We really should be talking about Donald Trump’s growing obsession with his own death

| 3:00 pm EDT August 11, 2024
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Donald Trump keeps saying increasingly absurd things as his cognitive abilities collapse and as he becomes desperate to take attention back for himself in what has clearly become Kamala Harris’ show. We’ve all taken plenty of notice at the absurdity of what’s been coming out of Trump’s mouth. But I think we’re overlooking a pattern here.

Take a look at what Trump keeps talking about the most obsessively: getting electrocuted. A murderous cannibal. Getting eaten by a shark. It’s all absurd, yes. Unhinged, definitely. Weird, absolutely. But it appears to reveal that Trump has become utterly obsessed with his own death.

That’s right, Trump keeps becoming more and more verbally obsessed with ways that he might die. He’s choosing deranged nonsensical methods of dying because he’s a deranged senile person. But he’s nonetheless focused on dying. He’s even now obsessing over a helicopter ride he took decades ago that had an emergency landing – an example from his own life where he came close to dying.

This would all seem logical for a guy who was injured in a shooting just a month ago. But it’s important to point out that Trump was every bit as obsessed with talking about death before he got shot at. This death obsession wasn’t triggered by the shooting. In fact the shooting oddly doesn’t seem to have impacted his behavior much at all. That’s probably because Trump was already so openly obsessed with the ways he might die.

So what’s made Trump so obsessed with whether he’s going to get electrocuted, or eaten, or well, eaten? My guess is that as his cognitive abilities continue to falter, Trump knows something is wrong. He doesn’t fully understand the dementia that’s taking hold of him, but he senses himself slipping away. So now he’s obsessed with how he might die. The fact that he’s obsessing about unhinged scenarios is just a reminder that he’s always been unhinged. But his obsession with dying is seemingly an indicator that he doesn’t think he has much time left before his failing health gives out on him completely.

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