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Harry Gural
Lewisburg
Even Donald Trump's most diehard supporters must admit that he's not the man he was in 2016. At 78 years old, he now rambles incoherently, loses his train of thought and forgets the most basic facts.
Trump refers to his zigzag speaking style as "the weave," as if he does complex mental gymnastics and miraculously lands on his feet. But many of his comments are bizarre. For example, he frequently tells audiences he would rather die by electrocution than be eaten by a shark.
He also makes up things out of whole cloth. Fact checkers found that Trump made more than 30,000 false or inaccurate public statements during his first term. His former national security adviser, John Bolton, said that he "can't tell the difference between what's true and what's false."
Trump claims that he is a near genius for having aced an IQ test by correctly repeating five words in order -- "person, woman, man, camera, TV" -- and accurately identifying drawings of a giraffe, a tiger, and a whale. The irony is that he didn't realize that he wasn't taking an IQ test, but one to diagnose possible dementia.
Even Trump's staunchest supporters realize that he has changed. Crowds at venues that would have been packed in 2016 are now much smaller. Videos show people leaving Trump speeches after just 20 minutes, likely due to boredom, confusion or demoralization -- or all three.
See for yourself on YouTube by watching any recent Trump speech. You'll find that he is more coherent, more forgetful, more apt to repeat obvious falsehoods and more detached from reality.
Would you hand the keys to someone stumbling out of a bar? Why would you trust Trump to protect you or to steer our country?