testing more than anybody—millions, billions of tests.”
Billions? The U.S. population’s 330 million, you dumbass—did he mean trillions? Did he mean toasters? Who the fuck knows? His supporters, though, swoop in like, “No, no, he didn’t say billions, he meant millions of successes,” or some other batshit reinterpretation.
Then there’s the bleach fiasco—April 2020, when he mused, verbatim, “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute… is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside?”
Clear as day, the idiot suggested injecting fucking bleach, yet the MAGA brigade screeched, “He didn’t say inject bleach, he was just brainstorming!” Bullshit. He said it.
Or how about when he didn’t say a damn thing coherent about policy—like his 2018 State Of The Union ramble on energy: “We’re gonna have clean coal, beautiful coal, the best coal, nobody does it better.”
What the hell does “beautiful clean coal” mean? His cultists leap in: “He meant sustainable energy innovation!” No, he fucking didn’t—he meant whatever gibberish his brain coughed up. The pattern’s undeniable: Trump spews nonsense—“I have the best words,” he once bragged, while proving he doesn’t—and his drooling fanbase spins it into gold.
They’ll say he didn’t mean “grab ‘em by the pussy” (he did), or he did mean “peaceful transition” when he riled up January 6th (he didn’t). It’s a cult defending their golden calf, bending over backwards to explain why “covfefe” was a secret stroke of brilliance.
Bottom line: The President of the United States shouldn’t need a goddamn decoder ring for every sentence. He’s an idiot, his words are a mess, and no amount of MAGA gymnastics changes that. If you can’t speak coherently, you shouldn’t lead shit.
End of story.
No, he is really actually that stupid.
It was 1991, and I was working as a designer/faux finish scenic artist on this “Taj Mahal” casino going up.
I met the developer - and immediately I was taken by the sheer fact this person survived to adulthood, in spite of himself… Donald J Trump.
I worked on a total of 6 projects either for or just with the nit-wit.
Pure Frathousian ignorance at every level.
Silver spoon shoved so far down his frathousian throat it lobotomized his head that was shoved too far up his ass.
I mean, seriously, you have never come across this level of stupidity or lack of reason. I
No, he is really actually that stupid.
It was 1991, and I was working as a designer/faux finish scenic artist on this “Taj Mahal” casino going up.
I met the developer - and immediately I was taken by the sheer fact this person survived to adulthood, in spite of himself… Donald J Trump.
I worked on a total of 6 projects either for or just with the nit-wit.
Pure Frathousian ignorance at every level.
Silver spoon shoved so far down his frathousian throat it lobotomized his head that was shoved too far up his ass.
I mean, seriously, you have never come across this level of stupidity or lack of reason. I had worked medical before scenic, and as a lab tech - dealt with learning disabilities, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Down’s Syndrome…
Trump makes it all look remarkably functional, comparatively.
Really, truly, is that ignorant of all things. Not an act.
I have a 15 year old who sounds like a Cambridge Scholar compared to Trump. My guess would be that he has passively trained himself to communicate in this manner with the public as, for so many years, all his communication has been with our instant-gratification media and on The Apprentice and via Twitter. All three reward quippy, shallow partial sentences rather than fully-fleshed thoughts. I imagine his communication style is more mature when he is off the mic. (And I detest what he is and everything he stands for.)
That his voting base finds this at least acceptable if not actually desirable
I have a 15 year old who sounds like a Cambridge Scholar compared to Trump. My guess would be that he has passively trained himself to communicate in this manner with the public as, for so many years, all his communication has been with our instant-gratification media and on The Apprentice and via Twitter. All three reward quippy, shallow partial sentences rather than fully-fleshed thoughts. I imagine his communication style is more mature when he is off the mic. (And I detest what he is and everything he stands for.)
That his voting base finds this at least acceptable if not actually desirable is the far more worrisome fact.
