Donald Trump on Saturday was hit with an avalanche of criticism in response to his suggestion that he looks like Elvis Presley.The former president said earlier in the day that people throughout his life have compared his looks to those of the King of Rock and Roll. Even on Truth Social, the ex-pres...
This is one of those stories that I have to apply the filter of: STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.
He says this shit on purpose to get a rise out of stupid people that hate him. It keeps him in the news in areas he would normally drop to the wayside. Say what you will about his mental acuity or emotional intelligence, the man knows how to stay in the spotlight.
I can’t think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don’t look.
Idk, the dude has been showing signs of advancing dementia for a few years now.
I think we’re at most a few months from him sundowning on live TV. If his heart lasts that long, that is.
I’ll generally agree, but at least based on this article, I wouldn’t say “I think I look like Elvis” to be a matter of diminishing mental capacity, it’s just unjustified narcissism.
There’s so much other things to illustrate mental capacity issues that I feel like we shouldn’t feel compelled to rope this into that neighborhood. That just serves to discredit the criticism.
BUT HE’S THE FRONTRUNNER FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Its not like Trump just goes away if you stop paying attention to him.
That worked as a punchline to anthropomorphic ad monsters doing spoofs and goofs in a cartoon. It isn’t advice that’s neatly transferable to chief executives in positions of immense power and privilege. I can’t ignore Donald Trump any more than I can ignore Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, because I am constantly surrounded by the consequences of their decisions.
And this one is… so utterly pointless…
So he says he looks like Elvis, big deal. He’s full of himself so it should be no surprise that he has an unrealistically optimistic self-image. As far as things goes, this is so utterly harmless.
So ok, have a chuckle that he is way off base, but trying to use this as evidence of “dementia”? There’s so much better to go on and this silliness doesn’t even rate on the scale. I could easily imagine a 30 year old Trump saying the same delusional thing but without thinking “diminished mental faculties”.
When there’s media hysterics about something as benign as this, it lends credence to the voice of critics that the media is just crazily, irrationally going after Trump. Meanwhile, there’s an endless flow of really damning stuff to fixate on without having to ‘stretch’ to discuss something like this.
Like with Obama, at least I understood why the conservatives had to go nuts about a tan suit or a fist bump, Obama just didn’t provide much fodder for them to work with. Resorting to about the equivalent with Trump seems completely needless.
Guarantee void in Tennessee!