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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Don’t You Think He Looks… Tired?

Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Don’t You Think He Looks… Tired?

by Anne Laurie|  August 30, 20193:24 am| 32 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!, Trumpery, All Too Normal, Clap Louder!, Decline and Fall

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Trump is speaking very deliberately and seems to be having a hard time today pic.twitter.com/C6fbhOBsAG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 29, 2019

Compare and contrast: Trump speaking during his June 2015 campaign launch speech vs. Trump speaking today pic.twitter.com/TTG5EArhJZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 29, 2019

Guess it’s true that the rigors of the office ages every president, even the ones who don’t even pretend to be doing the job (looking at you, Warren G!).

Actually, I’d assume yesterday’s performance just meant his handlers have been recalibrating whatever mixture of pharmaceuticals they use to keep him more-or-less on topic and in line… but even the intimation that he’s losing it is bound to drive Tang the Conqueror further out of his tiny mind, so let’s all speculate!

I’m not sure that’s right https://t.co/ViJrzmZP2I

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 29, 2019

Decompensation or not, he’s not a happy camper right now, and November 2020 is still a long way down the road for a guy who gets bored so easily…

Here's the text of Trump's video message on the hurricane: pic.twitter.com/oPDwCdS0bN

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 30, 2019

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  1. 1.

    tokyokie

    August 30, 2019 at 3:42 am

    I think back to the closeups from the pictures in front of a congregation in his golf duds a few weeks ago. Without his customary 2 inches of pancake makeup, he looks absolutely pallorous, ashen gray, and waxy. The only other person I’ve seen who looked like that was my father as he was bidding me farewell at the airport years ago. He suffered a fatal MI a few weeks later.

    Anyway, I’m not sure it’s dementia as much as it’s extraordinarily poor cardiovascular condition. But a significant reduction in brain perfusion can cause brain damage, so I’m guessing it’s both.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2019 at 3:57 am

    In news of very slightly more interest than the state of Trump’s feeble mind, I think my guitar multi-FX pedal is on the fritz. It does not seem to be passing guitar signal to the amp.

    Poor widdle Trumpie. He’s supposed to be Boss of The Whole Wide World. But no one listens to him. No one likes him. People are making fun of him to his face. He’s bored. He’s tired. This is no fun anymore. But he can’t take his toys and go home, because the Boss of The Whole Wide World doesn’t get to do that. That makes a kid unhappy.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    August 30, 2019 at 3:57 am

    A federal court ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capitol One had to give Congress his tax returns. It’ll be appealed, but he has to feel the walls closing a bit with the polls getting worse.

  4. 4.

    Sloane Ranger

    August 30, 2019 at 4:21 am

    I read somewhere, here? that Dorien is going to hit Mar a Largo “dead centre”. This might be a contributing factor. The Chosen One has realised that he is as subject to the vicissitudes of nature as lesser people?

    To all jackals in Dorian’s path, stay safe.

  5. 5.

    opiejeanne

    August 30, 2019 at 4:27 am

    @Sloane Ranger: If it hits either of his properties it’s a chance for him to claim a huge amount of damage even if there is none. He’s done it before to the tune of $17 million, when the only damage were some trees blown down and a few roof tiles loosened.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    August 30, 2019 at 4:28 am

    @Sloane Ranger:
    It’s a shame Trump won’t be there when it hits.

  7. 7.

    Chyron HR

    August 30, 2019 at 4:31 am

    “It’s going to be big, a big tornado, everybody says I have the biggest disasters, you know Obama’s wasn’t as big as mine, big men who never cried with tears in their eyes saying sir, thank you for making this disaster great.”

  8. 8.

    Mandalay

    August 30, 2019 at 4:48 am

    Maybe Randy Rainbow’s finest effort to date?…

    Cheeto Christ Stupid-Czar

  9. 9.

    M. Bouffant

    August 30, 2019 at 5:19 am

    “That was not good“: He’s getting closer to Double Speak every day.

  10. 10.

    SectionH

    August 30, 2019 at 5:21 am

    @Mandalay: TY! I’m gonna watch it again because I love it so much. I shared it yesterday on the Twit machine, mostly so I could find it again.

    (it’s “… with pumpkin-spice” that cracks me up every time.)

  11. 11.

    Jeffery

    August 30, 2019 at 5:26 am

    He’s exhausted with all the globetrotting he’s been doing. Add morbidly obese to being 73 and it’s a heart attack or stroke waiting to happen.

  12. 12.

    sukabi

    August 30, 2019 at 5:38 am

    @Jeffery: think it’s more the old syphilic hamsters powering his brain pan have worn out from all the coke and addera11 he stuffs up his nose.

  13. 13.

    MagdaInBlack

    August 30, 2019 at 5:54 am

    @tokyokie:
    Vasular dementia.

  14. 14.

    BC in Illinois

    August 30, 2019 at 6:21 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    But he can’t take his toys and go home, because the Boss of The Whole Wide World doesn’t get to do that.

    Also, the moment that he’s no longer Boss of the World and — more importantly — Boss of the Attorney General and his minions, the legal trouble he will face, post White House, will be immense. All it will take is one discovery, one disclosure, and his whole criminal enterprise will come to light and come crashing down.

    It is my contention that in three years, the Trump name will be on nothing.

