THIS is what the world is reading. Time Magazine interview. He is barking mad.

[nolabear]

http://time.com/4710456/donald-trump-time-interview-truth-falsehood/?xid=homepage

He is not living in any reality but his own. He can retain little bits of shallow information and spout things over and over and over but this thing is essentially substance free. He runs down every thought that flits across his mind, and what's on his mind is that he won, and things are happening and he hears things and he won. Oh yeah, and he won.

[Lucinda]

1. KNR

[SharonAnn]

2. Alzheimer's symptoms.

[nolabear]

4. I don't know. I don't know what it is but it's not what I want in a president.

Understatement of the century, eh?

[JHB]

15. For fifty years?

[Charles Bukowski]

27. He was never this bad.

Listen to his Howard Stern interviews. He was hardly an intellectual, but even in the late 2000s he could at least form coherent sentences m

[Orsino]

100. He never had a job before.

Now he has to talk about things that he's not interested in, yet he still runs back to the self-aggrandizement, vugarity and blame-casting.

He's not senile; he's just still juvenile.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

49. He was very coherent in an interview with Oprah years ago

So, I think this is some kind of degenerative illness. Or drug use, but I'm betting on a degenerative illness like alzheimers.

I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on tv.

[tblue37]

50. I have been saying Alzheimer's all along. His father had it. nt

[Madam Mossfern]

75. Alzheimer's

is not genetically linked.

[Akamai]

81. Where did you get that from? that it is not genetically related?

e.g., see: http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/guide/alzheimers-genetic#1

[MarvinGardens]

93. ApoE4 gene confers 10x increased risk.

In the link, scroll down to "clinical significance".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. Has a rep. of no drugs, alcohol, cigs, etc.

But also lives almost entirely on a diet of fast food, and steak dinners.
Stress makes him binge on sugar/fat foods, and talk has been of his night time eating in the WH.

Might could account for sluggish brain.

[Ilsa]

58. If he's sleeping only 3 hours a night, you can bet he's snacking at night,

and night snacking can really bring on weight gain. The only exception would be if he's snorting coke, I guess.

[Merlot]

73. He has a reputation for liking uppers

He says he doesn't drink or smoke, but leaves out drugs. He behaves like someone who does coke...paranoia, up all night, sniffles. I don't know much about pharma drugs but probably he's got legal prescriptions.

Carrie Fisher made note of his sniffles after the debate, and if anyone would know, it would have been her. She'd seen it all.

[MFM008]

78. When your arteries get clogged

It prevents proper bloodflow getting to brain.
My dad's personality changed in his last year.
Then he passed suddenly.

Maggot takes a cholesterol busting drug. That means his cholesterol is a certain level. A not good level because they test it for 3 to 6 months a couple times first.
Arteries straining ..........

[ashling]

86. Bragged about how his sleeping was as dangerous as combat

TRUMP’S ‘UNHINGED’ BEHAVIOR COULD BE DUE TO ‘UNTREATED SYPHILIS,’ EXPERT CLAIMS
http://www.inquisitr.com/3991991/trumps-unhinged-behavior-could-be-due-to-untreated-syphilis-expert-claims/

A Medical Theory for Donald Trump’s Bizarre Behavior
https://newrepublic.com/article/140702/medical-theory-donald-trumps-bizarre-behavior

Trump’s ‘bizarre, volatile behavior’ could be from untreated syphilis: infectious disease doctor
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trumps-bizarre-volatile-behavior-could-be-from-untreated-syphilis-infectious-disease-doctor/

http://www.stdregistry.com/donald-trump.html


Just a theory:
I don't know if Trumpty Dumpty has sued any of these people for these stories. He is so sue crazy, that the only reason for not suing would be because it would bring the truth out in the open.

[azureblue]

94. but he abuses

prescription uppers. He's long been known to abuse prescription stimulants. Note how he talks - it's the ramblings of a meth head.....

