Confused Donald Trump struggles while encountering his own name on the teleprompter

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It’s not just that Donald Trump is so senile, he has to read his “speeches” off a teleprompter. It’s that he’s so senile, he can’t even do that right. These days Trump often forgets he’s supposed to be reading a script, and instead starts stringing random words together that he thinks are stories. He also increasingly don’t seem familiar with what he’s seeing on the screen.

Recently Trump didn’t appear to recognize the name of his potential running mate Elise Stefanik when he saw it on the teleprompter. Now a confused Trump has suffered the humiliation of not knowing what to do with his own name when he saw it on the teleprompter:

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This is just going to keep getting worse and worse. Donald Trump’s babysitters can no longer hide his senility. He’s going to keep having moments like this with increasing frequency until eventually he’s up on stage, staring at an audience he doesn’t understand is real, asking for someone to bring him the remote control so he can change the channel.

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