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Trump's dementia will be on full display tonight, and the MSM (Original Post) edhopper 10 hrs ago OP
100% dalton99a 10 hrs ago #1
Headline: NCDem47 10 hrs ago #2
There is a betting line on those and more. BidenRocks 16 min ago #57
I'd like to say you're wrong. FoxNewsSucks 10 hrs ago #3
No doubt on this. OLDMDDEM 9 hrs ago #4
Good that it will be a "long" speech according to Trump Jersey Devil 9 hrs ago #5
You can bet popsdenver 8 hrs ago #36
Meanwhile the republicans and the other Magas slightlv 2 hrs ago #55
And more opportunities for his teleprompter Grammy23 1 hr ago #56
I hope his speech goes big and beautiful. chouchou 9 hrs ago #6
Nice try - but not enough capitialzations and mispellings. Conjuay 8 hrs ago #25
Hah, he never speaks in full complete sentences FakeNoose 8 hrs ago #33
Oh, he's gotten wose. A lot worse. ShazzieB 7 hrs ago #45
and he even outdoes Bush popsdenver 2 hrs ago #54
What else does he have to talk about it that is going good in this country? debm55 9 hrs ago #7
Everything will be great in two weeks. Harker 8 hrs ago #22
I knew a building contractor who did that. calimary 7 hrs ago #46
no...they won't ignore it... agingdem 9 hrs ago #8
Will Jake Tapper write a new book? Or not? Ocelot II 9 hrs ago #9
No MustLoveBeagles 8 hrs ago #27
His drug cocktail will make him appear normal leftstreet 9 hrs ago #10
Probably, but I'll bet getting the mix right for him is getting trickier & trickier & the results less predictable. CrispyQ 9 hrs ago #13
Well THAT would be cool leftstreet 9 hrs ago #14
I bet the drug cocktail to get him to semi-normal Farmer-Rick 8 hrs ago #19
The reason he's been saying it will be "very long". llmart 9 hrs ago #18
Normal for him Johonny 8 hrs ago #30
What are they using on him, though, that produces even a temporary impression Ocelot II 7 hrs ago #43
That's why part of it is "acting" leftstreet 7 hrs ago #44
Some of his bad behavior in the past was for attention, although I think most of it was just cuz he's a prick, but now? CrispyQ 7 hrs ago #48
I don't think he will do that edhopper 6 hrs ago #49
Well they Rebl2 9 hrs ago #11
Count on the TV media to repackage all his lies and try and make them make sense and regurgitate them Walleye 9 hrs ago #12
Sanewashing has become an art with the corporate media. Dr. T 8 hrs ago #35
He'll just sway to shitty music for 45 minutes Blue Owl 9 hrs ago #15
Yep! Jrsygrl96 9 hrs ago #16
I'm not sure Lawrence O'Donnell will ignore it Grim Chieftain 9 hrs ago #17
Lawrence is a notable exception MustLoveBeagles 8 hrs ago #28
Agreed -- however --- AverageOldGuy 8 hrs ago #20
Maybe "millions" will tune in, MLWR 8 hrs ago #29
I can only imagine popsdenver 2 hrs ago #53
I won't be watching. Want him to get the lowest ratings ever for a SOTU. ChicagoTeamster 8 hrs ago #21
I'll be watching one of the alternative SOTU events. YodaMom2 8 hrs ago #23
If Trump began screaming and throwing things at the seated SC justices, corporate media would call it a "rebuke," sop 8 hrs ago #24
Ihope there are "reaction" shots: looks on audience faces when he LIES! CTyankee 8 hrs ago #26
He'll read a script someone else wrote off of a teleprompter. Demobrat 8 hrs ago #31
The crises are mounting bucolic_frolic 8 hrs ago #32
Maybe Joe Biden Dave Id 8 hrs ago #34
It's supposed to be a long speech so he's basically filibustering underpants 8 hrs ago #37
But they won't be able to hide it. Expect lots of clips. Joinfortmill 8 hrs ago #38
His staffers will not be at his side to shoo everyone out of the House chamber when he starts decompensating. NT mahatmakanejeeves 8 hrs ago #39
MS NOW will rip him to shreds. Rachel and Lawrence will be on the panel. OGBuzz 8 hrs ago #40
Yes they will, but it will be saved on the streaming and social media sites. I don't ever listen to his actual speeches LiberalArkie 8 hrs ago #41
Disagree. He'll read the teleprompter after nice big snorts of Go-Go Powder Special SOTU formula. betsuni 8 hrs ago #42
Yes. Exactly. All he has to do is read the words in front of him Demobrat 5 hrs ago #50
What is Krasnov worried about??? ultralite001 7 hrs ago #47
I wonder... Omnipresent 5 hrs ago #51
Jake Tapper should be in the front row lame54 4 hrs ago #52
You already know. MaeScott 14 min ago #58

