1 - I should have been a friend

2- We haven't hung out in a minute

3 - I do what is best for you

4 - Can I Come Over?

5 - Please fix my heart

6 - Thorns

7 - Where would this bouquet look good?

The President of the United States is demented—morally and clinically. FDR was in a wheelchair from polio. See if you can figure out what the fuck he’s talking about. “And my wife, by the way, my wife hates when I do this. She said, you know, she's a very classy person. Right. She said, it's so unpresidential. He said, but I did become president.

She, somebody, she hates what I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance. Darling, it's not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me. And I said, there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know because he wasn't elegant fellow, even as a Democrat, right? He was the attack by Japan. You know, he was quite elegant. But he wouldn't be doing this. But, but nor would too many others, but she says, darling, please, the weightlifting is terrible. And I have to say this, the dancing they really like. She said, they don't like it. They're just being nice to you. I said, that's not right.

The place goes crazy. They're screaming, dance. Please, but the weightlifting, but no, they go, get your help. And you see, I want to be more, but I have somebody watching. I want to be more effusive. I want to really, yeah. But she gets it. I dropped the thing, walks off the stage crying, her mother's crying, her father's going, "God gets up." He said, "Have you lifted before a little bit?" And he walks up, being, he could have gone, ding, ding, ding. I think it was 112 pounds, right? It's crazy.

For the beautiful boxer, they have boxing now, and they have a young gentleman who transitioned. It was a very good boxer, but he wanted to be a woman, which is, you know, to each his own. Because they want to be very liberal when it comes to these subjects. I'm trying to get that road. It's not an easy vote to get. It's very tough for me to get it. But he transitioned, and he transitioned. And the girl was a champion boxer, from Italy, remember? She got up first round. He had a pum with a left, a left for those, everybody had his butt, but a left, least enough better than anybody.

I'm being completely honest here: stranger things is probably one of the only things stopping me from being in a constant state of psychosis. And everyone's being all sad about it. The only thing that makes me happy right now is this show, social interaction, and the hope that the people around me actually love me, and I'm losing all three of them.

The clearest symptom yet of Trump’s mental decline. His brain is turning into sh*t.

Robert Reich. : Dec 04, 2025.

Friends,

After criticizing media coverage about him aging in office, Trump appeared to be falling asleep during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

But that’s hardly the most troubling aspect of his aging.

In the last few weeks, Trump’s insults, tantrums, and threats have exploded.

To Nancy Cordes, CBS’s White House correspondent, he said: “Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.”

About New York Times correspondent Katie Rogers: “third rate … ugly, both inside and out.”

To Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey: “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.”

About Democratic lawmakers who told military members to defy illegal orders: guilty of “sedition … punishable by DEATH.”

About Somali immigrants to the United States: “Garbage” whom “we don’t want in our country.”

What to make of all this?

Trump’s press hack Karoline Leavitt tells reporters to “appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near-daily basis.”

Sorry, Ms. Leavitt. This goes way beyond frankness and openness. Trump is now saying things nobody in their right mind would say, let alone the president of the United States.

He’s losing control over what he says, descending into angry, venomous, often dangerous territory. Note how close his language is coming to violence — when he speaks of acts being punishable by death, or human beings as garbage, or someone being ugly inside and out.

The deterioration isn’t due to age alone.

I have some standing to talk about this frankly. I was born 10 days after Trump. My gray matter isn’t what it used to be, either, but I don’t say whatever comes into my head.

It’s true that when you’re pushing 80, brain inhibitors start shutting down. You begin to let go. Even in my daily Substack letter to you, I’ve found myself using language that I’d never use when I was younger, like the word “sh*t” in this subtitle.

When my father got into his 90s, he told his friends at their weekly restaurant lunch that it was about time they paid their fair shares of the bill. He told his pharmacist that he was dangerously incompetent and should be fired. He told me I needed to dress better and get a haircut.

He lost some of his inhibitions, but at least his observations were accurate.

I think older people lose certain inhibitions because they don’t care as much about their reputations as do younger people. In a way, that’s rational. Older people no longer depend on their reputations for the next job or next date or new friend. If a young person says whatever comes into their heads, they have much more to lose, reputation-wise.

But Trump’s outbursts signal something more than the normal declining inhibitions that come with older age. Trump no longer has any filters. He’s becoming impetuous.

