Donald Trump slurring words at rally raises questions

Trump is clearly a moron with some kind of clinical brain dysfunction, but this is just like 2 seconds of fumbling with words, which pretty much anyone who does public speaking can do. I was expecting more than like 2 second's worth based on how big a deal the story sounded like.

IDK, maybe Newsweek is trying to run cover for him by running a big non-story about something innocuous to distract from the Nikki Haley / Nancy Pelosi thing.

I really don't understand Newsweek.
Right, it's one or two words he fumbles. His cognitive decline has been observed since 2016, nothing new here.
The article first says the video "is stoking concern among social media users" which, if you ask me, is not something news worthy. But then it goes on to point out how this was re-posted by the Biden campaign. Which does seems a little more of interest than just a bunch of yahoos on twitter pointing fingers.
Newsweek seems to always have a bullshit story above the fold and something somewhat relevant below it.
This clip is pretty much on par with everything that tumbles out of his mouth. "Until you're vetted and everything else" is what I heard. I'm so sick of non-stories about Trump when there are so so so many credible things to attack him for.
- I found your comment by searching for "Until you're vetted". It was easy enough to understand what he was saying that I was able to just search for the words I heard and find them here.
  It's easy to hear what he's saying, sure he's "slurring the words", but it's not like a drunk slurring the words, or like he's had a stroke. He's just speaking in a sloppy way, not enunciating his words. There's a clear difference from earlier speeches where the words he was speaking were gibberish, but his enunciation was better. But, so what? What does that prove?
  The Nikky Haley thing was a bigger gaffe, and more likely to indicate his not thinking correctly. But, again, it's just a gaffe. Biden also made plenty of gaffes, even when he was much younger.
  None of this matters though. What matters is what will happen if Trump becomes president again. His first term resulted in all kinds of damage, and that's despite the fact that he didn't really have the Republican establishment behind him, and that so many of his staff were inexperienced. This time the main reason he's running is to be able to pardon himself from various crimes. He's going to have the new republican party behind him pushing extreme ideas, and he's going to be out for vengeance for all his enemies.
  I really hope that going after him for "slurring his words" isn't actually an effective strategy for the Biden team, because if it's the kind of thing that actually sways votes, it shows how bad things really are in the US.
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Your take seems the most plausible to me, especially considering the clip they link to is super super short and removes any context.
I immediately wondered why this was a story given that clip.
The last time Newsweek reported on him 🙄
You have a twice-impeached president but focus on this?
- Yeah. I'm becoming more and more convinced that Newsweek is blowing up non-stories about Trump to dilute genuine criticism of him by creating a "stupid criticism of Trump that has no merit" bucket in people's minds.
- I mean they are both old as hell. I actually have been really pleased and surprised with what Biden's done but he's definitely old, and he doesn't have Trump's animating meanness energy to keep him sustained.
You aren't wrong about any of this, but let's not forget that a split second "BYAAAAAH" (Howard Dean) can tank an entire presidential run if it gets media attention.
With that said, Trump has had dozens of these blunders over the years. It means nothing.

It would be hilarious if Trump just keeled over. Not only would his fans go nuts with insane theories but it would save the country a lot of trouble.

