'He has dementia': Internet erupts after Trump suggests he looks like Elvis

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'He has dementia': Internet erupts after Trump suggests he looks like Elvis
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I agree. He looks like a man who took too many drugs, ate too much junk, and then died on his bathroom floor mid-shit.

That first one looks like he runs Argentina.

... Have we seen them in the same room?

Maybe he gave up on winning in 24 and decided he'd fuck up another country instead. Why do you think Argentinas economy is tanking?

The parent comment and this one were a 1-2 punch for me this morning, just glad i wasn't mid-sip when i saw/read that lol

It's so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity or ability to form and communicate coherent thoughts...I would say there's a trail of breadcrumbs of much more damning statements going back as far as you're willing to look, but it's more like a trail of roach-infested bakeries.

It’s so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity

Where are you getting this from?

From this, but maybe I'm inferring wrongly by connecting the "comments were negative" with the headline?

The former president said earlier in the day that people throughout his life have compared his looks to those of the King of Rock and Roll. Even on Truth Social, the ex-president's own social media network, the comments were negative in some instances.

Oh I see. I guess I figured these were plenty of non supporters on truth social. Even if just these to troll. So I didn't read that as supporters attacking him for it.

Biden is on Truth Social. And, at least at one point, he had more followers on it than Trump.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/18/biden-truth-social-followers-trump

And yes, Biden uses it to troll Trump.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-campaign-ridicules-donald-trump-truth-social-1866030

So, basically, interpreting that comment as saying supporters are attacking him for this doesn't hold water.

I mean it may be true. That person who asked where Ivanka is and why she isn't doing anything about it sounds like a Trump supporter.

How so? I don't see it.

“OMFG [Ivanka Trump where the hell are you?!?!?!? Politics aside do something FFS,” the user, Jil, wrote.

Does that really sound like someone who isn't planning to vote for Trump?

No, not at all. "Politics aside" is used when you disagree with someone on politics.

So you think a Biden voter would want Ivanka to step in to make Trump a better candidate?

Why would she want that?

So you think a Biden voter would want Ivanka to step in to make Trump a better candidate?

No, I think it's just an insult.

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The Trump fans mostly follow Trump’s personal account which is automatically added to your follow list when you sign up there, they don’t have much reason to seek out the Team Trump campaign account. Biden’s audience is tiny on that platform compared to Trump’s audience.

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When the road is made of breadcrumbs, you can't really make them out anymore

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"OMFG [Ivanka Trump where the hell are you?!?!?!? Politics aside do something FFS," the user, Jil, wrote.

Sounds like she is doing something. She's avoiding her father's clusterfuck now that she and her husband got their multi-billion dollar Saudi deal and don't need him.

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No fucking shit he's demented. Seriously, this is the first time we are seeing this in a headline? And it's from rawstory, and it's in quotes?!

Goddamn, corporate news media - do your fucking goddamned jobs and call it like it is - YES he's got dementia. He's also a rapist and a convicted fraud if you want to really get down with the trüfax instead of the weak ass bullshit you normally run to goose this pathetic horserace as per your republiQan owners' instructions.

Oh yeah and he orchestrated a failed coup to stay in power that got some people killed. Dunno if you knew that or not based on how you talk about him and what he does. I'd be happy to direct you to ALL THE GODDAMNED PROOF if you need, just hit me up there. Corporate news media. You utter shitbags. This entire trump fiasco - all of it - is absolutely your fault. You can't be destroyed fast enough.

You forgot that he is also responsible for at least part of the 1 million Covid related deaths in the USA. His unscientific bullshit had a huge impact on people who believed that Covid is nothing more than a common cold.

He's also a spy.

They don't care if anyone is informed, they just care that today's headlines get your attention so you hit a couple of ads.

If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn't, that will be weird.

It is entirely within expectations of the fucked up timeline we've found ourselves in, though.

Call for treason and insurrection? Uproarious Cheering.

Fuck children? Endless defense and excuses (and cheering)

Wants to fuck his own daughter? "Well hell yeah, I'd fuck my daughter too if she looked like Ivanka!" - Disturbing number of republicans when looking at a pre-teen picture of her.

