>>211863758He’s also experiencing really obvious cognitive decline—if you compare his public statements from his first go-round with the random, meandering stuff he vomits up nowadays, the differences can be glaring. He was always a bullshitter, and I absolutely believe that he’s got (or at least once had) the capacity to shift his style and register to suit different audiences, but every time I’ve heard him speak for more than a minute or two lately he’s come across as a guy who forgot what he was talking about a few seconds after he started.
>dealmaker 4D chess blah blah blahHe’s not doing it on purpose. Grandpa is barely holding on and his handlers are realizing that—he was evacuated from the G7 barely one day in not to solve the Middle East, and not even to shill his kids’ ugly new phone grift, but so his disjointed fumbling and stream of consciousness ranting out loud (which already had fuckin Meloni rolling her eyes) had the potential to go from just embarrassing to potentially dangerous.