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LetMyPeopleVote

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Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:19 PM Oct 15

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

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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It was like "Activity Time" at the memory care facility. NameAlreadyTaken Oct 15 #1
"This is a neurological smoking gun." LetMyPeopleVote Oct 15 #2
Just call it nappy time. nt BootinUp Oct 15 #3
Just call it bdamomma Oct 15 #13
DJ Donnie spinning looney tunes. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 15 #4
The scariest part about it, to me, wasn't his musical trance but that the people in the audience Solly Mack Oct 15 #5
From what I've heard and read, most attendees left well before he left the stage. Wiz Imp Oct 15 #12
The fewer the better. Thanks. Solly Mack Oct 15 #16
I'm sure some people who were there and stayed for it all thought it was the greatest thing ever. Wiz Imp Oct 15 #17
To me, the folks behind Trump looked confused about what to do Deminpenn Oct 16 #19
Good news for Vance/Vantz to 25 Dotard. (25th Amendment) keithbvadu2 Oct 15 #6
But how do they use the 25th BWdem4life Oct 15 #8
I agree with her Owens Oct 15 #7
And not a bit of rhythm to be found in that venue. Crowman2009 Oct 15 #9
Soulless train. BattleRow Oct 15 #10
He was waiting for the music to stop, his handlers were waiting for him to stop the music tinrobot Oct 15 #11
Well didn't the Village People infamously say that we couldn't stop the music? Crowman2009 Oct 15 #18
I'd say anyone who can watch video of that and not think there is something seriously wrong with Trump... Wiz Imp Oct 15 #14
Normally... The Madcap Oct 15 #15
'Unstable and unhinged': Harris slams Trump at rally, uses his own words against him.... riversedge Oct 16 #20
TFG is sundowning before our very eyes. LetMyPeopleVote Oct 16 #21
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