“They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die”
I didn't pay that much attention to Trump in the 2016 election. I found his inauguration speech to be somewhat depressing and not full of hope and plans for the future. I don’t normally vote for Republicans because I disagree with their policies. I did notice that unless reading from prepared remarks that Trump was a worse speaker than a beginner in Toastmaster’s, where people learn how to speak in public. This was not critical until COVID hit the world and Trump held the first COVID briefing. I was all ears. The President, in these cases, usually gives a brief introductory talk and then turns
I didn't pay that much attention to Trump in the 2016 election. I found his inauguration speech to be somewhat depressing and not full of hope and plans for the future. I don’t normally vote for Republicans because I disagree with their policies. I did notice that unless reading from prepared remarks that Trump was a worse speaker than a beginner in Toastmaster’s, where people learn how to speak in public. This was not critical until COVID hit the world and Trump held the first COVID briefing. I was all ears. The President, in these cases, usually gives a brief introductory talk and then turns it over to his team for the technical stuff. Instead, Trump tried to speak from notes. He rambled around, skipped stuff, repeated stuff. He could not talk from notes! A Toastmaster or even someone who paid attention in Speech class during college could take notes and speak clearly from them. I wanted information and I was not getting any until his team took over.
I am not a psychologist or any medical person so I will just go ahead and say he is lazy.
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I see FTD, frontotemporal dementia. He may have already sent our republic into a speedy decline. What gets me is the number of people who think he’s wonderful. I see this as a result of the decline in American education, especially the discouraging of critical thinking. If you want an A, you need to parrot back what the teacher and/or textbook say. Questioning or original thinking are not allowed. Sigh. Sob.
Donny demonstrates the language skills comparable to that of a fifth or sixth grade child, and that’s on a good day. He typically attempts to convey his message using fragmented sentences while repeating himself several times believing that this approach will somehow enhance the delivery of what message he is attempting to convey.
When someone challenges his statement or position he typically attempts to speak over the other individual while creating lies to support his statement. All too often, he’ll attempt to change topics while verbally attacking the other party making disparaging comments
Donny demonstrates the language skills comparable to that of a fifth or sixth grade child, and that’s on a good day. He typically attempts to convey his message using fragmented sentences while repeating himself several times believing that this approach will somehow enhance the delivery of what message he is attempting to convey.
When someone challenges his statement or position he typically attempts to speak over the other individual while creating lies to support his statement. All too often, he’ll attempt to change topics while verbally attacking the other party making disparaging comments in an attempt to intimidate the other person.
In summary, Donny struggles to convey even the most basic ideas, concepts or opinions. His limited knowledge and appreciation of the most basic vocabulary is only exacerbated by his pathological lying hampered by a very limited knowledge of almost any topic
It’s likely a combination of two things. One, he’s 70 years old and not as sharp as he likes to lead people to believe. Two, a lot of his supporters like immediate gratification. They want to hear something that immediately makes sense to them. Using elementary school rhetoric assures his supporters will understand.
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“This is the key to healthy aging,” says Norris. “I’m living
I started taking the legendary Chuck Norris’s advice since he is now a whopping 81 years old and yet has MORE energy than me. He found a key to healthy aging… and it was by doing the opposite of what most of people are told. Norris says he started learning about this revolutionary new method when he noticed most of the supplements he was taking did little or nothing to support his health. After extensive research, he discovered he could create dramatic changes to his health simply focusing on 3 things that sabotage our body as we age.
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His word salads contain candied pecans.
Smokehouse almonds with salt.
Prickly pears and desert bushes.
And the ghosts of dead white men.
There is nothing nutritious about him.
Also note that his word salads never contain any more than the approximately 5000 words in the English language which he still commands. The average 14-year-old has a firmer grasp on the language than does he; more than 10,000. Yet in 1950, that 14-year-old utilized 25,000 words to describe his world.
The dumbing down of Trump is dangerous-er and dangerous-er.
Trump has several repetitive phrases that he uses to the point of distraction. They are phrases that worked really well for him when he was in the business of promoting himself and his “greatness” and he isn’t going to change now.
“Nobody could believe…” “No one ever knew it could be (so great) (so difficult) (so whatever). “The greatest anyone had ever seen…” “People never thought it could be done…” “The greatest economy…” “People come up to me and say…” “The best president in history…” “No president ever accomplished so much…”
One of the funniest was “Most people didn’t know Abraham Lincoln wa
Trump has several repetitive phrases that he uses to the point of distraction. They are phrases that worked really well for him when he was in the business of promoting himself and his “greatness” and he isn’t going to change now.
