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Is it just me, or does he seem to be a bit thinner? Ordinarily I would say that is a good sign for his health, but coupled with this obvious mental decline I wonder if he has really bad PTSD and isn't eating or sleeping well.
I would have some sympathy for him as a human. Except, you know, he wouldn't have any for anyone not named Trump.
May his suffering be proportional to that which he's caused.
Might be even simpler - the elderly can decline very quickly mentally and also physically, and that may he what we're seeing with here.
Sudden weight loss at that age can actually be a sign of poor health as the body starts to fail and can't store as much fat. I'd say that's much more likely than him growing a conscience.
Maybe he's just dialed up his coke rations.
It's pretty well documented that Trump is a teetotler. He is the way he is without the help of any mood or mind altering substances.
Maybe no alcohol, but I find cocaine very plausible. A dude named Noel Casler claimed so on podcasts (even went so far to claim that decades long abuse led to him needing diapers), but who knows.
Yeah, and the campaign promo photo where you can see that his side table drawer is packed full of "the good" Sudafed.
He is certainly someone who was deeply and irreparably harmed by his even more evil father who drove Donnie’s older brother to suicide. Trump is an example of how people who have everything can still suffer.
What is sad about Boomers in general and less so for Gen X/older millennials is not being able to stop the cycle of pain and let them be the last generation to be traumatized by their own family.
I went back to college (I am an older millennial) and it was insane to me the difference in how kids ten years younger than me were raised. Just talking with them and how they missed the whole “it’s the 80’s, fuck dem kids” parenting style.
Kids being loud? Beat them within an inch of their life. Kid needs help with school? Fuck you, asshole kid. I have TV to watch. Going to the store? Lock these asshole kids in your watertight Buick in the middle of the summer for some reason (I still don’t understand this at all).
Then I talk to younger kids who just went along with their parents to the store. It is incredible to me how truly awful Boomer parents were at being parents.
Yep. It’s helpful to recall that baby boomer parents were often suffering ptsd from various wars and nobody got help. Now you have people practicing gentle parenting.
I love my parents but they were truly terrible parents. In it for themselves and duck how the kids feel.
Not that many of them went to Vietnam. I was deployed twice myself and don’t take it out on my kids. I can see them having more generational trauma from being raised by a collection of parents that were in WW2. Although Boomers are somehow worse parents than the people who taught the Nazis.
The correction to gentle parenting is (my opinion) way too far. Treating kids like coherent individuals that can be reasoned with like an episode of Bluey is ridiculous. Lots of parents around my age tried and failed, then everyone goes off in their corners and latches onto an electronic device.
His hair looks a lot more like normal hair these days, which means he's yielding to the advice of people around him. Which in his case means he's losing his goddam mind.
I thought he was on Ozempic?
I mean he could stand to lose some weight?