NCDem47

(3,393 posts)
2. Headline:
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 10:23 AM
10 hrs ago

“Trump speaks to the nation”

His “speaking”:

Lies
Half truths
Delusion
Gaslighting
Rancor
Incoherence
Venom
Nastiness

And he’ll go on, and on, and on. Perhaps a record in terms on length. No joke. It will be a loooooong night.

BidenRocks

(3,047 posts)
57. There is a betting line on those and more.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 08:13 PM
16 min ago

Someone should stick a mic near his ass!

It may be scatological humor, but he is 'full of shit'!

Jersey Devil

(10,810 posts)
5. Good that it will be a "long" speech according to Trump
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 10:31 AM
9 hrs ago

The longer the speech is the more opportunities for him to ramble on with incoherent statements, lies, baseless attacks and just generally look like a fool.

popsdenver

(2,051 posts)
36. You can bet
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:04 PM
8 hrs ago

his supplier delivered twice the normal amount of Adderall, in preparation for his SOU mindless blabbering........

He often reminds me of James Joyce? "stream of consciousness" rambling in his book Ulysses??????

slightlv

(7,634 posts)
55. Meanwhile the republicans and the other Magas
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 06:13 PM
2 hrs ago

will trumpet him to the stars and above as the bestest president of all time! argh!

Grammy23

(6,106 posts)
56. And more opportunities for his teleprompter
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 06:44 PM
1 hr ago

To glitch out, leaving him to rely on his glitchy brain for what to say or do next. No problemo. He’ll just improvise. Oh, boy, now it’s starting to get interesting. LOL. Bring out the popcorn.

chouchou

(3,024 posts)
6. I hope his speech goes big and beautiful.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 10:32 AM
9 hrs ago

i'm going to you want to keep making mash potatoes with 3/4 tank of light headed violence? Free yourself and submit to the airplane spiders in your feet before we’re all doing taxes with Taxi's with our grandparents. Slugs might be wetter than sheep but at least they know how to run. Our planes will fly into the civil war ships.

FakeNoose

(41,055 posts)
33. Hah, he never speaks in full complete sentences
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:57 AM
8 hrs ago

That's the first tip-off....

He literally cannot complete one thought without flying off to 5 or 6 others. I don't believe it's a sign of dementia because he's been doing it his whole life. That's why the news media always edits him down to sound bytes, because Chump's unedited speech pattern is nothing but word salads.

ShazzieB

(22,427 posts)
45. Oh, he's gotten wose. A lot worse.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:00 PM
7 hrs ago

He doesn't just ramble these days.His mind wanders all over the place, and he can't stay on track to save his life. The word salad has become word confetti.

Experts who have studied his speech ppatterns and compared recordings of him speaking now and at various times in the past have commented on how his speech and thought processes have deteriorated and are continuing to go downhill as we speak. The decline has been gradual, because that's bow dementia works.

Check out this post I made the other day for one expert's opinion: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1322107326

If he manages to follow the teleprompter and stick to what's on there, he may manage to sound reasonably coherent, but don't let that fool you.

Harker

(17,648 posts)
22. Everything will be great in two weeks.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:37 AM
8 hrs ago

Two weeks! In two weeks! It's always in two weeks... it's only two weeks away!

calimary

(89,511 posts)
46. I knew a building contractor who did that.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:17 PM
7 hrs ago

“Oh that’s gonna take two weeks.”

