• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      To be fair he did, he’s been noticably more erratic and confrontational then his first term. This isn’t to say his first term was a model of stability and good governance, just that he is definitely declining mentally.

      This doesn’t excuse her support for him earlier, but if she wants to push dementia don out, I’m not gonna get in her way.

      • greygore@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        He’s the same but unfiltered. Which you can argue is a change, but the underlying personality and (complete lack of) values are the same. He’s always turned on sycophants for the slightest reason, he’s always ranted delusionally, he’s always been a narcissist who cares about petty and meaningless awards, he’s always been a corrupt grifter, he’s always full of threats and bravado who chafes at any restrictions on his impulses, he’s always been a shitty deal maker whose only tactic is escalation and starts out so aggressive he doesn’t leave himself any room to negotiate, he’s always been racist and misogynistic, he’s always been stupid, ignorant, and incurious but still believes he’s smarter and more knowledgeable than anyone else.

        None of those qualities changed. The only things that have changed are:

        • His dementia has gotten worse and his grasp on reality has weakened.
        • He’s now completely surrounded by sycophantic yes men who won’t question or push back on his worst impulses.
        • He’s faced so few consequences for his craziest impulses and corruption that he no longer feels any constraint, which is exacerbated by the previous two points.
      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        She’s going to push in some other fuckup racist shitbag in his place.

        She’s not on our side, she’s just not on Donnie’s anymore either.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      10 hours ago

      She’s just confirming we should never trust a word she says. Trump is doing everything we feared he’d do. None of it is truly surprising.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah. She sounds like “we thought our leopard was better-trained” when the issue was she thought she was in control of the beast or even valuable to his real handlers at any point in this.

      I worry she’s gonna discover how expendable everyone in his orbit truly is, and how his true handlers (Russia via Melania, Israel via whoever took over for Epstein) value America and Americans so very little.