Trump's Mental Condition Continues to Deteriorate

Donald Trump has shown serious signs of senility for at least the last five years. And the evidence keeps mounting.

Trump has claimed that his father was born in Germany at least three times, most recently the other day when he was meeting with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg:

"I mean, Germany, honestly, is not paying their fair share. I have great respect for Angela and I have great respect for their country," the president said of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "My father is German. Right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany, and so I have a great feeling for Germany."

Trump's father was born in New York. His grandfather was born in Germany, came to the United States as a teenager, went back to Germany after living in the US for a time and begged to stay there, but the Germans deported him for evading military service as a youth. Draft-dodging runs in the Trump blood, I guess.

Like some wacky old grandpa, Trump thinks that wind turbines cause cancer because they make noise. Infrasound, in particular. You know what else makes infrasound? The wind. The waves. Whales. And every motor that runs in every city and every farm.

You know what really causes cancer? Coal: coal dust causes cancer in miners and the general population can get cancer from breathing coal soot and drinking water contaminated by effluent constantly spilling from pits filled with coal ash. Oil also causes cancer, from the chemicals used to extract it with fracking, to the crap spewed into the air from refining it (like benzene), to breathing the soot produced by burning diesel, to the fumes you inhale when you fill your tank.

And then there are Trump's frequent speech problems. Trump was unable to pronounce the word "origins" three times on Tuesday, saying "oranges" instead. Which is pretty hilarious, considering how orange Trump looks. Steven Colbert mocked Trump for these mispronunciations, which people politely call "gaffes" but are really signs of his deteriorating mental condition.

It has long been clear that Trump is a senile old dotard, as the love of Trump's life, Kim Jong Un, called him. Trump's Twitter feed and his administration's policies should be evidence enough of that, but when he starts losing it in full public view, even Republicans should realize that it's time to quietly demand his resignation behind closed doors.

Trump can claim he needs to spend more time cheating at golf.