This would be worrying about anyone who’s aging. But a filterless president of the United States who says anything that comes into his head poses a unique danger. What if he gets angry at China, calls up Xi, tells him he’s an asshole, and then orders up a nuclear bomb?

It’s time the media reported on this. It’s time America faced reality. It’s time we demanded that our representatives in Congress take action, before it’s too late.

Dan Rather at Steady:

We need to have a serious conversation about Donald Trump’s health — what we know, and, more importantly, what we don’t know, which is a lot. Just how bad or good is it? We’ve tallied many indications of flagging vitality, just in his second term alone, and by any reasonable analysis he is not a picture of good health, to say the least. Ronald Reagan was 69 when he took office. In his second term, Trump was almost ten years older than Reagan. Now, for a normal 79½-year-old, he is doing just fine. He holds down a full-time job. Much of his life is lived in front of cameras. He manages to get up and down the long flight of stairs to Air Force One without help.

But he is the President of the United States, arguably the most powerful and pressurized position in the world. A President of the United States has to be better than just fine. Trump’s multiple instances of physical and mental decline over the past 11 months should be raising serious questions. We simply don’t know what is actually going on. The lack of information and transparency is indefensible. Even any small dribble of information about his health quickly gets back-burnered by his latest outrageous behavior. Historically, Trump has been minimally forthcoming about his health, though he claims otherwise. There are no rules about what he does and does not have to reveal. His doctors have repeatedly refused to take questions, even when he was severely ill from COVID in 2020. They have released summaries of his various exams that contain little to no detail.

The only things they do dole out are platitudes. “President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the commander in chief and head of state,” his physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, wrote in April after his first annual physical. He also mentioned Trump’s frequent golf wins.

Oftentimes, he does not look like a well man. Trump claims to be 224 pounds, suspiciously just under what is considered obese for someone 6 feet 3 inches tall — especially since he rejects physical exercise as a concept and happily eats Big Macs, plural, in one sitting. Reportedly, his go-to McDonald’s order contains more than 2,400 calories. He is said to down a dozen Diet Cokes a day.

The first signs of physical decline during his second term came in February when significant bruising could be seen on the back of Trump’s hand. He has since tried to hide the consistent bruise marks with makeup and Band-Aids. The White House said the bruising was from taking aspirin and shaking so many hands. A more likely possibility is that he is getting some kind of intravenous infusion. For what, we have no idea. Doctors have speculated he might be getting blood thinners, medications for kidney disease, or ones that slow the effects of dementia. Without facts it’s impossible to determine the extent of any health issue he might have, and easy for speculation to run wild.

In July, photos revealed that Trump had visibly swollen ankles. In a rare moment of transparency, the White House revealed that the president had chronic venous insufficiency, a blood vessel disease that affects circulation.

At the end of August, Trump, who has never met a camera he doesn’t like, was not seen in person for six days, his longest absence from public view in more than ten years. Online theorizing that he was sick or dead was rampant. JD Vance’s August 27 assertion that he had “gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the last 200 days,” to USA Today helped fan those flames.

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Trump has certainly “aced” the test of signs of cognitive decline:

Inability to remember words and names — Trump mistakenly called his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, “Cristie Kerr,” who is a professional golfer.

Getting lost in familiar places — He recently had a sign put up in the outside area near the Oval Office that read “The Oval Office.”

Memory loss — During a September press conference, he said his first term “started around 2015,” then corrected himself to 2016. It began in January 2017.

Confabulation — He claims his uncle, a professor at MIT, taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. His uncle died 11 years before Kaczynski was identified as the Unabomber, and he did not attend MIT.

Increased aggression — He has posted thousands of all-caps social media rants aimed at everyone from California Governor Gavin Newsom to The New York Times.

Confusion — He believes giant, energy-producing windmills “are killing us.”

Verbal incoherence — The White House has removed from its website some of Trump’s official remarks that are particularly inscrutable. This is just part of one speech that has been scrubbed: “I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet.”

Trump’s temper has flared at any mention of his age or physical and mental decline in the media. Arguably, there has not been enough reporting on this topic. A recent Times piece, tamely titled, “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office,” sent the president into a tailspin, shooting off angry social media posts in response, and calling the female reporter who wrote the piece “ugly, both inside and out.” What are your medical issues, Mr. President? The American people deserve to know. Since so little has been revealed about the president’s health, all citizens can do is to consider the evidence, then wait and wonder. The question as to whether Trump is still fit to hold office has become front and center.