Nobody knows what Trump is talking about anymore and no one seems to care [View all]

During President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s sending the National Guard to Washington, DC, to fight a crime wave that isn’t real, it became clear he has caught Sleepy Joe Biden’s much-ballyhooed cognitive decline.

I’m not sure how it happened. I imagine the liberals figured out a way to make a concerning lack of mental acuity contagious.

But whatever the cause, hearing the president ramble incoherently during a nationally televised news conference on Monday, Aug. 11, left no doubt: The man’s brain has turned to oatmeal.

For starters, on two occasions Trump told reporters he will be meeting in days with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia. The meeting will be held in Alaska, which, unless Trump has given away one of America’s states to Putin, is very much not in Russia.

A mistake like that from President Biden would have prompted Republicans to launch a congressional investigation into his competency and CNN’s Jake Tapper to pen a book on the presidential competency scandal of a generation. Two mistakes like that from Biden would have effectively spun the U.S. news media into a months-long cyclone of speculation and hysteria.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/11/trump-dc-crime-national-guard-putin-us/85614586007/