In the discussion of President Trump’s mental fitness, many people who interact with the President on a daily basis have noted his penchant for repeating the same words and phrases over and over again as a sign of his intellectual decline and possible incipient dementia. Now, those of us who luckily don’t have to be in the same room as the 71-year-old Commander-in-Chief can observe the same phenomenon by simply reading his tweets.
He started his morning with a brag about the stock market and the economy under his stewardship, a frequent topic despite the fact that the majority of Americans still give credit to President Obama for the current state of the economy.
Yesterday was a big day for the stock market. Jobs are coming back to America. Chrysler is coming back to the USA, from Mexico and many others will follow. Tax cut money to employees is pouring into our economy with many more companies announcing. American business is hot again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
The stock market, which has been rising since way before Trump took office, is still in the boom part of the boom/bust cycle with many people wary of when the bubble will pop. Trump’s Republican tax giveaway to corporate interests will certainly make a lot of wealthy people richer, but the trickle-down effect, despite the manufactured hype of companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Walmart handing out bonuses (along with accompanying layoffs), will be no different than it has been in the past, in others words negligible.
In his next tweet, Trump tackled DACA, attacking Democrats for refusing to compromise their principles and accept an extortionary deal for an unneeded, ineffective, and ludicrously expensive border wall in exchange for reinstituting the DACA program that Trump unilaterally ended.
The Democrats are all talk and no action. They are doing nothing to fix DACA. Great opportunity missed. Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
Trump’s obviously false accusations are an insult to the Democrats who have proffered a clean “Dreamers” act for Congressional Republicans, who control the legislative agenda to enact. The opportunities are controlled by the GOP leadership, so they are the one’s missing the opportunity. In fact, a bipartisan deal had been reached to extend the protections for the Dreamers, but it was Trump with his “shithole countries” remarks who torpedoed the deal.
Next Trump just tweeted out his campaign slogan in all caps for no apparent reason. If somebody were to check the timestamp on his tweet, however, and see what Fox News had on air a few moments before, they’d surely find the motivating factor.
AMERICA FIRST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
It was the President’s last tweet that leads one to believe that he forgot that he sent his earlier tweet.
I don’t believe the Democrats really want to see a deal on DACA. They are all talk and no action. This is the time but, day by day, they are blowing the one great opportunity they have. Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
With practically the same language as his earlier tweet, Trump expresses the same exact same idea. Here it is, the Twitter equivalent of sitting in the corner repeating the same phrases over and over again. Too bad!
