Donald Trump isn’t going to make it

| 9:09 am EDT October 16, 2024
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After Donald Trump stood on stage for thirty minutes and listened to music in mentally incompetent fashion while a confused audience was expecting a town hall, I was stunned that Trump’s babysitters allowed him to go through with a planned interview with Bloomberg News the next day. When Trump responded to a question in that interview about Google by rambling incoherently about Virginia, it wasn’t surprising at all that Trump’s people then began canceling his other planned interviews. It’s becoming clear that Trump isn’t going to make it.

I’m not saying that Trump is going to pass away before election day. While dementia can be fatal, patients with advanced dementia can live for years. Everything about dementia is a crapshoot, except for the singular fact that it always gets worse over time. And once that downward spiral starts accelerating, it starts really accelerating.

So in terms of specifics, we don’t know what we’re looking at over these final three weeks. We just know that Trump is so far gone, he’s utterly humiliating himself when he does appear in public, and now his people are canceling at least some of his public appearances as a result. This guy obviously can’t do another debate. We just saw that he can’t even do a town hall with his own supporters. He can’t do a one on one interview. He can’t give a rally speech without insulting the city he’s speaking in. He can’t do anything.

It’s not just that Trump is going to spend the final three weeks of this election limping along in senile fashion while his babysitters try to hide him. It’s that if he’s this bad off in October, imagine him in January. If he were to somehow win this election, he’d be taking office fully senile, too deep into dementia to know what’s even going on. Even if Trump remained in office, he’d be purely a figurehead. JD Vance would, either officially or unofficially, be President of the United States. Vance is an extremist monster. And Vance himself is a puppet of some of the most deranged extremists on the planet.

So it’s not just that Donald Trump is a walking corpse, and is going to spend the rest of this election humiliating himself and/or hiding. It’s that JD Vance is now the de facto Republican nominee. Trump is finished as a functioning adult. JD Vance is the ticket. We need to push Vance out front these final three weeks, because he’s the one running for President, not Trump.