[PatrickforO]

61. Oh...well...I WANT to play a Doctor on TV, and I say it's definitely some form of dementia!

Seriously, though, I'd laugh if I weren't crying so hard...



I'm lighting candles for us tonight.

[GoCubsGo]

32. Nope.

Untreated syphilis. And/or brain damage from all the coke he was snorting when he was clubbing with Roy Cohen back in the '70s and '80s. (Roy Cohen was Joe McCarthy's lawyer, BTW.)

[truebluegreen]

45. Fwiw. "Roy Cohn"

[Ilsa]

59. Tertiary syphyllis just might explain it! Thanks. NT

[AwakeAtLast]

43. Add in rampant Narcissism

You have quite the combination there.

[truebluegreen]

47. That's what I think--

along with his lifelong narcissism.

Reminds me of my dad in the early stages: disjointed chain of consciousness in conversation, exaggerated existing personality traits, paranoia, no filters, etc. Dad wasn't a malevolent asshole but it was rough sledding nonetheless.

[Hekate]

57. Good observation, especially "exaggerated existing personality traits," which is what I've seen ....

...in friends/relatives in decline over the years.

So many have tried to boil down DTs mental issues to one thing, but it is certainly possible to be a malignant narcissisist who also has dementia who also has ADD. Reading about his very early life and cruel behavior even in primary school, I got the feeling that something in this man's brain has been "broken" since a very early age.

He is now an old man who needs others looking out for his welfare. I'd have a lot more compassion if those "others" had not gone along with his mad idea of running for potus, and had those others not had the delusion they could control him once he got there.

We have a potus who is, colloquially speaking, batshit crazy. This is not just a family matter any more. They all have to go, and many of them need to go to prison.

[PatrickforO]

66. Best post on this thread.

I'm in complete agreement. Our president, the most powerful man in the world, is batshit crazy.

[truebluegreen]

68. I agree completely.

I also think that the installation of Complicit Ivanka in the West Wing is just another attempt to plug up the hole in the dam...people know what's going on, but on various levels (political, financial) they only care about profiting from the situation.

The good news is, I don't think it will work. F*ck them all.

[Lithos]

79. Heart failure

Such as low ejection fraction... causes a form of dementia. Sleep problems because he has sleep apnea... sleep apnea leads to the heart issue.

[smirkymonkey]

3. I can't even.

I mean what the holy fuck was that?!

[nolabear]

6. I'm glad it was written exactly as said. We need to keep his mind's workings before us.

Hell, I just heard him read a relatively eloquent statement to the trucking industry people he met with, and sit back after one paragraph and say something like "Did I write that? That's really good." Of course you didn't write that, and the fact that you make a comment like that is just beyond bizarre.

[mopinko]

5. i could only make it halfway through. ugh.

hhooooowwwwlllliiiinnnnngggg at the moon.

[dixiegrrrrl]

55. You may have missed the best part, which has been the talk of interwebs...

I posted it, here is the cut and paste

Trump:
"And then TIME magazine, which treats me horribly, but obviously I sell, I assume this is going to be a cover too, have I set the record? I guess, right? Covers, nobody’s had more covers."

TIME:
"I think Richard Nixon still has you beat. But he was in office for longer, so give yourself time."

Trump:
" Ok good. I’m sure I’ll win."

Said with a perfectly serious face, total lack of irony.

[mopinko]

70. we must demand that his brain be left to science.

we deserve to know.

[dixiegrrrrl]

97. "AB Normal"

[mopinko]

98. abby? is that you abby?

what a strange name, abby normal.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Kick for later

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. tRump's only concerns: Ratings and Bucks stopping in his pocket. . . . nt

[mcar]

9. Barking mad says it

That was one of the most surreal things I've ever read.

[rufus dog]

10. HOLY SHIT!

That was painful

[Marthe48]

11. Who let him out of his strait-jacket?

My cat offers better logic.