Arguably, it's the best thing that could happen for this country right now, that's also in the realm of possibility. Like, a meteor conveniently taking out the more corrupt half of the supreme Court would obviously be better, but not realistic.
- I keep thinking someone might assassinate him. But that makes him some kind of martyr, which is bad. But then I wonder who would be the next demagogue and how would they use that to their advantage?
- No, not right now. September or October would be better.
I get a little bit excited every time there's a Breaking News alert on my phone. Unfortunately the definition of breaking news is now such that it basically means someone retweeted something stupid.
- GAME OVER: [Person with center-left politics/retired GOP politician with no skin in the game] TOTALLY HUMILIATES [Trump/MTG/any GOP demagogue] with argument
  …it’s a just a tweet into the void that nobody with any stake in said argument will ever read
  Thanks, HuffPost, MSNBC, et al, for basically all being MeidasTouch
You know they will wait for 3 days outside Maralago for the third cumming of christ.
- And then Jesus came...
All those Big Macs and KFC Big Crunch's have to come back to haunt him eventually. Dude can't be the only person on Earth immune to cholesterol.
Honestly, I think him keeling over before the primaries are finished will harm the country. One of his opponents could run basically unopposed, and they're all pretty shit.
- And the moderate conservatives that are sitting it out because trump will gladly show up and check the (R) box for pretty much anyone else. Don’t know why it’s so tough to get people to show up and vote on the democratic side, the conservatives will show up and vote for roadkill.
Trump kneeling over and dying would be arguably the worse outcome. We all saw what happened when Dear Leader took a L, with the culmination being January 6.
In Trump land, unless Dear Leader dies in a golden light and ascends to heaven. The autopsy could be conducted live with the most unbiased person and it still wouldn't matter. There will be massive conspiracy theories about the "Biden Crime Family"/Deep state/Hunter Biden's laptop etc. assassinated Trump and that revenge needs to be taken.
Trump needs to be made irrelevant first. No one is going to storm a building over someone who is irrelevant.

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Long story short, one of the more savvy outlets of the Evangelical right.

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Does that mean they're turning on Trump? Because this sure isn't a positive story about him.
- They tend to try to seem centrist. They're savvy about it, so they're not necessarily interested in being caught out at being a straight-up, purist, propaganda rag.
  That said, I'm not sure if they support Trump or not. Not all evangelicals do, since he's not very Jesus-like. I've been trying to remind people of that myself recently, despite not personally being a very religious person.

Sounds like Aphasia, maybe the 2 brain cells collided and caused a stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia

But I'm not an expert, it would have been nice to have the rest of the speech.

Trump's picture has been my mnemonic for dysarthria which is a bit more of a precise term for what we're talking about.
- There's also the possibility of tertiary syphilis.
- That might be more plausible, I've just seen Aphasia a few times, dysarthria is new to me, but it fits better with an earlier incident, where they claimed it was dry mouth.

If racial slurs did tank his candidacy, regular old slurring probably won’t.

Is Donald Trump secretly a cyborg with malfunctioning speech synthesis software?
Could he have accidentally taken Valium instead of his daily multivitamins?
Did someone place a curse on him using an ancient Mayan spell for turning people into slow-talking zombies?
Was he subjected to some top-secret government mind control experiment gone wrong?
Has he been possessed by the ghost of James Earl Jones?
Did aliens kidnap him, replaced him with a clone whose vocal chords were damaged during birth?
Did he take part in a hypnotherapy session to become a more relaxed version of himself?
Does he have a severe case of sleep apnea only exhibited when speaking in public?
Was he attempting to record a hilarious hidden track for his next presidential album?
Were his vocal cords affected by a mishap while eating spicy food before the event?
Is there a chance he's suffering from a neurological disorder such as Parkinson's Disease?
Is it possible he's now fluent in Klingon and we're all misinterpreting his guttural growls?
Could it be that he has a rare form of laryngitis caused by shouting too loudly over the years?
Or perhaps, he's being remotely controlled by a puppet master through voice commands?

Truly, questions were raised.
I read this in Tucker Carlson’s voice.
- And I will thank my lucky stars I have no fucking clue what that sounds like. Instead, I'll go with Kermit. Or Marvin, the Martian, who is similar because I'm not very good with voices.

His speech wasn't exactly attractive before. He sounds more and more like his base the longer this dog and pony show continues.

This is fucking stupid. Donald Trump appears to run out of breath while saying "and everything else". Surely this will convince the MAGA turds to abandon him. Surely it won't just undermine legitimate criticism.

Yeah, I'm sure THAT'S what will convince them to drop him. Not all the other far too many issues, but his slurred speech. For sure. ^/s

If it's interpreted as weakness, maybe.
- He's an overweight 77 year old in heel lifts with a bad hair restoration job.
  Weakness isn't what bothers them. They just want somebody who hates all the same people they hate. To see their bumfuck opinions parroted back to them by a man in a tie.

He is doing what he believes Biden does.

Every accusation is a confession.