“Nobody could believe…” “No one ever knew it could be (so great) (so difficult) (so whatever). “The greatest anyone had ever seen…” “People never thought it could be done…” “The greatest economy…” “People come up to me and say…” “The best president in history…” “No president ever accomplished so much…”
One of the funniest was “Most people didn’t know Abraham Lincoln was a Republican…” Translation: he didn’t know it. “Fredrick Douglass is doing a great job…” Translation: no, he isn’t, he’s been dead for more than 100 years. “No one knew health care could be so complicated…” Translation: he thought it was easy. “Tariff wars are easy to win…” Translation: no, they aren’t because both sides tend to dig in and refuse to settle. “I’ve got all the best words…” (about going to the Ivy League school, University of Pennsylvania, for his last two years of college). Translation: his vocabulary is very limited.
He seems to have learned not much at all at Penn. Reports say he ran home to New York almost every weekend, the better to be closer to daddy’s real estate business. Unbelievable is one of his favorite words, often coupled with “people couldn’t believe…” Everything in Trump world is unbelievably great, wonderful, beyond anyone’s imagination.
Trump is an ignorant man and he speaks that way, showing his ignorance all the time. For those who are in love with him, his short, aggressive way of speaking seems much better than the cautious way most politicians speak. They mistake his inability to form complex ideas for authenticity.
Trump is an expert at being himself, at the self promoting, constantly bragging “very stable genius” he sold himself as being for decades. He continues the sales job every day and he is, in the process, able to dominate the national media with his personality, the attacking tweets and his rambling speaking style. It works for him and he thinks it is brilliant in every way.
He is constant “big news” because he is so unpredictable and, otherwise, constantly attacking everyone in sight. He stirs controversy minute by minute and, for the major news media, this is like catnip. They play into his hands every day giving him news space and airtime that no other president, ever, has commanded outside of wartime (and probably beyond that, too). By allowing Trump to dominate coverage of Trump, they hand enormous power to him. More than anything, he wants to set the narrative of his presidency and our times and, the news media can’t help themselves, they let him do it.
If Trump were a building, he would be all facade and no floors or rooms inside the building. He is 98% show and 2% qualified to be president. Those who think they love him, and still have open minds, are going to have their hearts broken when they finally have to face the truth. He is a phony through and through, top to bottom, front to back. (In broadcasting, where I have worked most of my life, I have known many phonies, people who put on a big show but, underneath, have fragile egos built on falsehoods. I have never met anyone in Trump’s league of ego-driven, self-praise spouting phoniness.)
The way he speaks indicates a kind of rambling confusion that is not without practice and evolved successfully in the field where he used to operate. (His encounters in real estate were usually much shorter and purely transactional, an enormous number of his “great” real estate deals ended up in piles of lawsuits, more than 5,000 by some counts.) It also reflects the deep disorganization and distortion field of his mind.
We are in serious danger every moment he remains in the presidency, particularly because those in his own party have chosen not to challenge him out in the open and try to bring him down to earth. Had the Republicans possessed the integrity and personal courage to insist that Trump settle down, he might have been modestly successful as president but he and they chose otherwise, to try to ride the wave and risk what might happen. They were cowards in the face of a clear national emergency. We were dragged along, like it or not.
Trump is trapped in a carefully constructed asylum of his own making and he will not relent. This is sad all around but most particularly for our nation and the world beyond.
Someone added in a comment “Believe me…” as being one of Trump’s repetitive phrases. Indeed. I didn’t think of that when writing my longer comment. It seems like Trump uses “believe me” like a crutch: when he knows people should not believe him, he throws in “believe me”.
The Washington Post reported the following was contained in Trump’s 1987 book, The Art of the Deal:
“In many ways, his 1987 “Art of the Deal” was a manifesto for yuppie politics—or what we today might call Trumpism. “I play to people’s fantasies,” the developer wrote. “People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.””**
These are the very same methods he has brought to the presidency. Those who saw him as some sort of hero businessperson when he was pretending to be one on television and who liked his raw appeals against immigration and on other matters accepted the PR and, apparently, haven’t looked back. Like a master salesman he was, Trump today is always selling, always preaching about how right he is and how wrong everyone else is. Not much has changed except the platform he uses now.
**What he could have said is that the news media has no reliable means of countering such bragging, even when it is a bold-faced lie. They report what he said but stories correcting the record, if they are run at all, come out days, weeks or months later and receive far less attention.
