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Confused Trump Seems To Forget Whose With Him On Pittsburgh Trip-Goes On Rambling Tirade

Did Trump forget who he was traveling with this week?

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A lot more people, of late, have been noticing that Donald Trump is acting erratically, forgetting things, and saying bizarre stuff.

One such example was the president’s visit to Pittsburgh this week, when he seemed to forget who was traveling with him, while also telling a story that misstated the alma mater of Theodore Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber.

Per The Independent, the “rambling speech” came this week at an “Energy and Innovation” event in Pittsburgh, held along with Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). Per the report, the president was “delivering a characteristically weaving set of remarks about the permitting needed for power generation that will be required by artificial intelligence data centers when he admitted to the crowd he thought that AI was “not [his] thing” when he first heard about it.”

Then, he told a story about his uncle, who was a professor at MIT, and who he claimed taught Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber. However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT. He also seemed to fib that his uncle was the “longest-serving” professor at MIT.

“There’s very little difference between a mad man and a genius,” he said of Kaczynski, adding that “it didn’t work out too good for him.”

The future Unabomber attended Harvard and the University of Michigan, not MIT.

Trump also, per The Independent, had trouble remembering the name of a longtime aide,  White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios.

There were some surprised social media reactions to that episode:

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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