The real reason Donald Trump keeps passing out during his criminal trial
Donald Trump keeps falling asleep during his criminal trial. It’s a bad look for obvious reasons. It suggests that he’s incapable of taking his very serious criminal trial seriously, which is a potential turnoff to voters in the middle. But why does Trump keep passing out like this?
It’s not because he’s elderly. Even if some older people are more inclined to want to take afternoon naps, they’d still make a point of staying awake during something so important to them. And Trump isn’t just dozing off in the afternoons. He sometimes dozes off shortly after the trial gets underway, which doesn’t line up with napping at all.
I’ve suggested that Trump’s tendency to doze off during his trial is a sign of worsening dementia. It’s common for dementia patients to lose track of where they are and what’s going on, and fall asleep simply because they’re too oblivious to understand why they should stay awake.
Now Dr. John Gartner is saying pretty much the same thing, pointing out that “Dementia patients frequently pass out during the day.” Gartner adds that Trump’s “apparent disease is progressing rapidly before our eyes and yet we’re being gaslit that this is ‘Trump being Trump.’ That’s true, but it is also true that Trump appears to be dementing, and the mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to report on that story.”
And that’s the real story here. Donald Trump is succumbing to dementia right in front of our eyes, yet the media is barely touching on it. That’s because if the general public accepts that Trump has dementia, he’ll be finished politically, and the media doesn’t want Trump to be finished yet. There are still another six months of very profitable ratings to be had by portraying 2024 as a horse race. And so the media is going to continue to underplay Trump’s dementia for as long as it can.
The good news is that the word is getting out anyway. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the late night talk shows of late, have been thoroughly focused on Trump’s inability to stay awake during his trials and by extension his dementia. It’s a shame that the comedians are being more honest about this than the media. But that’s how it tends to go. In any case, as I’ve been saying for awhile now, Trump’s worsening dementia is the political story of 2024. It’s just a matter of when and how it finally starts getting the headlines it deserves.
