Donald Trumpโs apparent cognitive decline has been on full display in recent weeks, as heโs ramped up his rallies, speeches, and various public appearances with the 2024 presidential election closing in.
The amount of gaffes, slurs, and slip-ups has grown to such a degree that people have begun to share montages across social media. At this point, itโs certainly no secret to the American public that Donald Trump is beginning to truly struggle on a mental level. However, as it turns out, itโs not a secret to his staff, either.
MSNBCโs White House reporter Jonathan Lemire appeared on a recent โMorning Joeโ segment where he confirmed that Donald Trumpโs campaign team is not only more than well aware of their bossโ significant cognitive and mental decline, but theyโre actively working to hide it from the American public as Trump desperately tries to drag himself over the election finish line.
The recent โMorning Joeโ episode saw a strong focus on Donaldโs multiple campaign events that saw an almost inconceivable amount of cognitive decay from the former president and Republican frontrunner.
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Heโs surrounded entirely by enablers during this campaign and would be again if heโd be in the White House a second time,โ Lemire said. โThere would be no guardrails or adults in the room, itโd be people doing what he wants. To your point, he is not the same guy. You can watch video footage of the 2016 campaign, some of his time in the White House. We played last week a clip from the debate between Trump and [President Joe] Biden back in 2020. It was striking even then how much Trump has changed, how heโs aged. He is in his late 70s, he is only a couple years younger than President Biden. Weโre seeing with more and more frequency, even as the media โ and we talked about it earlier, how the weekend was full of polls and obsession about President Bidenโs age โ it is this, Trump, who day after day is showing the signs of age but also pressure.โ
โIndeed, pressure because he is not getting as much of the share of the Republican vote as heโd like,โ Lemire went on to add. โNikki Haley posting a win over the weekend. Pressure because of the money he now owes, nearly half a billion dollars in a couple cases in New York City, and pressure that his first criminal case, a case that could theoretically put him in prison, starts in just three weeks. We are seeing it night after night on the rally stage, where he seems to even just lose control of the English language. Mika [Brzezinski] cringes, I canโt help it either at the end of that clip. His team knows, but theyโre just forging forward.โ
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough chimed in to add, โTheyโre trying to keep him off the stage as much as possible. Obviously, they donโt want that out there. They donโt want him on Truth Social. Again, he only hurts himself politically.โ
You can watch the MSNBC clip here:
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