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Former President Donald Trump’s rambling and increasingly angry speeches focused on the past have increased concerns about his age and fitness to serve another term in the White House.
The 78-year-old former president has recently suggested there was an audience at his September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris when there was none, and he has indicated that North Korea is attempting to assassinate him when he’s likely to have meant Iran.
He misspeaks and misremembers things to such a degree that it no longer appears to garner much attention.
In September, more than a month after President Joe Biden left the race, Trump was talking as if he was still running against him and not Harris.
Following the departure of Biden, Trump is the oldest nominee of a major party in US history and he would become the oldest president ever if he wins and finishes another term, at the end of which he would be 82 years old.
Over the course of the nine years that Trump has spent on the political scene, his speeches have grown bleaker, longer, and more focused on the past, according to a review by The New York Times. The outlet found that Trump’s speeches now last on average 82 minutes compared to 45 minutes in 2016.
He also uses all-or-nothing terms such as “always” and “never” 13 percent more today than he did eight years ago. Some experts see this as an indication that someone is aging.
He uses 32 percent more
He uses 32 percent more negative words than positive ones currently – in 2016 that figure was 21 percent – another possible sign of changes in cognitive ability. He also uses 69 percent more swear words than during his first campaign.
Frequently during speeches, he reaches back to the 1980s and 1990s and often much further back in time, as he mentions the fictional character Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, suggesting that talk show host Johnny Carson should be brought back despite that he died in 2005.
Trump has also said that “most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is” even as 96 percent of people in the US have a smartphone, The Times notes.
Anthony Scaramucci served as the White House communications director for 10 days during the Trump administration. He’s now backing Harris. He told The Times that “he’s not competing at the level he was competing at eight years ago, no question about it.”
“He’s lost a step. He’s lost an ability to put powerful sentences together,” Scaramucci said, calling him a “very effective communicator” but added that “the word salad buffet on the Trump campaign is being offered at a discount. You can eat all you can eat, but it’s at a discount.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rambling-angry-speeches-raise-145114128.html
The 78-year-old former president has recently suggested there was an audience at his September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris when there was none, and he has indicated that North Korea is attempting to assassinate him when he’s likely to have meant Iran.
He misspeaks and misremembers things to such a degree that it no longer appears to garner much attention.
In September, more than a month after President Joe Biden left the race, Trump was talking as if he was still running against him and not Harris.
Following the departure of Biden, Trump is the oldest nominee of a major party in US history and he would become the oldest president ever if he wins and finishes another term, at the end of which he would be 82 years old.
Over the course of the nine years that Trump has spent on the political scene, his speeches have grown bleaker, longer, and more focused on the past, according to a review by The New York Times. The outlet found that Trump’s speeches now last on average 82 minutes compared to 45 minutes in 2016.
He also uses all-or-nothing terms such as “always” and “never” 13 percent more today than he did eight years ago. Some experts see this as an indication that someone is aging.
He uses 32 percent more
He uses 32 percent more negative words than positive ones currently – in 2016 that figure was 21 percent – another possible sign of changes in cognitive ability. He also uses 69 percent more swear words than during his first campaign.
Frequently during speeches, he reaches back to the 1980s and 1990s and often much further back in time, as he mentions the fictional character Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, suggesting that talk show host Johnny Carson should be brought back despite that he died in 2005.
Trump has also said that “most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is” even as 96 percent of people in the US have a smartphone, The Times notes.
Anthony Scaramucci served as the White House communications director for 10 days during the Trump administration. He’s now backing Harris. He told The Times that “he’s not competing at the level he was competing at eight years ago, no question about it.”
“He’s lost a step. He’s lost an ability to put powerful sentences together,” Scaramucci said, calling him a “very effective communicator” but added that “the word salad buffet on the Trump campaign is being offered at a discount. You can eat all you can eat, but it’s at a discount.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rambling-angry-speeches-raise-145114128.html
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