[malaise]

12. Sorry

That's way past barking mad- he's howling mad

[SunSeeker]

13. It reads like an SNL script. nt

[bora13]

14. you know

he and bannon (via twitter and alt-right) (spicey is the DH against the real press) are just playing games with the press in order to try and set them up - catch them in
one of his lies if you will. It seems to me that his primary goal is to take down all four pillars of govt (including the press). And the press seems to be his first swing. The ACA bill is just the first deflection.

Hopefully he takes himself out first and then maybe those of us left can manage to wrestle back what's left.

[GetRidOfThem]

16. I started reading this earlier today, could not make it through the interview

His rambling style was just too tiresome. Incomplete sentences, his whole speaking style was just too much for me.

And I thought W was bad at the time (and he was, too, but not on the scale of THIS!...)

[lark]

21. He's set a new std. for awful, terrible, pretend president.

I couldn't read it either, just got too mad, couldn't take the inability to speak a complete sentence with a speck of intelligence or even thought. He just spews and spews. He never has had to work a day in his life, probably had people to take the tests while he was in college, because he certainly learned nothing. Had a racist, neo-Nazi crook for a dad and continued with his dad's crooked racist ways. Dad, however, was a ton smarter than his dumb son, he never had to file BK while orange assface has filed 7 times.

Totally crazy and unrelentingly stupid.

[notdarkyet]

80. I had someone like him, rich, spoiled, ask me to take tests for him in college. Hell no.

[Amaryllis]

17. Unfortunatley he is pulling others into his reality. Sounds like Nunes is one.

[Fast Walker 52]

18. but I wish Scherer had tried to confront him more directly on obvious lies

seemed like Trump got away with his BS AGAIN!!!

[Moostache]

46. I want someone, anyone in the press to follow up on his Obama birtherism shit...

TODAY SHOW - April 2011:

“I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding,” Trump told host Meredith Vieira.

“You have people now down there searching, I mean in Hawaii?” she asked.

“Absolutely,” he replied. “And they cannot believe what they’re finding.”

Doesn't that strike everyone reading the Time interview with massive deja vu?????
ITS THE SAME BULLSHIT, DIFFERENT TOPIC, DIFFERENT YEAR....SAME ASSHOLE, SAME LIES!!!

Quit treating this guy with ANY decorum. Stop addressing him as "Mr. President" and start calling him "Fake President" or just "Trump" without any honorific. Make him explain just exactly "what they found"?....exactly like this voter fraud lie....or the lie about the wire tapping....or the lie about....

[Heartstrings]

54. Exactly...

Just who are these "people" he so often refers to? He knows them, they're good/great, they tell him things, they tell other people things about other people....geesh!

[maxsolomon]

63. He said during the campaign when it became an issue for him:

"I don't talk about that any more".

That was it. The End. Nothing further to say. No apology, because why would he? There are zero consequences for lying. The media dropped it.

[nolabear]

67. I can't bring myself to even say his name. I just can't.

[Fast Walker 52]

89. yes... we can't normalize how fake and awful and creepy this guy is from top to bottom

[Different Drummer]

19. Alzheimer's on steroids. Worse than anything that ever came out of Reagan's mouth. n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. No. He does not have Alzheimer's. If he did, he'd have a diminished responsibility

for what he says, but he knows exactly what he's saying. He simply doesn't give a flying fuck for what's quaintly called "truth" or "facts".

I really wish people would stop ascribing any sort of dementia to him, because as I've already said, it would absolve him of responsibility.

[nolabear]

26. I don't think it's dementia either. I should go look at earlier footage of him speaking.

If it exists. There was no reason for anyone to take him seriously earlier.

[mopinko]

99. at this point i would settle for

an article 25. would prefer it, in fact. i would love for him to go down in history as a brain damaged puppet in the mold of st ronnie.
i think it may be an even bigger issue for the american people to understand how a president becomes a puppet and/or how a puppet becomes president.

he isnt the first rethuglican idiot puppet, and if we dont blow this whole thing wide open, he will not be the last.

as long as the puppet masters are hanged, and cheeto goes down in history as a brain damaged fool, i am a happy camper.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. The interviewer did nothing but concede to Drumpf's continual bullshit claims

over and over and over. And then when going back to try to get him to correct a few of the lies, the result was the same bullshit response again, after which we are treated to the usual M$M response (Chris Hayes-style) via the defacto "okay", subject dropped, move on, lies left to stand.