They extend the job that way, so YOU have to keep paying for - yeah. Another two weeks.

agingdem

(8,820 posts)
8. no...they won't ignore it...
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 10:33 AM
9 hrs ago

they'll whitewash his putrid vomitus phlegm..the lies, the nonsensical blather, the insults, the threats, the incoherence, the self praise....the MSM will dismiss Trump's verbal dreck as "Trump being Trump"...

and you can bet one of the Fox brainless twits will say " tonight Trump became the president"...

leftstreet

(39,820 posts)
10. His drug cocktail will make him appear normal
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 10:43 AM
9 hrs ago

We've gone through this before. Weekly evidence of Trump losing it. The anticipation of a national meltdown. Slurring, wandering from the podium, look at his hand.... !!!

Then he pulls it off and seems just fine. He's either acting or drugged

CrispyQ

(40,866 posts)
13. Probably, but I'll bet getting the mix right for him is getting trickier & trickier & the results less predictable.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:07 AM
9 hrs ago

He's a mess. It will mostly be a whine fest—a litany of grievances perpetrated against him since...well, forever. From his ramblings that I read yesterday, he wants to take credit for all 250 years of American progress. Apparently we were a failed state until he came along.

Hopefully he will stroke out on live TV.

Farmer-Rick

(12,572 posts)
19. I bet the drug cocktail to get him to semi-normal
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:32 AM
8 hrs ago

Has some seriously dangerous meds in it that put a strain on his heart and brain.

So, maybe that's why he had a stroke that makes his right side droop. Each time they pump him up with performance enhancement drugs, he gets a little closer to death.

llmart

(17,491 posts)
18. The reason he's been saying it will be "very long".
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:27 AM
9 hrs ago

He knows he'll be hopped up on some of the best drugs/uppers available otherwise he'd nod off while leaning over the podium.

Ocelot II

(129,987 posts)
43. What are they using on him, though, that produces even a temporary impression
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:31 PM
7 hrs ago

that he's not completely batshit crazy? But he never seems "just fine." Sometimes he just seems a little less barking mad than usual.

leftstreet

(39,820 posts)
44. That's why part of it is "acting"
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:45 PM
7 hrs ago

I think, anyway.

Narcissists are famous for it. Drawing attention to themselves by acting weird, mispronouncing words, stumbling movements, dozing, etc. ANYTHING that gets them attention and/or gives them the option later to not be accountable.

If he has agency in this facade, he wouldn't need a lot of drugs other stimulants or something



CrispyQ

(40,866 posts)
48. Some of his bad behavior in the past was for attention, although I think most of it was just cuz he's a prick, but now?
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:27 PM
7 hrs ago

I don't think so. No way he'd doze off after calling Biden sleepy Joe for four years. And a belligerent he-man type of guy doesn't want people seeing him stumble & have difficulty with simple movements. He's deteriorating & trying to hide it. I read he leaned heavily on Melania at the gov's meeting. If she's going to a gov's meeting, you know she's in on the coverup. She's probably just a little less anxious for him to die than the rest of us.

edhopper

(37,239 posts)
49. I don't think he will do that
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:46 PM
6 hrs ago

I just think his speech will meander all over, with false claims, contradictions and obvious lies.

Walleye

(44,312 posts)
12. Count on the TV media to repackage all his lies and try and make them make sense and regurgitate them
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:04 AM
9 hrs ago

Blue Owl

(58,773 posts)
15. He'll just sway to shitty music for 45 minutes
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:15 AM
9 hrs ago

And the M$M toilet lickers will say it’s the greatest SOTU speech they’ve ever witnessed

Grim Chieftain

(1,524 posts)
17. I'm not sure Lawrence O'Donnell will ignore it
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:26 AM
9 hrs ago

He's been pretty hard hitting and fearless when it comes to calling Trump out.

AverageOldGuy

(3,643 posts)
20. Agreed -- however ---
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:33 AM
8 hrs ago

He is going to be on national TV. Don't have any idea of the audience size but there likely will be millions watching some or all.

"The media" -- including those who are slavishly devoted to Trump -- will be watching.

I really believe, especially if he drones on and on, gets off script, repeats his usual easily-disproven lies - - - there's a chance albeit a small chance that heretofore fence-sitting commentators and public will decide "This drooling old fool is off his rocker . . . WTF can we do to get rid of him??" There's a slim chance the dam will break tonight.


As an aside: Don't put it past him to order bombing of Iran just before the speech and announce that we started and won the war in 15 minutes.

