Gift Article: Has Anyone Noticed That Trump Is Really Old?

Finally, detecting a decline in Trump may be challenging because his language and reasoning skills started at such a low place.

Savage ... And well deserved

The last time this came up everyone agreed Trump is in fact a dummy, but still spent the whole thread fighting with each other over when exactly he became dumb.
I'm still in team always was dumb, BTW.
- Didn't his university professor say that trump was the stupidest student he'd ever taught.
- He was always a dumbass.
  Can we also agree he’s gotten dumber?

Y’all I can’t go through this anti Trump circlejerk anymore. It’s exhausting. Imprison him or something but god I don’t give a fuck about this shit anymore.

Unfortunately the pro Trump propaganda is strong. If the opposition isn't reminding people how horrible he is he'll get free advertising again and win.
If you don't want to see it either block all political communities or get off social media.
- Trump is old, but he appears energetic. He's boisterous and aggressive, both traits appeal to his base. They don't care if he gaffs or gets countries wrong.
  Edit: based on people's reactions, somehow you seem to think I'm endorsing him or like him. I do not.
  To be clear, I'm trying to honestly assess why he might have a chance at winning. Our republic is fucked if he wins.
- Trump and Biden are some of the most unpopular candidates ever to run for president but neither party seems able or willing to put someone more likeable up. Dems wholly rejected the candidate who had every chance of beating Trump in the general, in favor of the one more friendly to donor interests and had a pretty likely chance of losing. This is basically the death spiral of the system producing these results right now ad infinitum.
- For me taking Trump seriously and coverage like "let's talk about how old Trump is" are completely separate things.
I wish we could. God, I wish we could. The cult's too strong though, so everyone has to use the "premature baby gloves" when they're handling him.
It's giving me flashbacks to early 2016 when I first realized this ornery duffer could actually be elected president, right when major news outlets started to cover him as a frontrunner, every tweet was analyzed as breaking news for the morning segments, it was just the Trump show 24/7. Himbo news presenters looking vaguely shocked through the layers of makeup and botox, in effect just crafting the brand he needed.
I generally like the Atlantic too, but I find them and New Republic have been on the extra-Trump editorializing lately. IE taking things known about Trump and re-emphasizing them with "it's official now," as if it wasn't before, or as if something significant has developed. Jacobin has been really good at steering clear of this sort of pedestrian approach and it's been nice to have them around the last few years.
Are you seriously making an argument for complacence?
- Is it complacency or just raw genitals? There isn't any debate to be had here. At this point nobody is going to read this thread and go, "oh, yeah, these are some good points. I guess Trump really isn't someone I should be supporting."
  It's just a bunch of people standing in a circle jerking it and that can be fun... for awhile, but eventually you just need a break.
Especially articles like this. Like yes, he's old. Congrats. He's been old for at least a decade. Do we... do we need this article?
- I think this article was written because republicans always say Biden is too old. He is, but so is Trump
- Headlines with layers of qualifiers to say the same thing with more emphasis, seems like a lot of Trump articles do this now.
  It's Definitely Really Official Now, Trump is Actually Officially Old
I'll never understand "circlejerk" being an accepted term for what it supposedly means
- A bunch of people metaphorically standing around masturbating each other to a particular topic doesn't seem a relevant allegory to you? It's a bit overused, but I think it gets the point across very clearly.

"Don't you think he looks tired?"

If only that worked in the U.S. Mitch McConnell would be gone.

I will celebrate the day he dies in prison
His lies killed my grandfather, his hands are dripping with blood
- You're one of something like twenty million Americans whose family members died of preventable complications from COVID.

Has Anyone Noticed That Trump Is A Big Fat Doodie Head?

If Trump is elected in 2024 he'll be the oldest president ever (at the end of his term)

Donald Trump is so stupid. He can’t make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because he lost the recipe.

Will they let him use his orange foundation in prison?

No, he'll have to get a full body orange tattoo before he goes in.
- Or after.

I'm genuinely curious what will happen to the GQP when trump dies, no matter what the reason is.

There's lots of talk about how someone worse would step in and take his place, but I can't help but notice that every "replacement" that has been put forward (like Desantis) is made fun of and rejected by the rightoids.

There are people now who have made "trump supporter" their personality. Those are the people who still vote for him, those are the people all the other conservative weirdos are trying to court for votes. So what happens when he dies?

I don't know, but I guarantee you that the QAnon die hards will refuse to ever believe he's dead. Even if they're still around 50 years from now.
- I think they'll believe it, but I think you'll have to work really hard to convince them it was natural causes.
- I wonder if they will throw him in a wheelbarrow and cart him into the Rotunda to lie in a state like the fat orange fucking carrot log that he is.
Maybe one of his sons would take over? It's hard to imagine the MAGA crew moving on. Even people Trump explicitly endorses don't always seem to get their full support...
Eh, they'll probably just call the obituary 'fake news' and try to elect his corpse into office.
- Eh, they'll probably just call the obituary 'fake news' and try to elect his corpse into office.
  Isn't that what the Reagan years were all about? Weekend at Ronnie's.
- Even people Trump explicitly endorses don't always seem to get their full support...
  That right there is the issue. There are of course two ways that the former president could leave this world - suddenly, or over a period of time. Does he spend two weeks slowly getting worse, giving The Apparatus time to make plans, or does he fall over dead one night facedown in his chicky nuggies?
  Either way the "supporters" will get mad and loud and threaten violence but... I'm not as worried about that as I used to be. I live in a deep red state that went 85%-90% to trump in 2020. I know many of the people who support him. Remember that middle-aged couple in 2020 that were waving guns around in front of their mcmansion to protect themselves from "protesters" that were nowhere near them? That's a pretty typical template. If there were actual people in the area doing actual harm they would be hiding inside behind locked doors.
  Nobody is going to rise up when he dies. They'll scream and cry and blame gay people, and they will continue to do so until the Next Thing distracts them.