Jonathan Last, writing for The Bulwark:
The president of the United States gave a speech yesterday before
a group of McDonald’s corporate workers and franchise owners. I’m
going to quote a few sections of his remarks at great length,
because if you have not listened to Trump speaking recently, the
decline in his cognitive abilities is a bit shocking.The point of this exercise is not to clown on Trump, but to give
everyone a baseline understanding of where he is, with the
mentals, as we try to understand how he will respond to increasing
pressures in the coming months.The video of his remarks is here and I’ll include timestamps
for each section, in case you want to see what he looks and
sounds like.Bottom line: This is a man in noticeable mental decline.
Even those of us who see that Trump is spiraling into dementia are inured to listening to him speak like this. Reading the transcript is jarring. Also jarring: listening to Juliet Jeske’s performative reading of a particularly nonsensical portion of Trump’s McDonald’s speech. It’s just gibberish.
