The Friday Brief

October 18, 2024

This Big Picture

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Decline, Dementia, and Donald

His rapid and irreversible descent towards metaphorically (and literally) soiling himself in public reminds us that his time on this earth is ticking away. The cruel depredations of age seek us all, but for Donald Trump, it’s playing out on every stage where his staff wheels his corpulent suet bag of a body before the cameras.

The slurring, discursive fecal sluice of lies and incoherence on display now at every single event debunks any argument that Trump’s mental acuity is up to par for the Presidency.