While it’s tempting to think he’s a space alien sent to reek havoc on Earth,
he is an American who seems to be suffering some form of degenerative disease which is causing deterioration in his speech.
While it’s tempting to think he’s a space alien sent to reek havoc on Earth,
he is an American who seems to be suffering some form of degenerative disease which is causing deterioration in his speech.
If you watch a documentary about Trump's life on Netflix called “Trump: An American Dream,” and do some basic research on him, it is easy to draw a broad conclusion that Trump is, simply put, not smart.
He was born into a very wealthy family with pretty much everything and more than what an average person could ask for. Throughout his life, he has had everything done for, or given to him. He inherited all his wealth and money and at times, put it to use to start his own companies (which failed disastrously because of his pathetic business management skills). His dad paid his way through school,
If you watch a documentary about Trump's life on Netflix called “Trump: An American Dream,” and do some basic research on him, it is easy to draw a broad conclusion that Trump is, simply put, not smart.
He was born into a very wealthy family with pretty much everything and more than what an average person could ask for. Throughout his life, he has had everything done for, or given to him. He inherited all his wealth and money and at times, put it to use to start his own companies (which failed disastrously because of his pathetic business management skills). His dad paid his way through school, and Trump never had to go out of his way to work for or learn anything. Consequently, because of their wealth, his parents never felt the need to challenge Donald Trump in any way.
Because of that, he never really had to interact with people and communities that are completely different from those in which he grew up. He was never intellectually challenged, and has lived his whole life in a bubble.
That is why he talks and constructs sentences like a first grader, because he is simply not smart. And frankly, I do not blame him for not being smart. Unlike most of the rest of us who have to work hard to get at least somewhere, Trump never had to challenge himself, intellectually or otherwise, and work hard towards anything. When you keep this in mind, a lot of things about his behavior start to make sense. All his life, he has automatically gotten what he wanted so he is not used to other people challenging him or his claims. So now, for the first time, when he is not getting what he wants, he throws tantrums to persuade others to think that he is right. It seems like he never grew up, intellectually, past the age of 5.
PS: Thanks for the edit, Louie Torres!!
EDIT (2/17/2025): Wow! I wrote this answer 5 years ago during the height of Shitshow 1.0 and I’m flattered that you all find it true even today at the start of Shitshow 2.0. I keep thinking to myself, how the hell did we get back here? Looks like the MAGA cult will be here with us for a long time to come, even after Trump finally gets out of our lives. We are gonna need to stay sane while also resisting Trump and Musk with everything we have in us. To all those looking at the state of our country and ripping their hair out, I feel you. Personally, I’ve never felt so ashamed to be an American. Please make sure you rest well, take extra care of yourselves and your loved ones, and limit consumption of news and social media when the MAGA cult gets a little too much. We will need to do that in order to show up for one another and our democracy.
To all the Trump supporters reading this and getting your wittwe feewings hurt, GOOD! You deserve every bit of insult, isolation, and the contempt you receive from the rest of the world. Don’t even bother sliding in the comments section with your “Trump is smart because he got elected twice” bullshit that you KNOW is false. Him getting elected twice doesn’t make him smart, it just makes his supporters some of the stupidest fucking top-of-the-lungs-hateful gun-toting heads-up-their-asses-delusional pig-ignorant knuckle-dragging woman-hating cousin-fucking moronic subhumans on the planet. And don’t you dare attack the pronouns in my display name because I will block, mute, and report you. I’m no longer the tolerant liberal. I’m the fuck-off-and-die-you-racist-motherfucker liberal, and I have zero tolerance for you lot anymore. I truly wish you the very worst. You treat me like I’m the enemy? Now I will start acting like one. I hope you enjoy the inflation from the tariffs, restaurant closures after all the migrants are deported, the salmonella in your thanksgiving turkey after Trump defunds the FDA, and all the polio and measles outbreaks after Trump and RFK Jr. gut vaccination programs. Looks like that’s what we will need in order to reduce the number of stupid motherfuckers in this country. I no longer care what happens to you anymore, as long as you stay the fuck away from me.
The moment I heard him say “I have the best words”, all I could think was: Oh, the irony.
In the middle of making his claim, Trump, as usual, revealed his deficit. What he meant was that he has a big vocabulary. I can only suppose that the word vocabulary is not part of his lexicon, thus his resorting to “best words.”