But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

Politics works under WWE rules now. Trump is the heel they like. As long he's doing fucked up shit to the face characters, they keep on cheering.

Him trying to be a face character is bad because people only like him for being the heel.

But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

Is there any evidence that anyone who cheered for him in the above is in that boat? I'm pretty sure it's a subset of the people upset about the treason, sexual assault, seemingly incestuous desires. Because speaking as someone who finds Trump utterly despicable, I fail to see why in the world I should care that he is vain enough to declare himself like Elvis. That's utterly harmless narcissism on normal scales, let alone grading on the Trump curve.

Dude might lose his presidential run because he pissed of Taylor Swift fans. This time line is nothing but weird.

Not really. His followers revere him because they believe his is so strong. Pretty much the only strategy that can work against him is to make them believe he is failing or is becoming a joke. When they become embarrassed about him.

The man is a narcissist, and constantly compares himself to other, much more successful people. He will hint at it if the person is controversial or outright state it if benign.

He'd like to be seen as intelligent as an MIT professor, as honest as Lincoln, as famous as the Mona Lisa, as dangerous as Al Capone, as persecuted as Mandela.

He'd none of these things, but he wants to plant that association in your head. It's transparent and a consistent core of his disorder.

If you want to destroy him, double-down on these delusions.

Why stop at Elvis? Get him talking about his theory on aliens, ask him to compare himself to Jesus and whether he'd do a better job of spreading Christianity than the big man himself, get him to discuss how to split Gaza to make everyone happy, ask how a successful coup of the whitehouse would look like, maybe even ask if Rosa Parks was being reasonable by not getting up out of her seat.

You don't destroy people like this by pointing out how stupid they are, because those die-hard followers will still worship him if he answers all the above. Where he'll be destroyed is in having those on the fence go from "he's a bit crazy, but he'll do something, so I'll vote for him" to "he's fucking nuts, he'll do something crazy, so I'll vote for Biden".

It wouldn't destroy him, though. His cult members are olympic caliber mental gymnasts.

OP is correct in that this approach would get more votes for Biden, but not for the reasons they think. You're not going to convert the cult members. They're long gone. Also remember that Biden got elected not because he was amazing, but because we endured 4 years of Trump and didn't want more.

What you will get, though, are people waking up after 4 years of not Trump, 4 years separation from his shit show of a presidency, realizing, "oh shit, yeah, now I remember that Trump is terrible, I need to make sure he doesn't get elected."

Have you seen his, ahem, retruth of the video 'and God created Trump' video? He's literally comparing himself to Jesus. And his followers went wild!

When he died on the toilet shitting himself

No, he looks like Elvis today after 56 years of decay.

Apparently he smells worse.

Don't think Trump's chronically constipated. If anything, quite likely the opposite.

IDK Elvis was an overweight sweaty creepy fuck, so...?

I was gonna say, I can see a mild resemblance to the Elvis before he died, but even then Trump is a lifelong 4 or 5 and fat Elvis was still an 8.

Sheeeyit, even dead Elvis ranks above a peak Trump, and both were fucking wastes of meat.

Or Elvis after he died.

So Trump is zombie Elvis with a fake tan and a comically bad comb-over...

Still nowhere near as crazy as many of the Qanon consist theories over heard

This is one of those stories that I have to apply the filter of: STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.

He says this shit on purpose to get a rise out of stupid people that hate him. It keeps him in the news in areas he would normally drop to the wayside. Say what you will about his mental acuity or emotional intelligence, the man knows how to stay in the spotlight.

I can't think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don't look.

Idk, the dude has been showing signs of advancing dementia for a few years now.

I think we're at most a few months from him sundowning on live TV. If his heart lasts that long, that is.

I'll generally agree, but at least based on this article, I wouldn't say "I think I look like Elvis" to be a matter of diminishing mental capacity, it's just unjustified narcissism.

There's so much other things to illustrate mental capacity issues that I feel like we shouldn't feel compelled to rope this into that neighborhood. That just serves to discredit the criticism.

STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.

BUT HE'S THE FRONTRUNNER FOR THE PRESIDENCY

Its not like Trump just goes away if you stop paying attention to him.

