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Biden's issue wasn't limited to the debate. That just settled any doubts. I don't think he has dementia though, I think he just got too frail. Faltering acuity that comes with age is a long ways from dementia. Dementia isn't forgetting where you left your keys, dementia is forgetting what keys are for.
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Really?
2016:
2026:
I didn't look hard for those clips. I'm sure you could find more egregious examples. And FWIW, I don't even intend this a dig. I'm only pushing back, because there have been multiple occasions where I've stumbled across a clip from him back then and been surprised at how lucid he sounds he sounds in comparison to what I'm used to. IOW, he was more normal than I remember. No, his dropoff hasn't been as steep as Biden's was, but it's very noticeable. I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of his term, he's at least as bad as Biden was in the summer of 2024.
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This is like the last comparison that was posted in this thread.Really?
2016:
2026:
I didn't look hard for those clips. I'm sure you could find more egregious examples. And FWIW, I don't even intend this a dig. I'm only pushing back, because there have been multiple occasions where I've stumbled across a clip from him back then and been surprised at how lucid he sounds he sounds in comparison to what I'm used to. IOW, he was more normal than I remember. No, his dropoff hasn't been as steep as Biden's was, but it's very noticeable. I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of his term, he's at least as bad as Biden was in the summer of 2024.
The 2016 example is a controlled probably edited maybe rehearsed maybe even scripted interview. The 2026 example is raw live action off the cuff dealing with a room full of people.
How about state of the union address 2018:
Compared to state of the union address 2026:
That's two completely even steven comparisons.
Two more. 2016 press conference:
2026 press conference:
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Clips from Trump in 2016 to today seem to have a fair amount of difference, particularly if we cherry pick them like Fox did with Biden. Others here have now posted some of the clips that show a difference. I agree, it doesn't matter; he will remain President and he isn't terminal. In the meantime, it seems we have Republicans doing what Democrats did with Biden, but then again, both sides have always been hypocritical.
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Yes the radial artery is the first choice for arterial blood gas samples.
This is on the opposite side of one’s hand from where we witness Presidential Trump’s hematoma/brusing, being.
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Is that bruise from August 2025 still there?
Good grief the president can't even get a bruise without certain people carrying on about it nearly a year later. That's gotta be a sign of having an unhealthy obsession over someone.
Take two aspirin and see if you can go a day without Trump living in your head.
Good grief the president can't even get a bruise without certain people carrying on about it nearly a year later. That's gotta be a sign of having an unhealthy obsession over someone.
Take two aspirin and see if you can go a day without Trump living in your head.
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While a full-blown dementia diagnose may be sensationalizing things a bit, the concerns around Biden (at least for me, and I voted for the guy) were overall decline.
If you watch some of his speeches from the 80s & 90s, and even his VP debate performance against Paul Ryan from 2012... and then compare that to the version of Biden we got when he was president, there's no avoiding that there was serious decline.
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Compare these to the speeches and public performances he was giving 2020-2024. It's quite a difference.
In the case of Trump, I've noticed he seems to be nodding off during some press conferences (not a good thing -- which is why I've harped on there needing to be a max age for assuming that office). But when he does speak, I'm not seeing the the same level of contrast between that and how he talked in 2016, vs what I see in the difference between 2012 Biden and 2020 Biden.
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So you're saying that his speeches, energy, demeanor, etc... for the 2020-2024 era were just as good as in the videos I posted?
Hardly...
And setting up this "unless you have a doctors diagnosis" standard is disingenuous for two reasons.
A) "The only way you can prove me wrong is if you get a piece of data that's HIPAA protected and won't be publicly available", that's setting up a standard that can never be met. It'd be like someone demanding "you can't claim Trump has a Narcissistic personality issue unless you show me the signed form from his personal psychologist officially diagnosing him with that" -- yeah, that's a piece of information that simply can't be provided.
B) No, you don't always need a doctor's diagnosis for confirmation on certain things. That's just a deflection and stall tactic in these types of debates.
Much like you don't need to have an MD license (or wait for an MD to "officially make a statement") to know that a person is having a heart attack.
No to mention, with the level of denial some people exhibited pertaining to refusing to acknowledge the decline of a president they like, having a doctor say it wouldn't be sufficient for them anyway, they'd just move the goalposts and bring up the fact that in American medicine, the misdiagnosis rate ranges from 5-15% -- thereby having another brick to throw up on the wall for why "that doesn't count"
You don't need an MD to use your eyes and ears and see a man who gave powerful speeches, commanded rooms, and had solid public debate performances, and then 10 years later, constantly stammered over his words, clearly couldn't collect his thoughts -- and on some occasions, wandered around like a Roomba trying to find its charging station, and realize that there was significant decline happening.
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