Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history
Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history
Joe Biden's age was his biggest liability — now Democrats can flip the script on arguments that Biden was too old to lead and apply them to Trump.
- At 78 years old, former President Donald Trump is now the oldest nominee running for president.
- Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, 59.
- If she becomes the Democratic nominee, Harris' age could be an advantage against Trump.
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At least his sentences are coherent /s
It's fucking wild that conservatives listen to Trump and hear an intelligent and coherent person.
He said this in 2016:
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.
He was still elected.
I love these transcripts, they always sound like a conversation some rambling old man is having with his hospice nurse.
Ok Mr. Trump, very good. Now take your medications.
This article is seven years old now, but it sticks in my memory all the same: French translator Bérengère Viennot on the difficulties of trying to represent Trump's manner of speech in another language
I wish to point out that he was in his early 70s at the time, generally a bit early for that level of impairment.
generally a bit early for that level of impairment.
Well, assuming the impairment is age-related and not just, you know, built in
True, although if you watch him over the years, especially between 2016 and now, there's been a huge amount of noticeable cognitive decline.
He forgot his own wife's name. He called her Mercedes.
Yeah it's true that while he was never exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, he does seem to have gotten a lot worse fairly quickly. Might be COVID, it's been linked to cognitive decline and I've definitely seen that in my own parents who are no spring chicken
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
It’s like an LLM is responding to a Markov chain with an LLM-generated Markov chain.
IMO the more amazing thing is that he's since referenced his uncle multiple times as proof that he himself is smart.
Like, aside from all the crazy rambling, he buys into eugenics to such an extent that he thinks his uncle being smart necessarily means that he is also smart. And, he assumes his audience will also believe that intelligence is a hereditary trait like that.
Apparently they do believe it. Either that or they just accept that he does and don't care. But I'd say believing in eugenics is more likely.
No, it's that they hear someone they understand. "He says it like it is," is white people speak for "his words aren't confusing me." Bc really all Don ever does is tell a story like a trailer park kid. It speaks to their biases and emotions and that's all they care about
I doubt most of them listen to him at all. They listen to Fox or Newsmax or whatever social media, who only cherrypick the fragments that sound vaguely coherent, and conversely only played the pieces of Biden's speeches that were incoherent. They either don't realize or don't care that they're not looking at the whole picture.
Honestly I think it's just that they don't care: Trump is the Führer and everything he does is perfect
I expect that they are hearing but not listening
I actually laughed the first time I heard a Trump fan claim Biden was incoherent. I honestly thought they were kidding.
Nope, dead serious. "Have you ever heard Trump talk?" Silence.
Gettysburg… wow
Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was, the battle at Gettysburg, what an unbelievable. I mean, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Never fight uphill me boys!
ME BOYS
What's the nearest airport and to Gettysburg?
There isn't one.
I felt a blood vessel pop in my brain just trying to read that.