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News organization are slowly waking up to his changing behavior this last month (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/uspolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's been showing his age for a long time - there's a reason he had to take a dementia test during his presidency. But it hasn't been "turn Q&A into standing around listening to music without warning" bad until very recently. Seems like a sharp turn downward started around the start of August?

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think it was before August that I started hearing about how he would change his train of thought mid-sentence and shit like that

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 16 points 3 days ago

I can't remember a time he wasn't like that.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you read any of his speeches since 2016? He changes subject several times each sentence and that is just the default setting.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Nothing like now though. There’s a clear difference. He would pivot, but now he seems lost