Trump's dementia will be on full display tonight, and the MSM

[edhopper]

will ignore it.
That's my prediction.

[dalton99a]

1. 100%

[NCDem47]

2. Headline:

“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]

57. There is a betting line on those and more.

Someone should stick a mic near his ass!

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

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I'd like to say you're wrong.

I can't, but I'd like to.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. No doubt on this.

[Jersey Devil]

5. Good that it will be a "long" speech according to Trump

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]

36. You can bet

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??????

[Betty Boom]

63. Please don't compare the brilliance of James Joyce...

… to any of the blathering that comes out of the mouth of the orange menace.

[slightlv]

55. Meanwhile the republicans and the other Magas

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

[Grammy23]

56. And more opportunities for his teleprompter

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]

6. I hope his speech goes big and beautiful.

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.

[Conjuay]

25. Nice try - but not enough capitialzations and mispellings.

[FakeNoose]

33. Hah, he never speaks in full complete sentences

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]

45. Oh, he's gotten wose. A lot worse.

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.

[popsdenver]

54. and he even outdoes Bush

with his malaprops................

[ShazzieB]

61. Oh yeah, he makes Bush sound like Einstein by comoarison!

[debm55]

7. What else does he have to talk about it that is going good in this country?

[Harker]

22. Everything will be great in two weeks.

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

[calimary]

46. I knew a building contractor who did that.

“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. no...they won't ignore it...

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"...

[Ocelot II]

9. Will Jake Tapper write a new book? Or not?

[MustLoveBeagles]

27. No

He'll have write a sequel to his Biden bashing book.

[leftstreet]

10. His drug cocktail will make him appear normal

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]

13. Probably, but I'll bet getting the mix right for him is getting trickier & trickier & the results less predictable.

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.

[leftstreet]

14. Well THAT would be cool

That's a YouTube clip I'd happily seek out

[Farmer-Rick]

19. I bet the drug cocktail to get him to semi-normal

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]

18. The reason he's been saying it will be "very long".

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.

[Johonny]

30. Normal for him

He never appears normal for a human being.

[Ocelot II]

43. What are they using on him, though, that produces even a temporary impression

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]

44. That's why part of it is "acting"

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]

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?

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]

49. I don't think he will do that

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

[Rebl2]

11. Well they

Ignore it everyday, so why would today be any different.

[Walleye]

12. Count on the TV media to repackage all his lies and try and make them make sense and regurgitate them

[Dr. T]

35. Sanewashing has become an art with the corporate media.

[Blue Owl]

15. He'll just sway to shitty music for 45 minutes

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

[Jrsygrl96]

16. Yep!

[Grim Chieftain]

17. I'm not sure Lawrence O'Donnell will ignore it

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

[MustLoveBeagles]

28. Lawrence is a notable exception

[SunSeeker]

64. Yup! He's the only one tonight who noted that Trump said he wants to replace the federal income tax with tariffs.

Which is batshit crazy, would destroy our economy, render the rich untaxed, and impoverish the middle class. Yet not a single headline about it!

Lawrence was really good on the post-SOTU analysis panel on MSNOW.

[AverageOldGuy]

20. Agreed -- however ---

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]

29. Maybe "millions" will tune in,

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]

53. I can only imagine

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]

21. I won't be watching. Want him to get the lowest ratings ever for a SOTU.

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

[YodaMom2]

23. I'll be watching one of the alternative SOTU events.

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

[sop]

24. If Trump began screaming and throwing things at the seated SC justices, corporate media would call it a "rebuke,"

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

[CTyankee]

26. Ihope there are "reaction" shots: looks on audience faces when he LIES!

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]

31. He'll read a script someone else wrote off of a teleprompter.

That and the correct drug cocktail will get him through.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. The crises are mounting

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]

34. Maybe Joe Biden

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

[underpants]

37. It's supposed to be a long speech so he's basically filibustering

[Joinfortmill]

38. But they won't be able to hide it. Expect lots of clips.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. His staffers will not be at his side to shoo everyone out of the House chamber when he starts decompensating. NT

[OGBuzz]

40. MS NOW will rip him to shreds. Rachel and Lawrence will be on the panel.

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]

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

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]

42. Disagree. He'll read the teleprompter after nice big snorts of Go-Go Powder Special SOTU formula.

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]

50. Yes. Exactly. All he has to do is read the words in front of him

and not go off script.

[ultralite001]

47. What is Krasnov worried about???

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

So much security fencing + so little security...

[Omnipresent]

51. I wonder...

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!”.

[lame54]

52. Jake Tapper should be in the front row

[MaeScott]

58. You already know.

Bet the sanewashing will be off the charts

[JPPaverage]

59. I'm not a gambling man

But I'd be willing to place a large bet that you're correct.

[radical noodle]

60. MS Now won't ignore it

I can pretty much guarantee that.

[Aussie105]

62. Foreign media will report on the SOTU thing.

Some will air the good bits - 30 seconds at the most.

Some will report on the lies and word salad - 60+ minutes of that.

I'm happy to look at a number of streaming media sources across the world to get a better balanced picture.

Avoiding US sources though, for obvious reasons.