Now, it’s good to remember given the turn of events the context in which Trump made his inane claim — in the midst of speech at a campaign rally while scolding the Democrats about Syria and what a mess they, by being “stupid”, had made of it. I suggest that if Trump does not bring
The moment I heard him say “I have the best words”, all I could think was: Oh, the irony.
In the middle of making his claim, Trump, as usual, revealed his deficit. What he meant was that he has a big vocabulary. I can only suppose that the word vocabulary is not part of his lexicon, thus his resorting to “best words.”
Now, it’s good to remember given the turn of events the context in which Trump made his inane claim — in the midst of speech at a campaign rally while scolding the Democrats about Syria and what a mess they, by being “stupid”, had made of it. I suggest that if Trump does not bring peace to Syria, we should all feel free to call him stupid — it’s the best word.
GIIIIIIIRL…. THEM WORDSALADS 😔
A wordsalad is basically when a narcissist is trying to “shed light" or darkness, for that matter, on a particular inquiry of yours, or an issue you have.
Here's an example:
Insignificant other:
No, you said you never spoke to that person
Narcissist:
Whether or not I spoke to that person doesn't matter.
I told you I didn't, that's what matters.
Saturday I went to the grocer
GIIIIIIIRL…. THEM WORDSALADS 😔
A wordsalad is basically when a narcissist is trying to “shed light" or darkness, for that matter, on a particular inquiry of yours, or an issue you have.
Here's an example:
Insignificant other:
No, you said you never spoke to that person
Narcissist:
Whether or not I spoke to that person doesn't matter.
I told you I didn't, that's what matters.
Saturday I went to the grocery store and the bag tore and all my lemons fell out of there.
That's when I saw that person.
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity, regardless of what others may do, you are destined for greatness.
Insignificant other:
What? What tf are you saying?
Narcissist:
Don't interrupt me. That's why you're confused, you never listen.
Yesterday my brother called, when you were in the shower.
He's picking me up later. I work hard everyday. I go to work and come back home, my brother wants to hang out.
It's 7 pm right now, I'm so tired.
You compromize your values over something stupid like this. It's ridiculous. If you don't want me laughing at you then don't be so dumb.
What you looking at me for like that? This is exactly what I mean.
If you can't say anything nice then don't speak.
Insignificant other:
I wasn't speaking.
Narcissists:
This is a two way street you know. And whe...
Because he is profoundly unintelligent, has no intellectual pursuits, doesn’t read, and his tiny, childish vocabulary reflects that.
Well, most of them are actually words.
It is the way that they are put together that is alarming.
There doesn’t seem to be anything like structure to his speech when he speaks off the cuff. He rambles, he burbles, he says things that seem like they might mean something or they might not. He says that things happened when they didn’t. He insinuates and says that he doesn’t know, it’s just something he heard.
And he keeps on bringing the conversation back to his favourite topic: himself.
No. If you look at interviews Trump did in the 90’s, he was soft-spoken and eloquent. Now he is a raging, madman. Read the list of symptoms and think about Trump’s boorish behavior-like a 2 year-old having a tantrum.
No. If you look at interviews Trump did in the 90’s, he was soft-spoken and eloquent. Now he is a raging, madman. Read the list of symptoms and think about Trump’s boorish behavior-like a 2 year-old having a tantrum.
This is all this babbling nincompoop knows how to do. He has no real policies to speak of, unless he stole the idea from someone else. His latest stolen idea is his rant about not taxing Social Security payments. Wow what an original idea. Too bad it's been suggested by Democrats for decades, and rejected by every Republican Congress.
There's not much this fool can talk about, since he can't string more than three words together. He has the intelligence if a fruit fly, and yet he has the audacity to call Kamala Harris a woman of low intelligence. Really? Tell him to call up the Dean at Howard U
This is all this babbling nincompoop knows how to do. He has no real policies to speak of, unless he stole the idea from someone else. His latest stolen idea is his rant about not taxing Social Security payments. Wow what an original idea. Too bad it's been suggested by Democrats for decades, and rejected by every Republican Congress.
There's not much this fool can talk about, since he can't string more than three words together. He has the intelligence if a fruit fly, and yet he has the audacity to call Kamala Harris a woman of low intelligence. Really? Tell him to call up the Dean at Howard University and ask him what he thought of Ms. Harris. She wasn't the Attorney General of California for a lack of intellect.