    No building.
    No golf course.
    No casino.
    No street.
    No vodka.
    No university.
    No airline.
    No football team.
    No steak.
    No tie.
    No deodorant.
    No game.
    No bottled water.
    Nothing.

    I cannot imagine him retiring within the United States, going to the theatre, making occasional speeches [cf. the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, George Bush (?)] or devoting himself to good works and positive foundations [cf. the Carters, the Clintons, the Obamas]. I can’t imagine him retiring within the United States at all (especially not within the Southern District of New York).

    [This may be just my wishful thinking, my “Let the Sunshine In” fantasy, but one has to have hope.* There’s just so much to un-do.]

    * And I hope that someone is working on the upcoming book, Failure: The Donald Trump Story.

  15. 15.

    Ken

    August 30, 2019 at 6:49 am

    @M. Bouffant: If you mean 1984, “Newspeak” was the Party’s language that used “ungood” instead of “bad”. “Doublethink” was the mental discipline that allowed believing two or more contradictory things at once.

    In this case it’s neither, it’s sundowning.

  16. 16.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 30, 2019 at 7:13 am

    Dear Hurricane Dorian,

    Mar a Logo’s location is:
    26.6771º N
    80.0370º W

    But please divert around any of our Florida Jackals.

  17. 17.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 30, 2019 at 8:16 am

    I picture the G7 at Doral during hurricane season, ie this time of year, which is when it’s held. Not a good idea.

  18. 18.

    sdhays

    August 30, 2019 at 8:36 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: With all that ample parking available, it would still be worth it.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 30, 2019 at 8:45 am

    But he has the bigliest stamina! Apparently sucking so much dictator ass and rage tweeting is doing a number on him.

    He could just give up being a Soviet shitpile mobster conman and resign.

  20. 20.

    artem1s

    August 30, 2019 at 8:50 am

    that ‘speech’ is the equivalent of a 4th grader giving a book report. His vocabulary is deplorable. To think we once had leaders who could quote Aeschylus off the cuff and who had some understanding of historical context. We have become a nation of Know Nothings who worship ignorance, greed, and cruelty. He’s not self aware enough to go away and his family will use him for their own grifting purposes for the rest of eternity. We will never be rid of this stain on our national conscious. Likening him to Hitler is too generous. We’ve let Ernst Rohm take over.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 30, 2019 at 8:52 am

    @BC in Illinois:

    I cannot imagine him retiring within the United States, going to the theatre, making occasional speeches [cf. the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, George Bush (?)] or devoting himself to good works and positive foundations [cf. the Carters, the Clintons, the Obamas]. I can’t imagine him retiring within the United States at all (especially not within the Southern District of New York).

    Does being put on trial for crimes against humanity count as retiring?

  22. 22.

    jonas

    August 30, 2019 at 8:54 am

    I think there’s a pretty basic breakdown to understanding when the president is at least partially coherent and when he’s “WTF where are the men in white coats with nets?” When he’s talking — or rather bullshitting — about himself, he’s interested in that and can string a few well-practiced sentences together to boast about the incredible buffet at Mar-a-Lago or something. When he has to speak on any other issue not primarily about himself or his own delusions of grandeur, he’s bored, uninterested, and struggles because he has to rely on notes or a script which he cannot really read (he’s functionally illiterate), and he knows nothing about the subject at hand. So we get the slow, stammering, word salads of a sundowning fish out of water in a world he never made.

  23. 23.

    FlyingToaster (Tablet)

    August 30, 2019 at 9:44 am

    I cannot imagine him retiring within the United States

    Trump hates everywhere else. I expect he’s got the pardon-himself papers ready to sign on 1/20/21 on his way out the door, and splits his remaining time between Bedminster and Mar a Lago. And buried at Bedminster.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 30, 2019 at 10:00 am

    @FlyingToaster (Tablet):

    And buried at Bedminster.

    And promptly dug up before the dirt settles and thrown into a volcano.

  25. 25.

    Rob Massing

    August 30, 2019 at 10:25 am

    But the lies and exaggerations remain consistent

  26. 26.

    stinger

    August 30, 2019 at 10:52 am

    @sdhays: LOL. My fear is that he’ll say, “I’m the host, it’s my party, so I can invite whomever I want.” And invite Putin.

  27. 27.

    opiejeanne

    August 30, 2019 at 11:17 am

    @stinger: I thought he already said that.

  28. 28.

    sdhays

    August 30, 2019 at 11:53 am

    @stinger: If he does it up front, he risks having a boycott by the other nations, which would be pretty embarrassing for him, right before an election. But Putin could be “a surprise guest”.

  29. 29.

    TenguPhule

    August 30, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    And promptly dug up before the dirt settles and thrown into a volcano.

    We told you, we don’t want him!

  30. 30.

    mr gravity

    August 30, 2019 at 1:35 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: What did volcanoes ever do to you?

  31. 31.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 30, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    @Jeffery: This too:

    Add morbidly obtuse

  32. 32.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    August 30, 2019 at 8:57 pm

    @FlyingToaster (Tablet): Please, God, no.
    Bedminster is just up the road.
    And I’m sure there are plenty of Bedminsterites who would be deeply repelled by such an idea. Like torches-&-pitchforks repelled.

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