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struggle4progress

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Sat May 24, 2025, 03:04 PM May 2025

rump dementia fears as brain misfires [View all]

Story by Yelena Mandenberg & Jack Hobbs • 3d

... As Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they were financing a $175 billion project to build a missile defense system, the U.S. President's word choices sparked new dementia fears.

After announcing the plan to build a $175 billion 'Golden Dome' to press in the White House's Oval Office on Thursday, Trump directed everyone to look at the portraits around his desk. He named the first two Presidents no problem, but then began to stutter when he got to Monroe.

"That's Monroe from the ... uh ... Monroe docu... document," Trump finally said. Unlike Joe Biden, who always had a stutter, the sudden inability to recall elementary school facts about the Monroe Doctrine has sparked new fears of his mental state online. It comes just days after Trump was branded the "dumbest president ever" ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-dementia-fears-as-brain-misfires-in-worrying-oval-office-announcement/ar-AA1F9vGR

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rump dementia fears as brain misfires [View all] struggle4progress May 2025 OP
And Maga Maga loves the incoherent shit that comes out of his keyhole Walleye May 2025 #1
WTF. In an unbelievable showing of stupidity, Donald Trump admits he doesn't know where the Congo in Africa is: "many Celerity May 2025 #2
not WHERE Skittles May 2025 #3
Congo. I don't know where that is..... usedtobedemgurl May 2025 #12
not WHERE Skittles May 2025 #16
It's a dance Mossfern May 2025 #18
*SNORT* Skittles May 2025 #19
I cannot love this reply enough! usedtobedemgurl May 2025 #21
It's painful to read bif May 2025 #4
So why so many bdamomma May 2025 #17
People knew NJCher May 2025 #27
"And I gotta show you this here, the Magna Carta DavidDvorkin May 2025 #5
Rick Wilson has an interesting take PJMcK May 2025 #6
The felon's bdamomma May 2025 #20
trump has dementia LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #7
he has "stage 9" dementia ParanoidAndroid May 2025 #15
"It's almost as if Trump has cognitive deficiencies, which from what I hear on CNN is a major scandal." - MSNBC sop May 2025 #8
Fears? How about blatant reality? SheltieLover May 2025 #9
Doesn't matter. He could get down on his knees and lick the floor behind a toilet... harumph May 2025 #10
All the chat about Biden is projection because malaise May 2025 #11
This is a prime example of being so stupid, that it hurts! SWBTATTReg May 2025 #13
I'm only surprised he didn't start raving about Marilyn Monroe. tanyev May 2025 #14
😂😂 too funny 😂🤣 he's the Tickle May 2025 #22
Buh bye RandiFan1290 May 2025 #23
Here since 12/3/21, eh? PCIntern May 2025 #24
Jake Tapper-STAT durablend May 2025 #25
"A Demented NAZI Traitor Shall Lead Them" Kid Berwyn May 2025 #26
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