But can he eat 50 eggs?
A former landlady lived alone nextdoor. A sweet old lady, she rarely had visitors. Over the years she developed memory issues.
I’d regularly stop by after work to visit. I’d ask what Meals on Wheels brought her for lunch. She’d pause, smile, and say, “Oh … something.” She began repeating how someone or other had stolen her steak knives.
Time interviewed our autocrat-in-chief on April 22. Donald Trump seems to be having memory issues:
Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We’re now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There’s zero deals so far. Why is that?
No, there’s many deals.
When are they going to be announced?
You have to understand, I’m dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We’re meeting with China. We’re doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, I’ve made all the deals.
Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?
I’ve made 200 deals.
You’ve made 200 deals?
100%.
Trump wouldn’t name one. *
Trump implied in another rambling “weave” that it’s like he runs a department store and tells suppliers what he considers “a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don’t have to pay it.”
Also, everyone is stealing his steak knives.
“Everybody took advantage of us. What I’m doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries…. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else,” Trump said.
He seemed to forget that he announced them using a chart on April 2 before pausing them for 90 days a week later.
Time prodded:
I’m just curious, why don’t you announce these deals that you’ve solidified?
I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we’re finished, by the way.
You’re finished?
We’ll be finished.
Trump seems to have forgotten he said minutes earlier, “I’ve made 200 deals.”
On Friday, Trump told reporters that the trade deals he told Time days ago he’d already completed “are going very well.”
A friend who deals with a lot of seniors observed on Facebook:
I see a lot of cognitive decline and this is covering for cognitive decline. Any question, he’ll agree (or at least refuse to rule it out) and also one-up it, to hide that he’s not following very well, e.g.:
“Mr President, do you agree with GOP calls to invade Luxembourg?”
“Certainly that’s, uh, an idea. Why not? There are at least 7, 8 countries we really should invade.”
That’s his patter/pattern.
Someone ask the most powerful man on the planet, the man with access to the nuclear launch codes, what he ate for lunch.
* Worldometer:
There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.
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