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The Tonight Show Questions Trump’s Cognitive Abilities in a Viral Video With … Dora The Explorer

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Presidential campaigns always produce some famous lines or phrases that come to define the race. They have staying power because they say something deeper about the dynamic in the race and the country.

“There you go again.”

“Read my lips.”

“It’s the economy, stupid.”

“Who’d you rather have a beer with?”

“Hope and change.”

“But her emails.”

“They’re rapists … and I assume, some are nice people.”

This year is no different, indeed there are likely going to be far more lines remembered, in part, because that the nation is so polarized that there is a visceral hatred of each side. And in part because Trump is just so freaking bizarre that he’s a walking cliche.

But who could have ever predicted that in a presidential race for the highest office in the richest, most powerful country on Earth, that “Person, woman, man, camera, TV” would end up as perhaps the most remembered line in a race that will define the nation for the next two to three generations? It will be remembered because it actually says so much.

This country is under the grips of COVID, the worst epidemic in one-hundred years, the economy teeters on the brink, our kids can’t safely go to school, federal stormtroopers have been unleashed upon the streets, among many other historic issues, and yet the current president is so insecure and so demented that he spends much of his time bragging about “acing” a cognitive test. He didn’t “ace” the COVID test, but he’s not going to let anyone forget that he “aced” the MCA.

Thus it is, that “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV” has come to say everything about where we stand. The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallow really nailed it.

There it is, for all of history. The power of it can be seen through the fact that it has been ripping the net apart for almost a day now.

It doesn’t matter even if he can remember five words. His judgment is far more impaired than Biden’s.

That is ridiculous.

Yes. It could well be.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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