Trump Outrage Watch: Incontinent Incoherence Edition

By Mort Kondracke

here are now so many examples of Donald Trump’s apparent cognitive impairment that the issue can’t be avoided.

His rambling, often-incoherent speech to leaders of the McDonald’s restaurant firm on Nov. 17 is a vivid example, but far from the only one.

He was speaking about economics (claiming that the US was experiencing a “golden age” of falling prices, which 62% of voters reject), but suddenly shifted to a complaint about shower pressures: “[The Biden administration] had restrictions on water. It comes down from heaven, right? So you want to wash your hands. Or, like me, you want to wash your hair. I lather up and there’s no water. I won’t mention the third item in the bathroom because I always get criticized. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you shouldn’t own a McDonald’s franchise.”

There were other non-sequitur riffs about renaming the Gulf of Mexico because, he said, the US has more gulf coastline than Mexico (actually, Mexico has about 100 miles more). He’s also repeatedly mixed up the names of people he ought to know: Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, Viktor Orban as the leader of Turkey, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Tim Cook as “Tim Apple.”

https://www.postalley.org/2025/11/24/trump-outrage-watch-incontinent-incoherence-edition/