The whole thing continues to normalize the freak by even begging him to concede that his behavior is not normal, acceptable, or presidential by any previous precedent, with the result being the usual arrogant dismissal of the interviewer in return.

Boo hiss.

[SchrodingersCatbox]

23. Beyond barking mad

Shithouse rats look at this and realize it's a whole new degree of crazy

[VOX]

24. He needs heavy-duty psychiatric care.

His mind is going. All impulse, no filter, just a bunch of scrambled noise with an obsessive component. Who even says something like, "a lot of information may be learned over the next coming period of time"?

[nolabear]

29. It's certainly a very odd style to get away with. I'm surprised no one has asked him about it.

The whole country still seems to be in shock. Not that anyone actually has any access to him; this is the first time an actual interview has been granted, isn't it?

I'd love for someone to say "Frankly, your train of thought is very hard to follow. Why do you wander around like that?"

[Jonny Appleseed]

40. He's on fox like every week

[nolabear]

53. I thought about that as I was writing the post but on paper it's more impressive.

I'll cop to not watching Fox so if it's more erudite tell me. And there is a difference between how things sound and how the same thing looks. This, I think, goes way beyond that.

[dixiegrrrrl]

65. And he would say...

" My train of thought is perfect! I have the best train of thought of anybody.!
NO-body has better thinks than I do. !!
Obama never thought as good as I think, believe me"

when bragging on himself, he has 100% good words.

[dalton99a]

91. His voters have the same attention span as him

[Mc Mike]

87. Poor guy really is suffering, mentally.

But it's nothing that 18 rounds of ECT and 3 icepick lobotomies can't fix for him.

[Initech]

25. Worst president ever!!

[mercuryblues]

28. Holy shit

that hurt my brain.

[JohnnyLib2]

30. The truck picture today is a good portrayal. Maybe he WAS barking madly.

[nolabear]

31. They're talking about it on MTP Daily right now.

It seems so hard for them to move out of their customary way of doing things and expecting others to stay within those parameters too, so they can't say "He's not making sense. He just repeats the same thing over and over, independent of facts and reality."

It'll be interesting to see the reviews as the day goes on.

[MrScorpio]

33. He's insane.

FDT.

[Blue_Tires]

42. Which makes me ask again what was his appeal to voters

Because this is the same Trump from the campaign when he wasn't saying "Lock her Up/Make America Great Again/Drain The Swamp"...

[mopinko]

101. the lizard brain dies last. that is his appeal. one lizard brain to another.

explains all the stupid and addled supporters.
pure id. pure, unabashed, unadulterated, unsuppressed squalling ME ME ME ME ME ME ME.
cuz what mental 5 year old doesnt want that?

[Squinch]

34. "I was just quiting something I read." Someone should respond to that by saying, then

according to that logic, there is no reason why we should not all spread the news that he raped his first wife because that was written and published somewhere.

[Solly Mack]

35. I mean. You know. I'm just telling cause, you know. I won, so, you know, the thing

the thing, brexit, the thing is, see ...you see what I'm saying. I'm right. You know. Look. Great stuff, that's all it is. Great stuff...me..president. Bad people, leaks, they leak, they are leakers. You see? I'm saying it, no, I'm quoting it, respected people. News, respected news, not false, you talk bad about me.


If you haven't read the interview. The above encapsulates.

[nolabear]

36. ...

[Solly Mack]

37. Palin is a far superior speaker than Trump.

And that's a sad thing to type or say out loud.