RUMP can babble all he wants, but it won't change who she is, what she stands for, or how popular she had become. The guy is shitting his pants because he now realizes what a formidable opponent she is, and she has suddenly stolen the spotlight from him. She has only been in the race for a few weeks, and suddenly she's now the leading candidate in the race for President. Almost every poll including all of the swing states, has her leading now by nearly 5 points.
He has no idea how to handle her and it's driving him crazy.
Keep calling her names and making fun of everything she does, asshole. She's loving every minute of it!
Experts have studied him and say he speaks and comprehends on a fourth grade le...
I think Trump’s vocabulary in his tweets is really special but…it works.
I call it GTTP vocabulary. Get to the Point.
The reason why his vocabulary style is so basic is because it appeals to people who are real life tl;dr comments. They dont like a politician who explains thing using a great amount of detail with a smart use of formal vocabulary as that can be boring. Trump, being the orange orangutan he is, doesn't use proper formal vocabulary and instead goes straight from the beginning of his point, skipping all of the basic needs to establish and support his original point and moves on to ex
I think Trump’s vocabulary in his tweets is really special but…it works.
I call it GTTP vocabulary. Get to the Point.
The reason why his vocabulary style is so basic is because it appeals to people who are real life tl;dr comments. They dont like a politician who explains thing using a great amount of detail with a smart use of formal vocabulary as that can be boring. Trump, being the orange orangutan he is, doesn't use proper formal vocabulary and instead goes straight from the beginning of his point, skipping all of the basic needs to establish and support his original point and moves on to explain the effects of his point.
Lets examine a tweet
States his point
He begins the tweet by stating that CNN is doing polls again but is annoyed because their election polls were inaccurate.
Backing up his point
He says that they were way off. Thats it. No more evidence to back up his original point.
The effect
This tweet is special because you can see a common word he likes to use. Disaster. He must like using a word that really does explain how well his Trumpcare plan went.
Overall, people will believe almost anything this guy says because uses a lot of emotive words like disaster or imploding as it really does spark some sort of effect. All it really takes is a little research and time and you can find out that this man tends to speak a lot of BS without giving any support to his statements AKA wiretapping.
George Takei can also summarise his sentence structure for me.
Because he IS a babbling idiot!
Because he IS a babbling idiot!
He obviously has dementia, and it is progressing. Donald Trump was never what you’d call brilliant, but he used to speak in complete sentences and be able to stay on a subject of conversation. Listen to the tapes of Trump giving interviews back in the 1980s. There’s a drastic difference.
He has to keep things simple for a lot of people.
Media w...
I think differently. I don’t have any evidence but I discussed this with a psychologist/speech specialist some time ago.
If you’ve seen Trump’s interviews with Oprah from the 80s,
you will see that he was saying the same things that he says today but he was able to complete sentences and he was more focused while answering questions, making him seem eloquent.
Today, he can’t finish sentences; can’t stick to a topic; uses far simpler language; repeats himself a lot; contradicts himself in the same sentence, etc. He is only 70, which is old but not geriatric. So I
I think differently. I don’t have any evidence but I discussed this with a psychologist/speech specialist some time ago.
If you’ve seen Trump’s interviews with Oprah from the 80s,
you will see that he was saying the same things that he says today but he was able to complete sentences and he was more focused while answering questions, making him seem eloquent.
Today, he can’t finish sentences; can’t stick to a topic; uses far simpler language; repeats himself a lot; contradicts himself in the same sentence, etc. He is only 70, which is old but not geriatric. So I believe there is mental degeneration and something medically wrong. His medical certificate during the elections was clearly self written. No doctor would call results of all medical tests “positive”, which would mean that he HAS all the diseases for which he was tested. So he is hiding something very serious, just like he is hiding his taxes.
Addendum:
I saw this expert opinion on television. Dr. Bandy Lee is a psychiatrist at Yale University. She presents the assessment from 27 psychiatrists with support from 4,000 other psychiatrists who feel it is their duty to speak out in the public interest. Psychiatrists don’t give professional opinions till they have personally examined someone but Trump has been observable over years so psychiatrists feel confident of their diagnosis and in feel that silence is more harmful than providing a public opinion of their diagnosis. This is related to his declining ability to form cogent arguments, speak clearly, and use a more-than-simplistic vocabulary.
