Trump's rambling speeches raise questions about mental decline
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | If he is re-elected, former President Donald Trump, now 78 years old, would be the oldest |
| 0:05.9 | president ever elected. After a number of appearances where his remarks were rambling or incoherent, |
| 0:12.1 | and one event in which he swayed silently to music |
| 0:14.9 | on stage for close to 40 minutes, questions are being raised about possible |
| 0:19.0 | cognitive decline. Here are a couple of recent events that sparked concern. The first one in which he began talking about electric vehicles, then switched to a story about an electrically powered boat. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's see your boat goes down and I'm sitting on top of this big powerful battery and the |
| 0:36.0 | boat's going down. Do I get electrocuted? And he said, you know what? |
| 0:40.8 | Honestly, nobody's ever asked me that question. |
| 0:44.4 | But if I'm sitting down and that boat's going down and I'm on top of a battery, |
| 0:49.8 | and the water starts flooding in. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm getting concerned. But then I look 10 yards to my left and |
| 0:55.2 | there's a shark over there. So I have a choice of electrocution or a shark. You know what? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm going to take? Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time. |
| 1:04.8 | Let's listen to Pavarotti sing Ave Maria. |
| 1:09.0 | Can you hear that? A Bue Maria. |
| 1:22.0 | Young. Young, There's no need to be. Young man. |
| 1:23.0 | There's no need to feel down. |
| 1:25.0 | I said young man. |
| 1:27.0 | Pick yourself off the ground. |
| 1:29.0 | I said young man. |
| 1:31.0 | Mr. Trump has dismissed any speculation about mental decline, describing his rambling rhetoric as him weaving together different topics and saying his supporters get it. |
| 1:42.0 | Let's take a look at some of these questions with an author and clinical psychologist |
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