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Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • At 78 years old, former President Donald Trump is now the oldest nominee running for president.
  • Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, 59.
  • If she becomes the Democratic nominee, Harris' age could be an advantage against Trump.
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (4 children)

He said this in 2016:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

He was still elected.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I love these transcripts, they always sound like a conversation some rambling old man is having with his hospice nurse.

Ok Mr. Trump, very good. Now take your medications.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish to point out that he was in his early 70s at the time, generally a bit early for that level of impairment.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

generally a bit early for that level of impairment.

Well, assuming the impairment is age-related and not just, you know, built in

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, although if you watch him over the years, especially between 2016 and now, there's been a huge amount of noticeable cognitive decline.

He forgot his own wife's name. He called her Mercedes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah it's true that while he was never exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, he does seem to have gotten a lot worse fairly quickly. Might be COVID, it's been linked to cognitive decline and I've definitely seen that in my own parents who are no spring chicken

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It’s like an LLM is responding to a Markov chain with an LLM-generated Markov chain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IMO the more amazing thing is that he's since referenced his uncle multiple times as proof that he himself is smart.

Like, aside from all the crazy rambling, he buys into eugenics to such an extent that he thinks his uncle being smart necessarily means that he is also smart. And, he assumes his audience will also believe that intelligence is a hereditary trait like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Apparently they do believe it. Either that or they just accept that he does and don't care. But I'd say believing in eugenics is more likely.