"What do you think they [protesters] want?" Harris Faulkner of Fox News asked the president. "What do you think they need, right now, from you?"
Here was Trump's answer, verbatim:
"Protesters for different reasons. You're protesting also because, you know, they just didn't know. I've watch - I watched very closely. Why are you here? They really weren't able to say, but they were there for a reason, perhaps.
"But a lot of them really were there because they're following the crowd. A lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing. What we saw was a terrible thing. And we've seen it over the years. We haven't, you know, this was one horrible example, but you've seen other terrible examples. You know that better than anybody who would know it. And I know it. I've seen it, too. I've seen it before I was president. I've seen it. I think it's a shame. I think it's a disgrace. And it's got to stop."
Edit: This quote was from 2020
There are kind of credible rumors that he has dementia. Answers like that really make me believe those rumors - it is kind of unimaginable that the president of the United State seems to be unaware of mass protests against him everywhere in the country
Personally I think it's been glaringly obvious since sometime during his first term that he's not all there, and every time there is discussion about "whether" he has cognitive issues I am stunned that the discussion isn't instead "he has cognitive issues, what do we do about it?"
Are they any recent examples of his word salad?
he's taken several cognitive tests. one was DURING his presidency. It gave us person woman man camera tv. He was boasting that his handlers were so worried about it that they just HAD to take him to get tested.
I've never seen that video until today. I clicked on it waiting for the inevitable "the doctors were blown away, they'd never seen anyone score that good, my mental acuity is unprecedented it's historys best mental acuity" and sure enough within 30 seconds lol
He talked like this throughout his first term too so I don't give it much weight
Let's be honest here: He was not normal in his first term, spoke weird even on the campaign trail and what he did as president was not really competent, either. And if you look at old footage from 2015 or 2016, yes, it has gotten worse.
He's been talking bullshit his whole life. He's basically like every guy that's tried to sell you a timeshare. He's probably declining, but you can find videos from 20, 30 years ago where he doesn't sound much better. He's also very incurious, so if it wasn't on Fox News he probably didn't even know it was happening.