[Alice11111]

82. She could be, like at the McCain Repub Conv, but incoherent

Raging has been her style, or delivery, for more than a year now. That's why they took her off the camp. She wasn't making sense (to the degree that she ever did...sense to her followers) and she's not so old either.
Her brain seems to be shot too. Must be very taxing to keep up with all of those lies, in addition to being a public figure.

That's part of the problem with DT, he rarely had to answer to anyone. Just bark orders. Now, he has to try to deal in facts, AND remember all of his lies. Too much!!

[Solly Mack]

84. That could be it for the both. Having to keep up with all the lies

has fried their brain. Sad.

[Jonny Appleseed]

38. Jesus

Brussels, I said, Brussels is not Brussels.

[barbtries]

39. i can't listen to him

and as it turns out i can't read his quotes either. yes. barking mad.

the reporter seemed to be kissing his ass though, am i wrong?

[Jonny Appleseed]

41. He threw shade with that Nixon comment

[barbtries]

44. i did read trump's response to that

it was, okay, i'm sure i'll win.




usually people as sick as the president are not paraded in front of the entire world and made president of a country as large as this one. what will it take to make this stop.

[mountain grammy]

48. It's like listening to my brother in law or nephews

or pretty much most people who voted for trump.. one of their own who's rich.

[Alice11111]

83. Yes. I feel like I've been abducted by aliens w bizarre values.

I can't believe that they say the things they do, much less believe them. I have a few in my family too, fortunately in another state. God, they are such self righteous, money grubbing, Neon Christians.

My dentist, a very bright Chinese American, was "trumping" away the other day. I said, turn on some jazz. You don't get to do this when your hands are in my mouth, and I can't tell you how wrong you are. He said, he would take his hands out and give me a chance to talk. Finally, he put on the jazz.

[tclambert]

51. And he kept mentioning Brexit for no apparent reason.

Nobody asked about Brexit, but he said Brexit 11 times, claiming he predicted it, though everyone laughed at him. I can't find evidence of him saying, "Brexit will happen." I found where he said it could happen, and that he thought it would be a good thing because, you know, immigrants.

And apparently, the New York Times had the word "wiretap" in a headline once, therefore everything Donald said about wiretapping was right.

And when he claimed something "happened last night in Sweden" (referring to Friday, Feb. 17th) he was actually predicting something would happen two days later (Monday, Feb. 20th). Therefore, he was right about Sweden.

By the way, Brexit.

[nolabear]

62. Exactly. Non sequiturs and bizarre quasi-claims. "I'm not saying I'm psychic but..."

[rhiannon55]

95. He thinks he can predict events

because he's so "special", he has that ability. My daughter is mentally ill and she thinks the same thing. That's why he keeps bringing up Brexit and Sweden. He wants us to understand that he has the power to predict events before they happen. This magical thinking is another indication of mental illness.

[muriel_volestrangler]

56. Caine Mutiny. Captain Queeg. Strawberries. Ball Bearings. (nt)

[dixiegrrrrl]

69. A reference he would not get cause he has no culture background.

Can you imagine?
No books
no plays read..
no history, no art.
no pets
maybe he can name a couple of movies, but music???
No friends, just people he "knows" and then "doesn't know, never heard of them" like with Stone, who he knew for over 30 years.

yet, can't stand to be alone. Without the external approval of others, he simply does not exist..he is a shell.

[PatrickforO]

60. Well...he must be doing OK because he's president and we're not.

OMG.

This guy can't even speak in full sentences. He's appalling.

[nolabear]

64. The reporter's coming up on Tweety in a bit. This should be interesting.

[zentrum]

71. Scay--ree!! nt

[loyalsister]

72. "He is not living in any reality but his own."

Neither is a country where stage managed entertainment is accepted as "reality." He and his elections are products of a culture in which Jerry Springer, FOX, Rush Limbaugh, and an entertainment medium intent on humiliating people is so popular that cable news adopted the conflict driven model. "Let's bring some people on teevee and watch them fight." Why wouldn't a culture that accepts that kind of news and entertainment not elect someone who is spiteful and obsessed with insulting people?
He won as if people just elected their favorite football team or political party. Same difference in the minds of many. The US is just filled with fools who lack self awareness. 45 is a product and a representative of that.