I don't want to be flipant about this, but I think it is because he has lived a life sheltered by great wealth and has never had to really grow up. He sounds 15 years old because he thinks like a (very immature) 15 year old.
He is aiding and abetting cruel English teachers across the U.S. who point to his speeches and tell their students: Diagram that!
More seriously, his abilities are slipping away. I worry about his doing serious damage to the country as he declines.
When Trump grows folksy in his speeches, he bears a resemblance to the Borscht Belt comedians of the 50s and 60s, who would deliver patter, punctuated with one-liners, in comedy reviews at Catskill Mountain resorts. Unlike your successful comedian, Trump, being a very stable genius, doesn’t need to prepare his lines in advance. The truth is whatever dribbles off his tongue.
Alas, if only we could neutralize Trump’s magnetic appeal by tossing water on it, or by injecting him with bleach.
No, he is stupid - stupid but cunning (in the business/legal environment he grew up in).
He learned to lie and to be deceitful from his father Fred.
So if he has to pay someone his immediate tactic is to delay and hope that he can pay less or even not at all if his contractor gives up or goes out of business.
It doesn't worry him if one of his businesses goes bankrupt as long as he was able to extract cash from it first.
It is hard to tell whether his disjointed stumbling manner of speaking is because of stupidity, lack of education or simply tripping up over the lies he has told.
Is he OK ? No, he
No, he is stupid - stupid but cunning (in the business/legal environment he grew up in).
He learned to lie and to be deceitful from his father Fred.
So if he has to pay someone his immediate tactic is to delay and hope that he can pay less or even not at all if his contractor gives up or goes out of business.
It doesn't worry him if one of his businesses goes bankrupt as long as he was able to extract cash from it first.
It is hard to tell whether his disjointed stumbling manner of speaking is because of stupidity, lack of education or simply tripping up over the lies he has told.
Is he OK ? No, he definitely isn't OK. You can't trust anything he says, and he will go on telling more and more convoluted and implausible lies to his dying day, in my opinion.
Some people say he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's or some other disease that is impacting his mental capacity.
That may well be true, but it cannot be the full story. It doesn't account for the outrageous lies he tells, his ridiculous claims (a complete healthcare plan within the next two weeks, for example) or his willingness to ignore the Constitution in his bid to regain and then remain in power.
One thing is or should be clear. He is extremely dangerous and shouldn't be allowed near the Presidency or any other public office.
He’s smart enough to be deliberately evasive, use language that can be interpreted in more ways than one, and tell an outright lie in such a way that it can be explained in different ways. Look at over the years how so-called preachers have swindled people out of tons of money by being persuasive, telling people what they want to hear, making promises they can’t possibly keep, etc. Trump would have made a great swindler.
Because he has the vocabulary of a 3rd grader. Too bad he does not possess the same IQ.
Not much. I worry more about his deeds.
Lack of education. My great aunt would have used a very non pc phrase. It would be something like ‘bless that boy's heart. He's a mental midget” in her New Orleans accent.
Trump seems to believe that when he uses a word which “magnifies”, that such magnification transfers to the concept he is addressing. When Putin denied interfearing with our elections Trump said that his denial was very “strong” and “powerful” - suggesting that a “powerful” denial has a more potent meaning than a simple “denial”. He might have said “vehement” but I don’t think he has that particular word in his vocabulary yet. When Trump says he had a “tremendous” meeting with Putin he is trying to imply that what was discussed was of great import but, of course, he fails to detail just exactl
Trump seems to believe that when he uses a word which “magnifies”, that such magnification transfers to the concept he is addressing. When Putin denied interfearing with our elections Trump said that his denial was very “strong” and “powerful” - suggesting that a “powerful” denial has a more potent meaning than a simple “denial”. He might have said “vehement” but I don’t think he has that particular word in his vocabulary yet. When Trump says he had a “tremendous” meeting with Putin he is trying to imply that what was discussed was of great import but, of course, he fails to detail just exactly what was “tremendous” about the meeting. Trump thinks that he and his abilities are bigger than than anyone elses so he uses words that imply bigger and better than anyone else. Huge, fantastic , unbelievable, greatest -all non-specific terms which, in the absense of specifics, is simply a “claim” of significant accomplishment. Pretty much what you’d expect from an empty barrel.