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Americans Disgusted After Trump Is Caught Drooling During Speech, ‘Ketamine and Antipsychotics Cause Drooling!’

This is half funny, half depressing.

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Footage from Donald Trump’s latest rally inside the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia has the former president looking worse than ever.

It’s not just that he recycled the same old nonsense yet again, or that it was such a small crowd, or any of the standard reasons. It’s that it looked like something was very clearly physically wrong with him.

Usually, when we see signs of Trump’s advancing age, it’s through the way he speaks. He mixes up people and places, rambles incoherently, and forgets common words. They’re all hallmarks of his cognitive decline.

But this is something I didn’t see in my own father-in-law until he was about 90 years old: Trump is drooling.

That sounds, of course, like I’m kidding. That’s something you only see in the movies, right? An old guy who can’t even keep the spit in his mouth? That’s a caricature, not a real person.

Right?

Not so in the case of Donald John Trump. The man who once boasted his name in 3-foot tall gold letters on the sides of hotels around the world now looks like he should be in a nursing home. Here’s a little clip of the salivating septuagenarian:

Which led some top Trump watchers to suggest drugs could be behind Trump drooling:

Of course, you’ll notice that Ron Filipkowski, the editor of MeidasTouch.com, has a bit of a different take on the cause of Trump’s gushing oratory: He thinks Trump might be on meds, and not the gentle stuff that helps old people poop.

Ketamine, first developed in the 60s as an anesthetic for animals — remember the phrase “horse tranquilizer”? Yeah, that stuff — was eventually turned into a human anesthetic about a decade later. It was used extensively in Vietnam for soldiers injured in battle.

Now, Cadet Bone Spurs might not know anything about lying on the jungle floor outside Saigon getting horse tranquilizers for his pain, but he might know a little about what else ketamine is used for: Depression.

Who knows more about being depressed than an old man with three miserable marriages, a brood of garbage children, a legacy of nonstop failure, and the looming prospect of losing historically to the most ironic opponent he could face — a prosecutor?

It’s not like Trump’s never had access. When his personal physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, was in the White House with him, reports showed the good doctor had LOADS of the stuff lying around.

Whether it’s ketamine, antipsychotics, or just plain age, it looks like the next grift opportunity is going to be the MAGA Mop.

And people were grossed out:

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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