The White House shouldn’t be used as the most expensive assisted living facility in the world, but that seems to be what’s happening under Donald Trump’s second administration.
The president was showing signs of decline when he ran for the White House in 2024. Trump consistently got the facts wrong, forgot names, and mixed up basic history to the point where he once blamed Joe Biden for World War II.
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If the American people had been paying attention, and if Democrats deserved blame for being afraid to explicitly and repeatedly denounce Trump’s decline with voters, they would have seen that Trump was cognitively fit to serve as president.
Trump made decision after decision, from his obsession with tariffs and willful blindness to expert advice that it would cause serious economic damage, to believing Netanyahu and going to war with Iran, which demonstrated a serious lack of mental competence on the part of the White House.
The president spent Friday trying to make believe there was an agreement ending the war in Iran, where he got everything he wanted. The stock market surged even after the media debunked many of his claims about a peace deal with Iran.
Turns out Friday was the opening act, as Trump showed on Saturday just how much he is in decline.