Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty
There is some irony in that it apparently took Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race for more people to take notice of the growing number of signs suggesting that Donald Trump, 78, is suffering from the same mental decline and cognitive issues that he tried to assign to President Joe Biden.
The latest evidence of that strong possibility being true came on Thursday afternoon when Trump held a press conference following suspicions that he was ducking the media as Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate Gov. Tim Walz conducted a series of triumphant campaign rallies around the U.S.
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The press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, of course, was replete with lies and extreme exaggeration, including one that invoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s good name. But it also featured at least one notable instance of an obvious misunderstanding of the term “asylum.”
While fearmongering about “illegal aliens” during an ill-informed rant about immigration, Trump asked why “millions of people are allowed to come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums — even from insane asylums.”
Comparing the nation’s southern border to “a mental institution on steroids,” Trump said without proof that those such “institutions” were “being emptied out … all over the world,” implying their occupants were illegally entering the U.S.
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However, a closer listen reveals that Trump is misusing the word “asylum” to only refer to institutions specializing in mental health, while ignoring the legal path of undocumented immigrants seeking asylum at the border.
Those are two very different concepts, both of which it is assumed that presidential candidates should have a firm understanding. But you know what they say about people who assume.
Thursday wasn’t the first time Trump has said this, either.
Trump has also said that people crossing the border are bringing “very contagious diseases” with them despite the absence of any proof of that claim.
Meanwhile, during the same press conference, Trump — possibly suffering from an incurable case of size envy — said with a straight face that his rallies command a larger presence than Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have A Dream” speech around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
That is nothing to speak of how Trump has reversed his stance on how Walz handled the George Floyd protests in and around Minnesota in the wake of the horrific police murder in 2020.
That was when Trump praised Walz’s response to the uprisings as being “incredible. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately.”
But just months ago in May, Trump gave himself credit for the response, not Walz.
“The entire city was burning down. … If you didn’t have me as president, you wouldn’t have Minneapolis today,” Trump told people attending a fundraiser.
When you add the above instances that came during the same speech alongside all the previous instances of apparent mental decline — and counting — the evidence of Trump experiencing cognitive problems has been long mounting.
Harris’ candidacy seemingly put Trump’s campaign into a tailspin from which it has yet to fully recover.
A growing number of polls give the edge to Harris over Trump in a reversal of circumstances from before Biden dropped out.
This is America.
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