2024 Election

Trump Looks Like a ‘100 Year Old’ Fool, Slurring and Unable to Read Teleprompter During Las Vegas Event

He's going downhill fast.

At this point, it would almost be surprising if Donald Trump didn’t look like a complete idiot at his rallies. Sometimes I complain about the fact that we’ve normalized his behavior when it comes to just accepting that he’s going to say things that would get any other candidate laughed off a stage.

But with the fact that his verbal miscues and awkward, stumbling delivery are so constant, it’s hard NOT to.

Take his appearance in Las Vegas on Thursday. We all assumed beforehand that he would sound like a moron at least once, but probably a number of times. People would leave early, the venue would be half-filled — the usual stuff.

But we have to remember that these things aren’t normal. A normal person, given a freaking teleprompter, can at least get through a speech that’s right in front of their face. You just can’t expect that from Donald Trump.

Part of it can be chalked up to him so often going off the rails and wanting to improvise what he’s saying. Trump can always be counted on to think that what’s been written for him isn’t effective enough, and that he knows better. Just look at how he does his hair and how much makeup he wears.

But some people are gifted when it comes to extemporaneous speaking, and some are not. So when he tried to go off-the-cuff in his appeal to tipped workers in the Silver State, he stumbled more than usual.

It’s unfortunate for him, because Nevada is a swing state, and has the highest percentage of tipped employees in the workforce in the entire United States.

Watch as he makes up a completely new word — probably formed by mentally combining “tip” and “Kamala” just before it came out of his mouth — before giving up and moving on, unable to complete his sentence:

“Tip workers and service workers here in Nevada, increasing the so-called tipala – you know, she, she wants to – when I said…”

That’s indicative of something more than just having a hard time reading what’s in front of him. You can actually see when his brain shifts gears. He turns his body, throws up the hand, and prepares to say, well, something, we’re not sure. I’m sure it was about to be a repetition of the lie that Kamala Harris “stole” the idea of removing taxation from tips form him.

MeidasTouch.com editor Ron Filipkowski thought Trump looked old and was struggling with his reading skills, saying “Cognitively impaired 100 year old looking slurring Trump couldn’t even read his Teleprompter last night.”

Others thought some darker things, of course. One X user wrote “His brain is so addled he’s unknowingly creating portmanteaus from the words Kamala and Tip,” while another added “I believe it’s just mental impairment. In other words, he’s stupid!!”

But the real problem is that no matter how bad he looks, it won’t matter. Just like it didn’t matter when he bragged about sexually assaulting women, just like it didn’t matter when he mocked a disabled reporter, just like it doesn’t matter that he’s a convicted felon, MAGA fans will never be swayed away from Dear Leader.

Or, as this guy puts it:

That’s exactly it right there. Trump couldn’t have been more right when he famously said he could “shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue” and not lose a single voter. But it’s turned into a situation where he could do so and he would have a single question about it asked to him by the media, his support among fellow Republican politicians wouldn’t suffer in any way, and big companies wouldn’t even speak out against him, for fear that he’d figuratively “shoot” them in the middle of whatever street they’re on, by siccing his rabid MAGA followers on them.

If all else fails, he can always just call on his voters to overrun the Capitol again, like he did back in 2021 after he lost to Joe Biden. There are those who doubt he’ll do any such thing, since he’s being sentenced for the 34 felonies he was convicted of soon and he likely wants to stay out of jail.

But the fear of it must be there. Otherwise, how can you possibly explain the video above, and the fact that nobody’s talking about how mentally decrepit he is?

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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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