Trump speech at DAVOS

He's actually only 79. Doesn't turn 80 until June 14th this year.

After yesterday I bet it wasn’t Somalia. Also why does he pronounce Somalia / Somalians the way he does !

Can't remember which one it was but he referred to one of the country's referring to him as daddy.

Don't let him do it to you!

Oh damn, I forgot the correct preface to the phrase. Sorry.
Actually Pratchett's eccentric beggars make a lot more sense than President Trump.

I was thinking that. Utterly graceless.

I really feel for decent Americans who must be mortified at their ‘representation’

Without any agenda at all, he actually sounded odd and a bit unwell - slurred and vague. It could just be his senility catching up with him (he is in his 80s after all, imagine trying to do a job as demanding as POTUS at that age) or something more serious.

Re Greenland, if he’s not going to take it by force (apparently) it’ll be a case of ever-crushing tariffs and withdrawal from deals and agreements until we all agree. So fuck knows what happens now.

I’m absolutely desperate for us to rejoin the EU.

I was wondering about this - how interpreters deal with him. It must be so stressful. He says Iceland but you know he means Greenland, no sentence goes completed, and he makes up words and concepts. How do you deal with that? I think I'd spend the whole time in excusing myself and reassuring the client they were his errors not mine. Total nightmare.

I gave up smoking on the first of Jan. Half way through his speech, I got the fear and went to buy fags. I'm disappointed in myself, but I really got scared. Something needs to happen here. Europe and the UK need to stand up to him. Are we so dependent on him? Is there nothing we can do?

Biden got publically confused a few times and should have stepped down long before he did.

He had a good run but was clearly unwell and not in a place to do four more years - and people round him should have been clear about that with him and his party should have planned for it.

Trump never made sense in speaches even in the run up to the first term - seen comedians make fun of transcrpits of some of those speaches they make no kind of sense and ramble - it's just got worse and worse.

I was shocked he got in first time and astounded he managed it a second - though think he was lucky with his apponents. It beggers belief they couldn't find better candiates in a country that size.

But where are congress and the senate the courts - there are supposedly check and balances in the US system where are they and why aren't they working - US system put him in this poistion of power and left him unchecked - all the rest of the world can do is react accordingly to that.

That is definitely a thing, I agree but the pp didn't allude to that, only his alleged incontinence. Imo that detracts from the seriousness of what he is and instead move into cheap namecalling etc.

A bit like when people mock the leader of The Greens for his teeth instead of focusing on his somewhat wild policy suggestions.

OMG I need the laughing emoji back.

And then he goes 'Is Mark here?' - in a room that is in darkness 'He is here. Hi Mark'. 😅

Best bit was when he repeated the nonsense claim that "without the US you'd all be speaking German..." while stood in Davos, Switzerland, where the majority language is...

I read that wrong and thought you said look up Trump's Flying Apple speech

Because as a PP said, he is their useful idiot. VP Vance is really not so popular.

Reagan was diagnosed with alzheimers and announced it 5 years after leaving office but he was nothing like Trump is.
They are just using him because he has a fanbase.

Thank you!

Thank you!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjrzjqg8dlwt#player

@FlyingApple it is on YouTube on the Associated Press channel. Just look up Trump WEF Davos speech.

I have heard there is a far more sinister explanation for incontinence allegedly !
And yes please dont make incontinent people feel shamed for it.

I'm not sure he is demented. I think he is a raging narcissist in full and unchallenged flow. He genuinely believes he is the closest thing to God on earth and I doubt anyone challenges him on anything. So, he believes his own bullshit. It is terrifying to watch.

Has anyone got a video link?

Biden did far less to be considered not of full capacity. Trump needs to be put out to pasture.

OK this is a 'rambling' in my head so feel free to strike me down but - just say he does have dementia. OK? Is this right? I hate him but he's still a human being (of a sort). So if he does have it, why is a doctor not stepping in and stopping this? From a human perspective, it isn't right if he does have it, to just be laughing at him. But it's even more frightening that he is the leader of the free world.

Do you think Biden was as bad? I certainly don't! He is completely demented, cognitively below any level imaginable, and thinks being able to pick out a giraffe from a lion, a fish and a hippo means he's 'aced' cognitive tests.
His father had alzheimers, I imagine he is well on the way there.

Biden was just old. But he was spot on with knowledge. Trump can't even remember the country Greenland, and calls it Iceland.