Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history

MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 1010 points – Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history
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  • At 78 years old, former President Donald Trump is now the oldest nominee running for president.
  • Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, 59.
  • If she becomes the Democratic nominee, Harris' age could be an advantage against Trump.
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He should drop out.

Old sleepy Don. They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.

They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.

And everyone really is saying it, too

Hell, he's probably saying it, too

I have the biggest cognitive decline, just tremendous, all the doctors are saying it, they're saying "sir, your cognitive decline has been faster than I've seen in anyone else." I make no sense at all, it's amazing folks

Careful there. Next thing you know all his cult followers will be running around in straitjackets as a show of support.

Mr. Trump SIR, your cognitive decline has been faster than I've seen in anyone else.

Ha yeah true that's much closer to the real thing. Gonna shamelessly edit that in

Dementia Don is my vote.

As a nickname, yes. For POTUS, hell no.

Oh of course. I just know he does the alliteration thing for insulting others because he's dumb and his base is too. Which unfortunately makes it effective.

So giving ole Diaper Don some alliterative handles is both too easy and fun. There are tons of options and I'm sure Dumbass Don would love to hear them all.

I prefer Drowsy Don but I'm all in on whatever all y'all decide as long as it has alliteration.

I like Diaper Don.

It suggests he's a crybaby. It ties in with sleepiness because babies get sleepy too. It implies the loss of control over his body, which also suggests his mind is also probably going. It makes you wonder if he's walking around with shit in his pants. And, it's hard for them to refute.

Everybody's talking about how they can't even see the tears in his eyes cuz it looks like his eyelids are practically sewn shut

Hell, he probably said it himself during that interminable incoherent ramble he called an acceptance speech. Nobody noticed because everyone's ears had gone numb by then.

He should drop dead.

Beat me to it. Yup - he should drop dead and then rest in piss.

He's already having issues with his speech and he keeps doing these weird tangential rants that don't make any sense.

He has been doing this aince 2016 and it has only gotten worse!

Rants! Tangentia--You know, the Weirdest tangents--I gave another speech last week--not at the RNC--No I said the great Hannibal Lecter couldn't have said it better than me! The best! Hot dogs! Away we go and nobody--you know nobody!--does cognitive like me! Just think about that for a second. Four years! Four more years! The best tangents! The most rambling! Sleepy...

As much as I hate trump. I'd rather have that narcissistic shit of a useful idiot sitting between us and Vance if that fucking fascist ever gets near that seat.

That guy is everything wrong with trump wrapped up in a more emotionally intelligent, sharper, more charismatic, more attractive, and younger package.

He's the exact sort of motherfucker I've been expecting them to push after him to take advantage of the path he created, and its fucking terrifying.

There is no way anyone would be able to convince Trump to drop out. He decided in 2019 that he was entitled to a second term. He's not going to change his mind now.

It's all or bust for trump. White house or jail.

Not sure that’s the case anymore, unfortunately

It may take longer to get him in jail even when he loses but Harris may be able to help get him there after she wins, especially with some serious SCOTUS reform. People need to vote BLUE down the ballot!

I don't think Trump has the stature of someone who's overcome a social disability. That guy oozes neurotypical privilege.

I think Kamala should take Trump up on that cognitive test offer he wanted to take with Biden.

and golf match

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Nah, fuck a golf match. Who gives a shit about golf?

Donald does. And he would not take losing well.

No carts

And it's hosted in Alabama.

And not the Gulf Shores. Central Alabama. Home of 183% humidity.

Hey I'm there and I agree, right here right now would be a hilarious time to see him try to play golf

As your neighbor slightly to the north, you have my deepest sympathies. My aunt had to find temp housing up in Michigan cause it's too hot, even with the AC on blast.

Funnily enough she's staying with this gay couple that rented out their basement to her.

Her KKK husband must be running in his grave, cause they seem to be getting along great!

It doesn't get that unpleasant in Indiana very often, but I live near a golf course and I've seen golfers out in recent weeks both when it was in the 90s but felt like over 110 with the humidity and not a cloud in the sky and also when it was thunderstorming.

Apparently there are some very dedicated, but stupid, golfers out there.

And boxing match

This gave me celebrity deathmatch flashbacks 😂

It's sad they never tried to reboot this, it was such good TV. I assume there's a pretty good reason for it but I would watch the shot out of it.

Not only is he the oldest, but he's also the facist-est cadidate.

And racist-est and misogynist-est and felonious-est and corruptest and...

I'm not sure if we can call him the raciest-est, president, some of them literally owned slaves.

Presidents today are so PC. They can't even own slaves anymore.

Presidents today have never made any gestures toward amending that bit in the 13 amendment that still allows for slavery with extra steps. Even the ones that won a Nobel peace prize.

Father Coughlin is probably kicking himself in hell for never running for president.

Age DOESN'T MATTER!

-Republicans who are NOT in a Cult and complained about Joe Biden's age for the last 6 months!

And that's before all the laws he broke... And trying to undermine the American constitution... And the changing the system so he could be immune.

Let's not forget those things too.

On TOP! Of him being far too old.

I want a president that doesn't have dementia, isn't a racist, is not a rapist, and doesn't have 34 felonies. One that didn't bang a porn star for an obscene amount of campaign fund money while their wife was home pregnant. Bonus points for not shitting their pants and having to wear diapers. (not the look I want representing our great country, some fat smelling like shit orange buffoon.)

Would you like one that respects the democratic result of an election and hands over power to their successor peacefully? One that didn't promise to be dictator from day one this time? Would you like senators that don't write "finish them" on Israeli bombs?

