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    The evening began to take a different trajectory when a man appeared to faint in the crowd. Trump paused his remarks. Attendees fanned the man and began to sing “God Bless America.” As the man waited for medical help, Trump mused: “While we’re waiting. So we had a beautiful evening. And I don’t know if they could get this song up quickly, but if they could work really quickly backstage while we’re waiting. ‘Ave Maria.’” The song began to play.

    Brother what in the fuck is going on anymore.

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      That’s honestly tame compared to the rest of the town hall

      At the end, he made it sound like he was done and going to wrap up, said thank you and then he… just stood there for 39 minutes noding to music

      Oh also he said “does anyone else want to faint too” after someone fainted

      He also told people to vote on January 5th instead of election day (Nov 5th)

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        That honestly sounds like he cant recenter himself, which if true means he may not be alive much longer. My great great aunt wasnt able to recenter herself and died within a couple days from that point. Mind you he could stay in a coupletely alucid state for who knows how long, it is kinda random.

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          It could be that he’s tired, old, and really fucking lazy. He wants to be in front of his crowd as it indulges his pathetic need for attention but he just can’t be bothered to meet them halfway by trotting out the same old lies so he just stands there, shuffling a little to some music while they bask in his magnificence.

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            Honestly Trump is such a weird bastard that its pretty much impossible to tell, could be either or really. But theres just this gut feeling I have that Trump is breaking down and is fast approaching the Reaper. Especially given that his actions are getting more random, there was a pattern in it before even if it was comparable to my sleeping habits, but now it just seems scattered like the pattern is still there but its drifting and becoming disconnected.

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              I’m not going to argue that he’s in decline but I’d argue that trying to remotely diagnose him isn’t helpful.

              He ran for President, he won - Trump happy.

              He ran again and lost - Trump not happy but rigged election!

              Now he’s running yet again and it’s close but he’s losing, crowd sizes are smaller, he’s old and tired, legal issues are piling up, and so on - Trump starting to lose his shit.

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                  I think the issue is, we all want you to be right. But we’ve been let down by situations like this before. So none of us want to get our hopes up again.

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        Don’t forget a second person fainted as well.

        Folks fanning themselves while he dances and leans while music plays because he didn’t pay for Air conditioning

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      Think his team is more so afraid of making his mental decline even more obvious after his town hall yesterday. He cut if off early, said “who wants to listen to questions” and “let’s listen to music” followed by an early wrapping up. Sounded like he was going to leave, but he just didn’t. He stood on stage for 39 minutes of him nodding on stage to music

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/

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        39 minutes…that’s really troubling. It’s not like 1 song or 2 short songs, to take a few impromptu questions as people filled out. That’s almost an hour of some sort of severe breakdown.

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          His team was telling him to take more questions on the teleprompter and he still just stood there

          (Photo from the Washington Post article)

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            I always knew his teleprompter wasn’t just lines to a prewritten speech.

            They literally have people that type messages to him in real time, but they can’t put a lot up there so he just gets vague topics and rambles about it, then when a new message pops up he changes immediately to that.

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    Dementia is kinda like that. Its there and causes problems that can be masked til one day the problems are not something that can be kept hidden.

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    Somebody should tell him the last debate aired with “new smell-o-vision technology” and see if it’s possible for his face to lose any more color.

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    Leave the poor guy alone! He probably just wants to spend some time by himself swaying creepily to his favorite music.