I can’t think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don’t look.

That worked as a punchline to anthropomorphic ad monsters doing spoofs and goofs in a cartoon. It isn't advice that's neatly transferable to chief executives in positions of immense power and privilege. I can't ignore Donald Trump any more than I can ignore Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, because I am constantly surrounded by the consequences of their decisions.

And this one is... so utterly pointless...

So he says he looks like Elvis, big deal. He's full of himself so it should be no surprise that he has an unrealistically optimistic self-image. As far as things goes, this is so utterly harmless.

So ok, have a chuckle that he is way off base, but trying to use this as evidence of "dementia"? There's so much better to go on and this silliness doesn't even rate on the scale. I could easily imagine a 30 year old Trump saying the same delusional thing but without thinking "diminished mental faculties".

When there's media hysterics about something as benign as this, it lends credence to the voice of critics that the media is just crazily, irrationally going after Trump. Meanwhile, there's an endless flow of really damning stuff to fixate on without having to 'stretch' to discuss something like this.

Like with Obama, at least I understood why the conservatives had to go nuts about a tan suit or a fist bump, Obama just didn't provide much fodder for them to work with. Resorting to about the equivalent with Trump seems completely needless.

Can we dig up Elvis and do a side by side comparison? He's probably right, but I don't suppose fat Elvis is fat anymore.

Elvis didn't die he just went home

Yeah went home to shit, where he died.

No he went into a home after swapping places with an Elvis impersonator.

As explained in that excellent documentary "Bubba Ho-Tep"

"Even a big bitch cockroach like you should know... never, but NEVER, fuck with the King."

The mistake here is thinking that his supporters will care, if they even hear about it.

They won't.

As long as he is hurting the right people, they will excuse anything.

With each passing day we march further and further into “no reasonable, rational person would vote for that man” territory.

How fucking brain damaged is this country?

Unfortunately the Republican strategy for a while has been voting with courts in mind. When the only thing you care about is appointing judges, the game becomes "our team at all costs"

It's a winning play in a first-past-the-post voting system. I don't see it changing without voting reform.

Literally any Republican would shove conservative justices in the court, so that doesn't explain the fixation on Trump at all.

Meanwhile, the left believes pragmatism is a dirty word for some reason.

I mean, what do you expect from a country that demonizes education and treats the news as if its entertainment.

It'll be a great day when he looks like Elvis considering that Elvis looks like a corpse.

I will never forgive conservatives for making this guy the daily topic of conversation.

I think those that didn't properly vet him for everyone else hold a lot of blame, too. So many people in the media knew exactly how awful he was, at least as far back as the 80s. And they even gave him a game show for a while.

That game show did a lot of damage to this country, that's for sure.

But let's be fair, if it wasn't going to be tiny d, the cons would have pushed up a Palin or a Boebert or a Marge (or, more likely, a male version) and thanks to our bullshit way of voting in Presidents, might have succeeded instead of it being tiny d. Because having Obama as President drove them absolutely nuts.

We (anyone not alt-right) are to blame too. We click and watch and view stuff with the rest of them...

nothing will stop the simpleminded to vote for hate. unless the orange is locked away murica is doomed to become idiocracy as a livestream.

Even if he's locked up, they'll vote for him. The only real way they won't vote for him is if they can't find his name on the ballot.

Lol. Even if he was a 1 for 1 exact copy of Elvis, only the irrelevant would give a shit. I look forward to the day when I'm old and for some fucked up reason the names ”Elvis” and "Trump" come up and people ask me who they were and whether due to dementia or just old age I can smile a fat grin and simply say, "I don't remember."

On the other hand, schoolkids in the future could one day be taught that a former president said he looked like Elvis while he was campaigning. Next to a picture of both him and Elvis. And then they will say, "what the fuck was wrong with people in 2024?!"

There are some women that think his bank account is as big as he claims and the behavior of golddiggers like that may lead to his delusion.

Anyone want to point out that the emperor has no clothes? No... Fine he thinks he looks like Elvis, that don't impress me much

Funny that all anti-Trumpers can’t tell he’s trolling. Brilliant PR stunt.