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TRUMP’S COGNITIVE DECLINE IS ON FULL DISPLAY  
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Rex Huppke
August 11, 2025
USA Today
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_ Trump thought he was meeting Putin in Russia. He rambled
incoherently during a nationally televised news conference. His
performance leaves no doubt: the man’s brain has turned to oatmeal.
It's time for the press to push back. _

Trump thought his Alaska meeting with Putin was taking place in
Russia, screen grab

 

During President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s sending
the National Guard to Washington, DC
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to fight a crime wave that isn’t real
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it became clear he has caught Sleepy Joe Biden
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much-ballyhooed cognitive decline.

I’m not sure how it happened. I imagine the liberals figured out a
way to make a concerning lack of mental acuity contagious.

But whatever the cause, hearing the president ramble incoherently
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a nationally televised news conference on Monday, Aug. 11, left no
doubt: The man’s brain has turned to oatmeal.

For starters, on two occasions Trump told reporters
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meeting in days with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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meeting will be held in Alaska, which, unless Trump has given away one
of America’s states to Putin, is very much not in Russia.

A mistake like that from President Biden would have prompted
Republicans to launch a congressional investigation into his
competency and CNN’s Jake Tapper to pen a book
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the presidential competency scandal of a generation. Two mistakes like
that from Biden would have effectively spun the U.S. news media into a
months-long cyclone of speculation and hysteria.

Remember how important mental decline was when Biden was president

So I’m sure all Americans who have displayed deep concern about the
importance of world-leader lucidity will meet the moment with an
appropriate number of gasps, pearl clutches and calls for an immediate
mental-fitness exam.

Because the “I’m going to Russia!” confusion was just a part
of Trump’s troubling Aug. 11 performance
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Trump's word salad answers are getting more concerning

Asked a specific question about whether other cities like Chicago and
Los Angeles might expect similar action involving the use of the
National Guard
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combat crime, Trump said, in part, this:

“But when I look at Chicago and I look at LA, if we didn’t go to
LA three months ago, LA would be burning like the part that didn’t
burn. If you would’ve allowed the water to come down, which I told
them about in my first term, I said, 'You’re going to have problems,
let it come down'. We actually sent in our military to have the water
come down into LA. They still didn’t want it to come down after the
fires. But that was it, we have it coming down. But hopefully LA is
watching. That mayor also, the city is burning, they lost like 25,000
homes. I went there the day after the fire, you were there, and I saw
people standing in front of a burned-down home. Their homes were
incinerated, they weren’t like, even the steel, literally it was all
warped, literally disintegrated because of the winds and the flames
like a blow torch. They were standing on this beautiful day, maybe a
couple of days after, we gave it a little time because of what they
had suffered. Almost 25,000 homes. And you see what’s happening now,
they didn’t give their permits. I went to a town hall meeting I said
we’re going to get you the federal permit, which are much harder.”

That’s the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult
decision about grandpa’s future. That it came from a sitting
president waging domestic war against a crime emergency in a city that
currently does not have a crime emergency
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at best, troubling.

Time for the 'Biden is incompetent' folks to perk up

I wish a reporter had asked Trump what “LA would be burning like the
part that didn’t burn” means. I wish a reporter had asked the
president if the DC crime wave he kept referring to was in the room
with them as they spoke.

But there was no pushback.

The Fox News folks and the right-wing radio squawkers and the
Republicans who called the former president a dithering old fool need
to start worrying about the competency of the current president.

You know, the one who’s going to Alaska and thinks he’s going to
Russia. The one who answers a question about sending the National
Guard to U.S. cities by babbling about water, fires and federal
building permits. The one who has clearly gone, as critics of
Biden’s mental acuity would call it, “full Sleepy Joe.”

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