#mentalacuity — Public Fediverse posts

"new economic data paint an equally alarming picture of national decline. And as the fallout grows, Trump and his allies are scrambling for scapegoats, spinning conspiracy theories, and doubling down on racist rhetoric in a way that endangers not just our democracy, but the safety and dignity of millions of Americans."

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #MentalAcuity #economy #CabinetMeeting
/12

"This morning offered yet another sobering snapshot of a country in crisis under Donald Trump. While world headlines focus on the Trump’s visibly deteriorating physical and mental condition, including Der Spiegel documenting Trump nodding off during a disastrous cabinet meeting," (continued in /12)

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #MentalAcuity #economy #CabinetMeeting
/11

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-afternoon-news-updates-c0d

“In short, the Cabinet meeting is a lens through which the chaos and dysfunction of the Trump administration can be viewed. It is not a pretty sight. Indeed, never in our nation’s history has such supreme incompetence and monstrous depravity so thoroughly disgraced a meeting of the Cabinet officers of the United States.”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/10

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/tuesdays-cabinet-meeting-equal-parts

"When he did rouse himself, he launched into meandering stories about cognitive tests he claims to have 'aced,' insisting they contain questions so difficult that '99% of the people from the fake news' would fail."

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/9

"Just hours after posting up to 400 deranged social media messages overnight, pushing conspiracies about Michelle Obama secretly running the Biden White House, he arrived late to his own cabinet meeting. As members spoke, he repeatedly drifted into sleep."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/8

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/dr-gupta-trumps-mri-excuse-raises

"Trump is barely alive, and almost unresponsive to this firehose of putrid adulation that used to inject him with life.

I’m really not sure whether to laugh or cry at this theater of the completely absurd I am witnessing, but I’m pretty sure indifference can’t be a viable option."

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/7

"While he fights sleep, his grotesque collection of anti-vaxxers, stone-cold bigots, crooks, and multi-millionaires and billionaires in his cabinet are showering him with praise for the stellar job he is doing heaping all his hate on the world, while stuffing his bottomless pockets with millions and millions in kickbacks and blood money."

~ D. Earl Stephens

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/6

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/the-bulldozer

"Trump could not stay awake while his Cabinet members were praising him, and so we had the wild visual of Secretary of State Marco Rubio praising Trump as the only man who could end Russia’s war in Ukraine, gesturing at the president sitting next to him, who was, to all appearances, sound asleep.”

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity #MarcoRubio
/5

“Trump is slipping. After he drew attention by posting wildly on social media last night, today’s meeting was clearly designed to demonstrate that the president is alert, active, and on top of things. But this made-for-television photo opportunity was anything but a display of competence:"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/4

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-2-2025

"Trump faced ridicule for falling asleep during the cabinet meeting today after Kristi Noem suggested that Trump is the reason no hurricanes hit America."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity #KristiNoem
/3

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-and-hegseth-hit-with-first

"The last hour, his eyes were closed 80% of the time as he sat there with two Band-Aids on his hand."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/2

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-262-12225

"The president leaned forward, leaned back, twiddled his thumbs, and did everything in between as his eyelids grew heavy in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon Cabinet meeting. As each of his Cabinet members gave him an update on how great everything is going, the president looked more and more exhausted, his eyes fully closed at several points."

~ Malcolm Ferguson

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
/1

https://newrepublic.com/post/203865/trump-falls-asleep-cabinet-meeting

"It’s clear that millions of Americans don’t care that Trump is ostensibly mentally unfit to be president. Neither do the leaders of his party. But if American democracy winds up surviving this existential jousting, the public should demand that measures be put in place to avoid allowing mentally unstable or cognitively unwell people to sit behind the most powerful desk in the world ever again."

~ Kim Wehle

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cognitive-fitness-mental-health-test-president-trump-biden

"Trump seems to have little interest in doing the actual work of campaigning, instead swinging between grievance-filled rants and flat recitations of his apocalyptic worldview, trying to stay in the center of public consciousness with outrageous lies and, as he did in his suggestion that he would not debate Harris, telling people to 'stay tuned!'”

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/3

"Over the past few years, observers who have been paying attention to Trump have noted that he appeared to be sliding mentally and warned that when voters saw him again outside his Mar-a-Lago cocoon and his rallies they would be shocked. That prediction appears to have come true."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/2

Heather Cox Richardson points to what the Harris campaign says as Trump tries to weasel out of debating Harris:

“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2024

"While rambling discourse and outrageously disprovable claims, interspersed with spite and vitriol, may seem nothing new to many of Trump’s supporters and critics alike, the former president appears to have been driven to new depths by suddenly finding himself running against Kamala Harris a month ago."

#Trump #age #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/3

"While Biden’s run for re-election was largely sunk by a single disastrous televised debate before a national audience, Trump is ramping up doubts with each chaotic, disjointed speech as he campaigns around the country."

#Trump #age #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/2

"Earlier this week, a JL Partners poll for the Daily Mail showed the number of American voters who have confidence that Trump is able to fully digest national security briefings, maintain attention in meetings and remember the names of world leaders he is talking to – and who have confidence that he will still be alive in four years – has dropped sharply since March."

~ Chris McGreal

#Trump #age #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/24/donald-trump-mental-fitness-campaign