MLWR

(947 posts)
29. Maybe "millions" will tune in,
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:45 AM
8 hrs ago

but when he gets to his "great accomplishments," "the eight wars he stopped," and his litany of grudges and grievances, my guess is that many will leave, having heard it all innumerable times before. He has been repeating the same BS-speech for some ten years now, lest we forget.

popsdenver

(2,051 posts)
53. I can only imagine
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 05:59 PM
2 hrs ago

since he was upset about his original bombing not having destroyed anywhere near the stuff he claimed, that he will be going all out.........trying to bomb them back into the stone age....

The real winners will be...... Putin/Netanyahu/Saudis.........all on the U.S. Taxpayer's Tab...............

ChicagoTeamster

(694 posts)
21. I won't be watching. Want him to get the lowest ratings ever for a SOTU.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:33 AM
8 hrs ago

I can watch excerpts later on youtube if there's anything worth seeing.

YodaMom2

(175 posts)
23. I'll be watching one of the alternative SOTU events.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:38 AM
8 hrs ago

Probably the one hosted by Joy Reid and Katie Phang. And then I’ll watch the MS NOW afterparty with Rachel and crew.

sop

(18,168 posts)
24. If Trump began screaming and throwing things at the seated SC justices, corporate media would call it a "rebuke,"
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:38 AM
8 hrs ago

then compare it to the time Obama told justices Citizens United was a misguided decision.

CTyankee

(68,014 posts)
26. Ihope there are "reaction" shots: looks on audience faces when he LIES!
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:40 AM
8 hrs ago

I'm hoping for voices yelling "YOU LIE!" every time he lies. It will be a cacophony of yells since he will LIE every time he opens his mouth.

Demobrat

(10,275 posts)
31. He'll read a script someone else wrote off of a teleprompter.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:49 AM
8 hrs ago

That and the correct drug cocktail will get him through.

bucolic_frolic

(54,742 posts)
32. The crises are mounting
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:57 AM
8 hrs ago

Tariffs, wars, oppression, chest-beating and sabre-rattling. Financial market and the world community can only take so much more. It may be his only remaining choice is total chaos. Steal the crypto and run.

Dave Id

(264 posts)
34. Maybe Joe Biden
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:57 AM
8 hrs ago

'will sabotage' Trump's TelePrompter and leave Trump rambling on incoherently worse than ever.

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,011 posts)
39. His staffers will not be at his side to shoo everyone out of the House chamber when he starts decompensating. NT
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:10 PM
8 hrs ago

OGBuzz

(155 posts)
40. MS NOW will rip him to shreds. Rachel and Lawrence will be on the panel.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:11 PM
8 hrs ago

The rest of the media will hang on to every word, interpret the gibberish, and marvel at his pure genius. Peter Thiel's c*ck holster and the phoney christian sitting behind him will give a visual exhibition of worship, obedience and pure devotion.

LiberalArkie

(19,585 posts)
41. Yes they will, but it will be saved on the streaming and social media sites. I don't ever listen to his actual speeches
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:14 PM
8 hrs ago

because they never make any sense at all and the listeners brain will try and make sense of it to the person. Like how when a person looks at scrambled words and be able to decern a message. That is how he has gotten by, people hear what they want to hear.

betsuni

(28,936 posts)
42. Disagree. He'll read the teleprompter after nice big snorts of Go-Go Powder Special SOTU formula.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:16 PM
8 hrs ago

They'll promise to let him have all the ice cream he wants later if he's a good boy. The way the pundits are talking it sounds like word has gone out that he has to be a good boy and behave himself.

Demobrat

(10,275 posts)
50. Yes. Exactly. All he has to do is read the words in front of him
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 02:54 PM
5 hrs ago

and not go off script.

ultralite001

(2,466 posts)
47. What is Krasnov worried about???
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:24 PM
7 hrs ago

or should the title read, "Who is Krasnov worried about???

So much security fencing + so little security...

Omnipresent

(7,373 posts)
51. I wonder...
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 03:07 PM
5 hrs ago

How many conversations he’s had with people he’s confided with, who told him, “You know it’s really not healthy to believe, think, write, or speak about things the way you do” and “Donald, you really need help!”.

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