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LetMyPeopleVote

(153,122 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:19 PM 3 hrs ago

Trump's town hall looked like 'live sundowning' -- don't call it a 'dance party': reporter

TFG was sundowning at this event



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-town-hall-2669402467/

A Boston Globe reporter shamed those who downplayed Donald Trump's decision to stop answering questions from his fans and instead play music and dance.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr suggested the world could be witnessing the "live sundowning" of a presidential candidate.

The term sundowning describes when an older adult begins having different behaviors in the late afternoon or early evening. The Alzheimer's Society said that the person can become " intensely distressed, agitated and have hallucinations or delusion.....

"He is supposed to answer questions," Atkins Stohr said of the town hall. "He is not. He is sort of melted down into this bizarre, inexplicable sort of live sundowning in a way. It continues to show his unfitness. And I think characterizing it as a dance party does a disjustice to it. This is somebody who wants to run the world [and] have the nuclear codes. He clearly did not seem okay."

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Trump's town hall looked like 'live sundowning' -- don't call it a 'dance party': reporter (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 3 hrs ago OP
It was like "Activity Time" at the memory care facility. NameAlreadyTaken 3 hrs ago #1
"This is a neurological smoking gun." LetMyPeopleVote 2 hrs ago #2
Just call it nappy time. nt BootinUp 2 hrs ago #3
Just call it bdamomma 56 min ago #13
DJ Donnie spinning looney tunes. OAITW r.2.0 2 hrs ago #4
The scariest part about it, to me, wasn't his musical trance but that the people in the audience Solly Mack 2 hrs ago #5
From what I've heard and read, most attendees left well before he left the stage. Wiz Imp 59 min ago #12
Good news for Vance/Vantz to 25 Dotard. (25th Amendment) keithbvadu2 2 hrs ago #6
But how do they use the 25th BWdem4life 1 hr ago #8
I agree with her Owens 2 hrs ago #7
And not a bit of rhythm to be found in that venue. Crowman2009 1 hr ago #9
Soulless train. BattleRow 1 hr ago #10
He was waiting for the music to stop, his handlers were waiting for him to stop the music tinrobot 1 hr ago #11
I'd say anyone who can watch video of that and not think there is something seriously wrong with Trump... Wiz Imp 55 min ago #14
Normally... The Madcap 28 min ago #15

LetMyPeopleVote

(153,122 posts)
2. "This is a neurological smoking gun."
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:31 PM
2 hrs ago



Sleepiness and low energy are common symptoms of DEMENTIA. It’s why he takes Adderall

Cognitive Doctor discusses Trump’s Brain Damage

It's not a joke, it's not sarcasm.

"This is a neurological smoking gun."

Solly Mack

(92,118 posts)
5. The scariest part about it, to me, wasn't his musical trance but that the people in the audience
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:42 PM
2 hrs ago

seemed to think it wonderful.

He stands there, swaying, being admired by his followers and they were all too willing in their role as the adoring crowd.

Here he was, contemptuous (or forgetful) of what he was supposed to be doing and opting to remain on stage while his braindead collaborators smiled and played along as if his behavior was the most normal thing in the world.

No room for reality in that bunch.

Wiz Imp

(885 posts)
12. From what I've heard and read, most attendees left well before he left the stage.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:31 PM
59 min ago

I think most people as soon as they realized he wasn't taking any more questions, figured there was no reason to stay and left. Even the news articles say a relatively small number of people stayed the whole time. You can't tell from the video because it only shows the very front of the venue.

Oh, and I just saw a different video which better showed how many chairs they had - it was more than I figured, which means the number of attendees was far less than I figured (I thought almost everyone would be forced to stand the whole time). I'm guessing there weren't more than 2000 people there if even that many.

Owens

(298 posts)
7. I agree with her
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 06:13 PM
2 hrs ago

We had a former senior employee, at the end of the day she would just walk around doing nothing.

tinrobot

(11,411 posts)
11. He was waiting for the music to stop, his handlers were waiting for him to stop the music
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:25 PM
1 hr ago

So the music just... kept... going...

Waiting for him to stop it is a big problem when Trump has no idea where he is or how much time has passed.

Wiz Imp

(885 posts)
14. I'd say anyone who can watch video of that and not think there is something seriously wrong with Trump...
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:35 PM
55 min ago

has serious cognitive issues themselves. That is, they have to deny reality to think that was anything other than an insane display of someone who has significant & blatant mental issues.

The Madcap

(108 posts)
15. Normally...
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 08:02 PM
28 min ago

when one dances, one actually moves one's feet. T**** looked more like a broken-down old rowboat swaying in the surf. No rhythm, no head-bobbing. Just swaying.

Yes, there is definitely something wrong with him. Just keep him from the nuclear football.

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