The Bathrobe Don

 So much speculation about Trump likely being senile. Yet we listen to him talk to FOX's Maria Fartaroma and he sounds so almost reasonably lucid and normal. Stupid- but good. If you want a conspiracy about his mental health, try this on for size: They are using the possibility of Alzheimer's to try to cover up the fact that he's a fucking idiot. 

People are sympathetic to Alzheimer's. Except for Maga, people aren't generally sympathetic to stupidity. Probably every family in America has an elderly loved one who is steadily losing it mentally. We see that grandma or grandpa is forgetful and getting lost in the past while telling stories and forgetting people's names more than usual. And you know this is beyond the normal cluttered mind of old age. It happens to the best of us. 

Well, Trump is certainly not the best of us. I have been pondering this a long time, but in my umpteenth bingeing of "The Sopranos", I started thinking of this more when the episodes of Uncle Junior's efforts to beat a RICO trial played out. These episodes were possibly based on the real-life Don of the Genovese crime family, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. He became known to wander around his Greenwich Village neighborhood in bathrobe and slippers, muttering to himself. Didn't really work, but it didn't hurt with either man. It was worth a try for Uncle Junior until he actually started to go senile. Then it was kind of like the boy who cried wolf.  

I don't think Trump's handlers want to go too far with senility because realistic acts of senility would lead to a louder call for the 25th Amendment. They're not going to have him parade around the White House neighborhood in bathrobe and slippers because that would make them look bad. So, they opt to allow senile conversation while constantly saying how brilliant he is. A truly senile president wouldn't just threaten to annihilate a civilization; he would do it and either think nothing of having done it or completely disavow that he had done it. They keep telling us that there are no guardrails protecting the world from him, but there must be. Threatening to bomb a country back into the Stone Age is perceived as "tough talk from a tough man" rather than senility. It's part of the whole Trump show where he is this fierce, dangerous man. I don't know where the prevalent, whiny little bitch part fits into the tough guy persona though. You have to keep people guessing maybe? It is effective whether they believe it's senility or stupidity as it keeps people on edge.

When he does rallies or pressers and stumbles on words, that seems like old age and stupidity to me. He struggles with teleprompters even after ten years of using them- or if you are Maga- NEVER having used them like that lightweight Obama did. Whichever the case is, teleprompters really jam him up. I'm also not sure he has ever completed a sentence in the last ten years. That is not senility. A part of growing older perhaps. One's mind gets cluttered after 60-70 years of memories and knowing thousands of people. I know the true meaning of the saw I have heard from older people all my life that they, "...have forgotten more than you'll ever know about (a subject) ..."  Trump can't make that claim because he never knew much to begin with about anything. 

This is what we are seeing, stupidity, not senility. I don't imagine that is comforting to anyone though. Pick your poison?  

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  1. MaggieApril 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM

    Agreed. He seems the same horrible person he has always been. Wishful thinking won't change the course.

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    1. AnonymousApril 16, 2026 at 11:56 AM

      Yes, senility is too easy of an explanation, and it attaches him historically to Reagan and his second term. Like Reagan had ever been truly known for political acumen?? NO! He was a dumbass too, just a better speaker as president. His "greatness" was just republican propaganda for the history books. THEY don't even talk about him anymore!

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