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People Questioning Trump’s Mental Fitness After He Says He ‘Just Returned From India’
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday challenging how social media companies oversee posts and content on their site — though experts doubt the order has much power, and at the end of the signing he took some questions and made some rather….strange comments.
“We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers,” Trump said before signing the order, which directs government agencies in charge of communications to see if they can further regulate social media companies. But experts tell The Associated Press that Trump’s attempt to curtail “censorship” will probably end up forcing social media platforms to further crack down on controversial posts, seeing as Trump has taken aim at a provision that excepts those platforms from being prosecuted for user-generated content.
The move comes just days after Twitter labeled two of Trump’s tweets on mail-in ballots as misleading, with links to a fact-check page on the matter. Trump claimed Twitter has “unchecked power” in the public sphere and has become biased, suggesting without evidence that social media tries to “edit” and “silence” conservatives.
During the question and answer session, Trump was asked a question by an Indian reporter and Trump joked that the reporter only asks questions about India, and then commented that he “just returned from India” and that he “just beat COVID.”
Ummm, what?
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Trump was in India in February…three months ago…and I have no idea what he means when he says he beat COVID. I think he means that he returned to the US from India before all the international flights were shut down due to COVID? It’s difficult to understand Trumpspeak.
He is so mentally unwell, he couldn't find his ass with a road map. The hell is he talking about?
Trump: "I just got back from India. I just beat Covid!" pic.twitter.com/BP3lRRqJUM
— 💙 Koko 🥁 💙 (@Kokomothegreat) May 28, 2020
Since Trump didn’t just return from India, many people on Twitter are questioning Trump’s mental fitness:
This is why an unstable drug addict lost in a soupy haze of dementia and untreated tertiary syphilis shouldn’t lead this country.
— JMPanz (@JeannePancurak) May 28, 2020
Seriously – his pupils are the size of dimes…how high is he?
— Dixie Scott (@DixieScott) May 28, 2020
Dementia, he’s been having trouble remember times and places in the last few months
— Hogan Gidley’s Toupée (@GidleyToupee) May 28, 2020
Donald, you returned from India THREE MONTHS AGO!
Does hydroxychloroquine cause memory loss?— ⭐️ Merrill – sheltering at home ⭐️ (@MerrillLynched) May 28, 2020
if you listen closely, you can hear the exact moment when the hamster falls off the wheel in our president's head
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 28, 2020
just another moment of obvious mental incapacity that won't even make the paper
— Bryan Fichter (@bfichter1313) May 28, 2020
That was 4 months ago. His brain is broken.
— Craig GDiddy (@GDiddy64) May 28, 2020
Well to be fair, elderly people with dementia often have no sense of time. Something that happened 50 years ago seems like it happened yesterday. For the COVID thing tho I got nothing.
— Deb (@DebandKhola) May 28, 2020
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