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LetMyPeopleVote

(184,598 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 06:29 PM 21 hrs ago

Eyes widen as 'wandering' Trump guided by Turkish president: 'If this was Biden'

trump gets lost easily and cannot walk in a straight line. trump had to be led from the plane to the waiting car by the president of Turkey. trump is NOT well

Eyes widen as 'wandering' Trump guided by Turkish president: 'If this was Biden'

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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! (@sweetwitch2697.bsky.social) 2026-07-07T15:46:44.146Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-erdogan-2677167468/

Video circulating online showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clutching President Donald Trump's arm to guide him during their Tuesday meeting in Ankara is drawing mockery and reviving questions about who is steering whom.

The clip, flagged by independent journalist Aaron Rupar, showed Erdogan clutching "a wandering Trump's arm to guide him around" as the two leaders moved across the tarmac at the NATO summit hosted by Turkey.

The footage landed with particular sting given what Trump had just said about his host. Sitting beside Erdogan, Trump lavished praise on the Turkish leader as a paragon of strength, telling reporters that "sometimes you get along with the toughest people like him, and sometimes you don't get along with the weakest, most pathetic people.".....

"Trump’s dementia is out of control," X user Mykhaïlo Golub wrote to his 56,000 followers.

"Today in 'if this was Biden,'" wrote fellow X user shayne571.

The optics fed directly into a debate that has shadowed Trump's second term. In April, 36 physicians from Harvard, Tufts, Columbia and George Washington University filed a statement into the Congressional Record warning of the 80-year-old president's "rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline" and calling him "mentally unfit" to serve.

An April Economist/YouGov poll found 48 percent of Americans believe Trump is suffering modest or significant cognitive decline.



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Eyes widen as 'wandering' Trump guided by Turkish president: 'If this was Biden' (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 21 hrs ago OP
Here's Russian News covering how the Turkish president had to guide Donald Trump around like a dementia patient. LetMyPeopleVote 21 hrs ago #1
Obviously the dude is highly unwell but this isn't that great a piece of evidence thereof AZJonnie 21 hrs ago #2

LetMyPeopleVote

(184,598 posts)
1. Here's Russian News covering how the Turkish president had to guide Donald Trump around like a dementia patient.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 06:31 PM
21 hrs ago

Putin and Russia are mocking trump


AZJonnie

(4,270 posts)
2. Obviously the dude is highly unwell but this isn't that great a piece of evidence thereof
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 07:03 PM
21 hrs ago

There's a long row of armed soldiers in formation, some in their dress uniforms, that he turns to look at briefly, and it's Erdogan's decision to quickly reach out and grab his arm and lead him to the microphone. It'd be different if he stopped and turned to stare into an empty runway, or started talking to people that weren't there, or stood there frozen for 30 seconds or something, ala The Turtle. Without the arbitrary Erdogan arm-grab/leading, this is nothing, basically

OTOH, the great part of this sequence for me is thinking about how utterly pissed at Erdogan IQ47 is going to be, once he sees all the negative media attention that directly resulted from him grabbing his arm and seeming to guide him.

Given what a petty, egotistical little prick Mango Mussolini is, I wouldn't be surprised if he decides he doesn't like the Turkish president anymore over that arm grab

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