Post by minx on Feb 17, 2024 11:27:43 GMT -5
Read a very interesting article in the Atlantic yesterday.
Guy got a chance to interview Trump in 2014 when no one (including the author) actually thought he'd run for president, let alone win.
Said that he was deranged, and pretty delusional then as well. He walked away saying that Trump had no attention span whatsoever, had almost no interest in running his companies - just in being the face of them. Bragged about all the women he could get with a snap of his fingers, went on and on about the whole birther thing, ect.
And he wrote a pretty fair assessment of him as a narcissist who only cared about himself and someone who used people until he no longer needed them (at which point they were tossed to the wayside and forgotten).
So, he's revisiting the subject because people who knew about the article (he had almost 3 hours of direct access to Trump with no restrictions), call him because they want him to say that Trump has gotten worse.
He said he's listened back to the tapes of the interview more than once and unfortunately, he can't see any real signs that he's gotten cognitively worse - just that his ego has gotten significantly larger. His greed and disjointed thinking are pretty much the same as they always were (although he's ranting more).
His conclusion.
Trump is a deranged nut job and has always been one. But everyone knows that - this wasn't news before 2016.
So people see his rantings and think 'More of the same'
But Biden is a measured, mature man who was always a voice of reason.
So seeing him stumble and make cognitive mistakes is much more concerning to people and his decline is much more obvious.
This is why he's in trouble at the polls - his decline is clear while Trump's isn't.
The article make perfect sense, and scares the crap out of me, because there really isn't a way that Biden can get in front of this - he is having memory issues, and I don't know that he's up to another 4 years of this.
And we all know that Trump isn't going to actually run the country, right? He'll have advisors. Just like Hitler did....
Guy got a chance to interview Trump in 2014 when no one (including the author) actually thought he'd run for president, let alone win.
Said that he was deranged, and pretty delusional then as well. He walked away saying that Trump had no attention span whatsoever, had almost no interest in running his companies - just in being the face of them. Bragged about all the women he could get with a snap of his fingers, went on and on about the whole birther thing, ect.
And he wrote a pretty fair assessment of him as a narcissist who only cared about himself and someone who used people until he no longer needed them (at which point they were tossed to the wayside and forgotten).
So, he's revisiting the subject because people who knew about the article (he had almost 3 hours of direct access to Trump with no restrictions), call him because they want him to say that Trump has gotten worse.
He said he's listened back to the tapes of the interview more than once and unfortunately, he can't see any real signs that he's gotten cognitively worse - just that his ego has gotten significantly larger. His greed and disjointed thinking are pretty much the same as they always were (although he's ranting more).
His conclusion.
Trump is a deranged nut job and has always been one. But everyone knows that - this wasn't news before 2016.
So people see his rantings and think 'More of the same'
But Biden is a measured, mature man who was always a voice of reason.
So seeing him stumble and make cognitive mistakes is much more concerning to people and his decline is much more obvious.
This is why he's in trouble at the polls - his decline is clear while Trump's isn't.
The article make perfect sense, and scares the crap out of me, because there really isn't a way that Biden can get in front of this - he is having memory issues, and I don't know that he's up to another 4 years of this.
And we all know that Trump isn't going to actually run the country, right? He'll have advisors. Just like Hitler did....
