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Media Begins to Call Out Trump on His GAFFES at Rallies. Biden, DeSantis & Haley Follow Suit [1]

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Date: 2023-11-12  

Kos wrote this the other day:

Donald Trump gets the facts wrong, but the media won’t tell you about it

Well, looks like it’s begun. At least from NYTimes and WaPo:

Media is beginning to report on Trump’s gaffes and mental lapses

I promised you some good news at the end here. The New York Times andWashington Post have both run stories now about Trump’s multiple verbal slips during recent rallies, pointing out that this is weakening one of his strongest attacks: Biden’s age.

These are more than just his usual “freewheeling” style. Even as Trump mocks Biden’s physical appearances and speech patterns, “Trump has had a string of unforced gaffes, garble and general disjointedness that go beyond his usual discursive nature,” wrote the Times. After earlier pretending to be Biden getting Idaho and Iowa mixed up, Trump thanked supporters in Sioux City, Iowa—by calling their city Sioux Falls, which is in Idaho. An aide had to correct him. In recent weeks, he’s told his own followers not to vote and claimed to have defeated President Obama in an election.

His challengers, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, have grabbed onto this as a campaign issue. “It’s sad to see,” DeSantis said. “It’s just a different guy.” Nikki Haley has mocked Trump lately for getting his world leaders mixed up, including saying that President Kim of North Korea leads 1.4 billion people, who are Chinese. Trump also confused the presidents of Turkey and Hungary in his speeches.

The attack ads are coming as well. Both the DeSantis and the Biden campaigns have produced compilations of the gaffes, missteps and ramblings that show a man presumably in significant cognitive decline.

Trump’s mental decline is only likely to accelerate from here, and the attack ads are probably going to write themselves.

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