Too old, he's unelectable

He was unelectable in 2016, and yet he scraped through in the electoral college. Admittedly Hillary Clinton beat him for total number of votes, so he was already a bit of a loser then. Oh - remember when he claimed his inauguration was more popular than Obama's and then they showed the photos and his crowd was just tiny by comparison! He's so insecure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2017/03/Untitled-1.jpg

Obama brought hope, he brought hum... hate ?

What I find most mad is that Kamala Harris is nearing retirement age for many industries - yet compared to many in her line of work she seems like she's in her thirties and has a whole new career ahead of her.

Remember back in 2001 when everyone freaked out at Cheney's age? He was 60. Our "young" potential candidate is 59.

We came within 1 year of having the first ever Gen X major party nominee (and immediately after the first ever Silent Generation president). But, she's a yet another boomer by 1 year.

Those generations are completely made up and there is little difference in someone born in 1964 vs 1965.

Sure, but as long as those labels exist, it would still have been nice to be able to apply a new label to the President, instead of using that same old one again.

Here's the fun part, you can apply whatever label you find useful. Go bananas.

Oh no, it seems you didn't get the memo! Commenting on a candidates physical year count and mental decrepitude is now ageist and forbidden. Please be better in the future. - CNN

At least his sentences are coherent /s

It's fucking wild that conservatives listen to Trump and hear an intelligent and coherent person.

He said this in 2016:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

He was still elected.

I love these transcripts, they always sound like a conversation some rambling old man is having with his hospice nurse.

Ok Mr. Trump, very good. Now take your medications.

I wish to point out that he was in his early 70s at the time, generally a bit early for that level of impairment.

generally a bit early for that level of impairment.

Well, assuming the impairment is age-related and not just, you know, built in

True, although if you watch him over the years, especially between 2016 and now, there's been a huge amount of noticeable cognitive decline.

He forgot his own wife's name. He called her Mercedes.

Yeah it's true that while he was never exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, he does seem to have gotten a lot worse fairly quickly. Might be COVID, it's been linked to cognitive decline and I've definitely seen that in my own parents who are no spring chicken

It’s like an LLM is responding to a Markov chain with an LLM-generated Markov chain.

IMO the more amazing thing is that he's since referenced his uncle multiple times as proof that he himself is smart.

Like, aside from all the crazy rambling, he buys into eugenics to such an extent that he thinks his uncle being smart necessarily means that he is also smart. And, he assumes his audience will also believe that intelligence is a hereditary trait like that.

Apparently they do believe it. Either that or they just accept that he does and don't care. But I'd say believing in eugenics is more likely.

No, it's that they hear someone they understand. "He says it like it is," is white people speak for "his words aren't confusing me." Bc really all Don ever does is tell a story like a trailer park kid. It speaks to their biases and emotions and that's all they care about

I doubt most of them listen to him at all. They listen to Fox or Newsmax or whatever social media, who only cherrypick the fragments that sound vaguely coherent, and conversely only played the pieces of Biden's speeches that were incoherent. They either don't realize or don't care that they're not looking at the whole picture.

Honestly I think it's just that they don't care: Trump is the Führer and everything he does is perfect

I actually laughed the first time I heard a Trump fan claim Biden was incoherent. I honestly thought they were kidding.

Nope, dead serious. "Have you ever heard Trump talk?" Silence.

Gettysburg… wow

Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was, the battle at Gettysburg, what an unbelievable. I mean, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I felt a blood vessel pop in my brain just trying to read that.

I just walked my dog past a big red pickup truck with stickers that had a picture of Biden with "I just shit my pants" and "BLM: Biden Loves Minors" (so classy) and it really struck me how extremely Biden focused the Republican memes have been.

Like we used to have "Pelosi is secretly running things" or like even Mitt Romney was running against Obama but his attacks were about Democrats as a whole, they were tax and spend liberals building the nanny state.

The flip side to Trump's immature style is that it IS extremely specific, and like you can't just go "actually it's Meatball Nikki Haley." Obviously you can invent different immature nicknames and memes but it is hard to telegraph them with the convention out of the way.

I just saw a headline that Trump appears to be upset because he's spent so much time and money fighting Biden, and none fighting Harris or other potential candidates.

I laughed.

Yeah he actually "Truthed" (lol) that he thinks the Dems owe him compensation for Joe dropping out due to all the money his campaign has spent attacking Joe. What a cunt

I think he's aged beyond coming up with his own nicknames.

The Trump writing team is probably working around the clock to come up with names that are racist enough for the cult to enjoy, without being racist enough to censor on TV.

It boggles my mind. If you tallied up all the cars that have Biden’s name or picture on them, I bet they’d be overwhelmingly owned by MAGA folks. Why???

I honestly can't think of anytime I've ever seen a car with a pro-Biden bumper sticker on it. I've even seen a few for Clinton when she ran but never Biden.

PASS THE TORCH He's done it many times, at the KKK rallies in the woods that he's probably attended.

My ultimate hope is that Trump decoheres to the point of never having a future chance of winning but keeps running anyways, ultimately blocking the party as a whole. Karmic punishment for raising this guy to a seat of power in the first place.

Can him. Ban him. Afghanistan him. Kick him to the curb and pop the zit he is.

No, Biden was the nominee, just because he resigned doesn't mean he never was

He actually was never nominated. He was a presumptive nominee.

Right, and he didn't resign from anything, he dropped out of the race / he chose not to seek or accept the nomination.