I’m not from the US, but I have the distinct opinion that both Biden and Trump are too old. My parents are/were younger, and I wouldn’t trust them with decisions about anything other than what they want for breakfast.

Bernie Sanders seems saner, but you guys really need some lesser-than-septuagenarian who has non-Xitter oomph, and who has compassion and respect for human life and the planet.

He's slurred his words, forgotten words, used the wrong words, acts like he's on ketamine half of the time.

He might be too old to be president, guys.

acts like he’s on ketamine
When I'm spangled on ketamine I'm a philosopher king compared to Trump.

What are the chances he had a stroke, or a heart attack?

God I hope he did lol

It does not really raise questions. It just confirms many peoples' suspicions: that he is senile and unfit for office.

I just briefly looked at the article, watched one video which was 30 seconds of people cheering and Trump being silent.
The second video was him speaking a few sentences and the last one he says something like 'stay in Mexico until you tjhgwgqcannfonfbvafa'
Is that it? Trump's a fucking loon but this shit empowers his voting base, it's so minor it's not even worth talking about

"Yoshemites."

Imagine not knowing how to pronounce Yosemite, arguably the 2nd most famous park in the US.

I'm no Trump supporter but it's pretty clear that he was just rushing through the words cause they didn't matter. Didn't even seem like a slurring of words to me.

Really, just him still being an actual candidate raises more questions for me.

That video was too short for a diagnosis. Anyone got the rest?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A video that appears to show Donald Trump slurring his words at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Sunday is stoking concern among social media users.

The five-second clip was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by the Biden-Harris HQ account, which is run by Joe Biden's re-election campaign.

In the footage, taken from conservative outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network, Trump comments: "You don't have to be a total genius, remain in Mexico, until you've..." at which point he becomes unintelligible for the final two seconds.

Republicans have focused heavily on the health and mental acumen of Joe Biden, with several arguing the 81-year-old doesn't have the stamina for another four years in the White House.

The video from the Biden-Harris HQ was reshared on X by the 'Biden's Wins' account, which has over 306,000 followers and added: "BREAKING: Donald Trump is slurring his words.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Sunday dropped out of the Republican leadership race and endorsed Trump, while claiming his main rival Nikki Haley represents "warmed over corporatism."

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This is not the best attack vector by any stretch.

Everyone knows Trump is borderline senile, including his supporters.

Similarly, everyone knows Joe Biden is borderline senile, including his supporters.

We're in this together, I guess? Both parties seemingly happy to be led by fossils who each drift in and out of coherency.

It would be exceedingly hilarious, if it wasn't sad because it's the elderly, except it's not sad either, because it's some of the most powerful people on the entirety of this, the only planet we currently have:

It is fucking terrifying.

Biden isn't borderline senile.
- Look, in fairness I didn't say which side of the border.

Trump can elect himself to the Oval Nursing Home, if not the Oval Jail.

I'm so glad Biden doesn't slur words yet. Biden 2024!

Biden should really have people focus on his team, not make it about himself.
Genocidal Geriatric vs Deranged Donald.

He will suddenly become cured.

Human-unconscious-mind REQUIRES that he be dictator, to fight-off considered-reasoning, absolutely, from the US,

.. so, some kind of "miracle" is likely to happen.

Consider this to be a kind of bet, rather than mere-nonsense.

Sometime in 2024, probably in the next-quarter ( Jan20-ish to Apr22-ish ) Trump'll suddenly become competent-psychopath, instead of damaged-narcissist, as his primary psychology, and his followers will rejoice!!

His cuts on his hand, a few days ago, are related.

A simple "stroke" can edit-out the limiting-portion-of-his-brain, leaving just the effectiveness portion.

Sudden personality difference.

Due to my religion, I only bet nothings, now.

So, I'm betting every person who bets otherwise, a nothing, that this is going to happen.

( luckily, nothings don't require postage, so we can bet as many of 'em as we want! : )

Even betting a nothing, however, is still a committing-of-karma, a registering-of-intent with Universe that is containing one.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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I’m going to accept your lived experience as a stroke expert.
- Lol savage
Consider this to be a kind of bet, rather than mere-nonsense.
I'm afraid I can't do that.