Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

'Trump is insane': President ridiculed for incoherent’ appearance on Fox News




The mental acuity of the leader of the free world was called into question after Donald Trump had an “incoherent” response to a softball question.

“If you’re given four more years, what will this country look like, in your view, four years from now?” Sean Hannity asked.

Trump repeated many of his unkept promises from 2016 that he has failed to deliver while — complaining about “globalists.”

“We’re going to be respected — and we are now by other countries, they’re respecting us more than they have in many, many decades,” Trump argued, despite America being pitied globally for Trump’s bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In June, Trump also flopped after being asked as softball question from Hannity on his vision for a second term.

Here’s some of what people were saying about Trump’s Fox News appearance in link below:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-is-insane-president-ridiculed-for-incoherent-appearance-on-fox-news/



'A National Humiliation': America mocked for Trump and his ‘shaky mental state'




Donald Trump’s focus on defending his mental stability has been a catastrophe for America during a pandemic and economic crisis.

“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. Sadly, I suspect I don’t need to explain what I’m referring to here. If you’re reading this, you most likely already know what these five words are: a direct quote from President Trump, who told a visibly discomfited Fox News interviewer the other night that he had aced a mental-acuity test by correctly reciting them,” Susan Glasser wrote in The New Yorker.

“Yes, it has once again come to this: the President of the United States bragging—twice, just this week, in Fox interviews—that he does not have dementia and daring Joe Biden to take the same cognitive test,” she explained. “But Trump’s mental state has long been the elephant in the room for Republicans, and it’s not surprising that most G.O.P. officials refuse to mention it. Yet many Republicans have—brazenly, under the circumstances—followed Trump in questioning the fitness for office of Biden, a gaffe-prone septuagenarian who would be the oldest person elected to the Presidency should he beat Trump in November. If the stakes weren’t so very, very high, the entire debate that Trump insists on having over which of our Presidential candidates is possibly senile would be exactly the sort of public car crash from which you’d want to avert your eyes. It’s a national humiliation, an embarrassment. Can’t we just make it stop?”

“But this is one of those weeks in Trump’s America that does not allow for escapism. The actual news is as bad as Trump’s shaky mental state, or worse: unemployment claims are rising again. Federal aid for the businesses and individuals hardest hit by the crisis is about to run out. Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. are back above a thousand per day for the first time since early June. Cases are rising at an alarming rate across the South and West. States that have pushed and been pushed by Trump to reopen before the disease was under control are now being forced to close back up. There is inadequate testing, and unacceptable delays in processing the tests that do take place,” Glasser noted. “Trump has repeatedly been asked in recent days about a national testing plan, a national mask order, a national strategy to help schools serve students safely. He has rejected all of them.”

TRUMP: I asked the doctor, I said, 'is there some kind of cognitive test that I could take?' ... the last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question. You'll go 'person, woman, man, camera, TV.' So they say -- 'can you repeat that?' ... for me it was easy." Flushed face

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1286101530928611328

“Beyond these ever-harder-to-ignore questions about Trump’s basic fitness to handle the complexities of the Presidency, there is an entire public debate over his mental health. A preening narcissist in the best of times, Trump’s lifelong self-absorption, lack of empathy, chronic untruthfulness, and apparent inability to distinguish right from wrong have led hundreds of psychiatrists to break with their profession’s rule against diagnosis without examination and call Trump mentally ill,” Glasser explained.

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported Trump has been telling the story for some time, while changing the names of the objects in the test.

@katierogers: The president has been known to recite five words to aides in the West Wing or on Air Force One — he’d tweak the list to make it appropriate for the setting — while claiming that Biden could not do the same."

https://apnews.com/c8e5d800f5eb545c7aee8c5b597e6df4



Trump says 'you have to be very sharp' to be president — then forgets the name of the Space Force




Donald Trump discussed the importance of being smart while president during a Thursday evening interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

“You have to be very sharp. I’m dealing with the heads of these countries and everyone of them is a world-class chess player and if you’re not a 100% on your game, if you’re not 100% sharp plus, you got a problem,” Trump argued.

Trump: You have to be very sharp. I’m dealing with the heads of these countries and everyone of them is a world class chess player and if you’re not a 100% on your game, if you’re not 100% sharp plus, you got a problem.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1286478628629274624

Moments later, Trump forgot the name of the Space Force, the new branch of the armed services that he created with much fanfare.

