Senile Donald Trump no longer appears to know that he’s “Donald Trump”
Donald Trump has begun forgetting who the people around him are. He thinks Nikki Haley is Nancy Pelosi. He thinks E. Jean Carroll is Marla Maples. He thinks Barack Obama is Joe Biden. He recently had to read the names of his kids off a card and still didn’t get them right. So how long before Trump forgets who he is? There’s evidence that it may already be happening.
During a failed attempt at a speech on Saturday, Donald Trump saw his own name on the teleprompter and read it aloud as if he were talking about some third party:
A confused Trump refers to himself in the third person while reading his teleprompter: Yes oh yes says President Trump pic.twitter.com/G8oCO4mmna
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) March 3, 2024
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It’s important to note that this isn’t a one off. It’s at least the third time in recent memory that Donald Trump has seen his own name on the teleprompter and read it aloud as if he were referring to some other person. It’s starting to feel like Donald Trump no longer understands that he’s “Donald Trump.”
Given that Trump is now getting so many other public figures confused for each other, it’s entirely plausible that he’s getting confused about who he is. If he thinks that people like Haley and Biden are someone other than who they are, perhaps he thinks that “Donald Trump” is someone other than him. This is only going to get worse for him.
