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Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.

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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

Yes, Trump, let the hate flow through you. Unleash your racism in a flood of glorious hate for all the world to watch on the television, and show the world who you truly are.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 3 months ago

Outbursts of uncontrolled anger are a common symptom of alzheimer's/dementia beginning to degrade the prefrontal cortex and the brain's emotional regulation.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 29 points 3 months ago

Yep. I have an acquaintance with early-onset Alzheimer's, and he has posted a lot about how emotionally disregulated he is. He's fine in writing but he has warned his friends that if they visit him in person, he won't be like they remember him.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I'm imagining that frustrating feeling of having the imprint of a thought but forgetting what it was, except all the freaking time. Must be hell.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is hell, and I've watched my grandpa slowly slip into it. Not bad, yet, but enough that you can see the awful frustration.

If my mind starts slipping away like that when I'm old, I'll probably just shoot myself honestly. It would be a preferrable way to go than gradually losing all my faculty until I don't know who I even am.

[-] littlewonder@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Sorry to hear that, mate. That sounds really tough, even if you're just observing the disease's progression from afar.

[-] DxK@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Yeah, Trump's too old and senile to be President. Weird too. Much too weird to be President.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Weeeeeeeeeird.

[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago

“I think it’s a very nasty question,” Trump said. “For you to start off a question and answer period especially when you’re 35 minutes late … in such a hostile manner, I think it’s a disgrace.”

It's just his way of saying, "I'd rather not answer that."

[-] die444die@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

And NYT said the reason for the 35 minute delay was because he was having a hissy fit over live fact checking.

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

How is it that not a single journalist asked him to name one thing he's done for black people?

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

This was also my take-away from a similar article I read earlier. Why not simple ask, "such as?" or, "yes, please remind the voters what you've done for Black Americans."?

From 2020 - https://www.vox.com/21524499/what-trump-has-done-for-black-people
•Trump passed a significant criminal justice reform measure, but his administration has worked to undo it
• Black employment gains before the pandemic were real — but not the result of Trump’s presidential term
• Trump’s claims on poverty don’t tell the full story of racial disparity
• The mechanism for funding HBCUs has very little to do with Trump

Trump does indeed deserve some credit with criminal justice reform. It's arguably the only good thing he did in four years. It's certainly nothing to give any credence to "best since Lincoln".

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/18/18140973/state-of-the-union-trump-first-step-act-criminal-justice-reform

The First Step Act, which passed with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, takes modest steps to alter the federal criminal justice system and ease very punitive prison sentences at the federal level. It affects only the federal system — which, with about 181,000 imprisoned people, holds a small but significant fraction of the US jail and prison population of 2.1 million.
Essentially, the law allows thousands of people to earn an earlier release from prison and could cut many more prison sentences in the future.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Can we even be certain that the criminal justice reform was not just his way of making things easier for himself, as a criminal who would eventually face justice?

[-] tiefling 1 points 3 months ago

You know he doesn't remember any of that and would instead go on yet another rant about how "Mexicans are taking Black jobs"

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 37 points 3 months ago

Aww... did Twumpy-wumpy miss his nap-time?

[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 months ago

Like during early COVID Trump was asked what he wants to say to Americans that were scared, he replied that the reporter was nasty or something similar. He can't handle any questions that are outside of his line of thinking.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Oh, lordy, I hope there are tapes.

[-] Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

The Forbes channel upload on this has some comments that reminded me it doesn't matter what he does or says... people just follow him blindly. What's the quote? About him shooting someone on a corner and not losing a single vote....

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[-] CPMSP@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

What happened to his stupid fucking ear pillow?

Pretty quick surgical work.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

When was it that "attack" when from assumed to be physical to "clashed with" someone?

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago
[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Do you have a particular moment in mind?

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