The President, who boasted about his memory, forgets the name of the Space Force.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1286480501427941377



Trump is 'completely confused' about his cognitive test: medical expert   




Speaking on CNN this Thursday, a medical expert addressed President Trump’s recent rant on Fox News where he bragged about his performance on a cognitive test designed to detect early signs of dementia. NYU School of Medicine’s Dr. Art Kaplan said that the test Trump took was simply to diagnose whether or not he’s mildly cognitively impaired from a disease — not to determine his intelligence.

“He’s completely confused about the purpose and point of this particular quick examination,” he said. “My belief is he’s trying to establish himself as the stable genius that he wants us all to think that he is.”

Kaplan went on to say that Trump is using the test to defend against people who have concerns about his mental fitness for office.

[Ray Mitcham]

The five words he couldn't remember "I haven't got a clue."

[Colin Crow]

The five words he couldn't remember "I haven't got a clue."

He couldn’t remember the name of the memory test 

I know Biden was wrong when he claimed Trump was the first racist President. There have been others.

[Paul May]

FLASH

A.P. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Royell Storing, renowned provocateur, propagandist and “consultant” to the Donald Trump re-election effort was released by the campaign this morning. The demise of Mr. Storing came as no surprise to those within the campaign as Mr. Trumps sagging national polling numbers reflected poorly on Mr. Storing’s performance. An unnamed source was overheard saying “Royal tried and tried but ultimately his incoherency and babbling got in his way”. The source continued “Royal will be alright. There’s always barber college”.

[Ray Mitcham]

 

FLASH

A.P. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Royell Storing, renowned provocateur, propagandist and “consultant” to the Donald Trump re-election effort was released by the campaign this morning. The demise of Mr. Storing came as no surprise to those within the campaign as Mr. Trumps sagging national polling numbers reflected poorly on Mr. Storing’s performance. An unnamed source was overheard saying “Royal tried and tried but ultimately his incoherency and babbling got in his way”. The source continued “Royal will be alright. There’s always barber college”.

 

[Ray Mitcham]

Trump's cognitive test.

[Paul May]

Can you hear it? Listen more closely. That’s right. The final nails going into the Trump coffin!

The unemployment situation is really, really bad
Dion Rabouin

In the first week of July, nearly 1.5 million Americans were receiving unemployment benefits from the little-known Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Short-Term Compensation programs.

The state of play: For the week ending April 11, the first week for which data on the programs is available, PEUC and STC programs counted a little over 62,000 and 27,000 claimants each, respectively. That means both programs have seen approximately 15-fold increases in about three months' time.

Why it matters: As first-time claims for traditional unemployment benefits have held steady between 1 million and 1.5 million a week for 18 straight weeks, pandemic-specific unemployment insurance programs are spiking, showing greater job losses and weakness in the economy.

What it means: The PEUC program provides additional benefits for those affected by the pandemic who have exhausted traditional state unemployment benefits.

STC provides benefits to people who still have jobs but whose employers have reduced their hours significantly to avoid layoffs, providing a pro-rata share of weekly benefits based on the reduction in hours of work.
Between the lines: The continuous increase in PEUC claims likely means Americans are staying unemployed for longer and the consistent uptick in STC claims shows that even businesses that have not laid off employees yet have been cutting their hours and having the government pick up the slack.

The number of people receiving benefits under each newly created program is higher than the total number of people receiving unemployment benefits during any week in 2019.
The big picture: Such programs have helped uphold American consumers' spending, but have been quite costly — government spending in June totaled $1.1 trillion, according to CBO estimates — more than triple outlays in June 2019, or about a $763 billion increase.

What's next: The unemployment picture looks to be worsening right as the $600 in additional federal unemployment assistance expires.

According to the Census Bureau’s weekly Household Pulse Survey published Wednesday, the number of employed Americans declined by about 6.7 million from mid-June through mid-July, including a 4.1 million fall from the first to the second week of July.
Yelp reported that its tally of business closures that had been declining consistently since March has stalled out with temporary business closures now turning to permanent ones.

Yelp noted that permanent closures now account for 55% of all closed businesses since March 1, an increase of 14% from June.

[John Iacoletti]

And don't forget that history has a habit of repeating itself.

"User generated map".  LOL.