Senile Donald Trump brags to half empty venue about how he’s filled the place to capacity
Donald Trump keeps displaying worsening symptoms consistent with dementia, from combining multiple people in his life into one person, to not knowing what the current year or decade is, to ranting incoherently about sharks and batteries, to thinking a fictional cannibal is real and in the audience. But at what point does Trump get so deep into dementia that he can’t process what’s in front of his face?
Trump is giving a speech right now to a half empty venue in Michigan, according to multiple reporters on the ground. That’s a problem for him, given that it signals a clear lack of swing state momentum for his flagging campaign down the stretch. It’s even more of a problem for Trump that, even as he looked out at the half empty venue, he went off script to brag about how no one else could have filled the venue to capacity but him.
In other words Trump is so far gone, he’s hallucinating that he’s speaking to a full venue even though he can see the sea of empty bleachers in front of him. His babysitters probably told him that the venue was full before he went on stage, and as impressionable as people with advanced dementia tend to be, his failing brain decided to believe that instead of what his eyes were showing him.
It’s a real problem for Trump that his cognitive abilities are completely failing down the home stretch of this election. That’s before getting to the other problem where he can’t even fill a venue anymore.