[lambchopp59]

74. Trump campaign event attendees, largely

Were not realistically evaluating a leader of the free world. I don't believe 10 percent of them attending ever heard how utterly rambling their hero was beyond sound bytes that echoed the more protracted proposals they'd already heard on Faux Noise. I honestly believe the majority of them were just so pumped full of adrenaline, shouting, flag waving, echoing any criticism of Hillary, shouting, texting the kids to be home or else, albeit so caught up in "the man" who would finally salvage this country from the scourge of Obama. It was sheer adolescent level hero worship so enthralled that no critical attention was paid to the entire lack of content. "Shutdown of Muslims...." the crowd goes wild. "Hillary should be prosecuted..." the crowd goes wild. "Send that protester to the hospital"... the crowd goes wild. "Drain the swamp..." the crowd going wild ignoring the notion that Trump's entire statements made no coherent or complete idea.
He's already lost thousands of them who really thought he'd imprison Hillary. More and more are catching on that their anti-Obama hero wears no clothes, and more will do so in coming years, if he lasts that long.
Trump has already done irreparable damage unless the entire gang of corrupt cronies he's placed are removed. The absolute peril he has placed our country into is nerve racking. He's played right into ISIS's hands. He's taken all the recovery of the U.S. respect worldwide regained under President Obama from the inept bumblings of GWB and thrown us all down the rabbit hole.
Hannity must be taking entire bottles of aspirin trying to defend his clown. I don't believe that within two years there will be one single sane person that can support this administration, only those just as batshit loco as the Frumper himself or worse. By then many of them will be incapable of voting due to advanced dementia.
I'll be around to vote in 2018 if we don't all get blown to smithereens before then. But I cannot see trickle down economics on steroids doing anything but place us into worse shape than the great depression by 2020. I'm studying my Portuguese as quickly as this 58 year old brain can absorb it. Even the unemployment numbers in Brazil may look like an opportune haven compared to what 4 years of this is poised to do to the U.S. My home is on the market. I'm selling out, I'm done. I won't stay for another bout of sleeping in my car at the hot springs wondering if I can scrape enough change to afford a pack of Top Ramen again cooked in a tent. Fuck that. It's happened every time these trickle-down bastards take over.
And half these flag waving fools are down there at shanty town with me wondering what went wrong every time.

[mnhtnbb]

88. I envy your ability to get out.

I told my husband last spring that if Trump were to win, he'd better expect to be on a plane with me to look at moving to Kauai. I figured out
in the middle of the ocean in a diverse, blue state, would be about all we could handle at our ages (I'm now 66 and my husband is 74) to get out
of the way of the gun nuts, bigots, and just plain old a$$hole Republicans.

I had the trip all planned for the first week in December and couldn't do it. I know my husband won't move, He just won't. So not only
am I fearing another round of horrible recession/economic depression, but I feel trapped, too.

Good luck with your plans.

[dalton99a]

76. And this is who the GOP chose to nominate as president of the United States

[ResistStupid]

77. This is an immediate MUST READ!

Seth Abramson just finished updating this.

This is as comprehensive a breakdown of what Trump was doing behind closed doors as I have seen.

PLEASE READ AND SHARE!

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Link to tweet

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[pat_k]

102. Thanks. And Welcome!

[C Moon]

85. Trump wasn't elected to President, he was placed there.

[Kentonio]

90. It beggars belief..

But that’s the story. Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know. Say hello to everybody OK?

Is he 4 fucking years old or something!?

[Vinca]

92. I stopped after the first paragraph. The man is nuts. Grade A nuts. It's terrifying.

[Maru Kitteh]

96. It's not going to be getting any better!

Oh, I cannot wait to see how he babbles and rants when this HC bill crashes and burns today.