Trump fell asleep during his cabinet meeting.

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@JugglingWithEggs @humanhorseshoes @copter_chief

Ronald Reagan was 73 when elected for second term and 77 when he left office. And it’s widely believed now that he had dementia in that second term.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@JugglingWithEggs @humanhorseshoes @copter_chief

his erratic behaviour was the source for a lot of Spitting Image sketches (and also the Genesis "Land of Confusion" video)

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@vfrmedia @JugglingWithEggs @copter_chief I remember it well, Him cutting off his toes instead of cutting his toenails. Russia at the time was a geriatric mess too with Brezhnev rambling, Chernenko then Andropov, dropping off, the only sign of hope in the past 50 years out of Russia was Gorbachev who the elderly Putin despised and disrespected by not attending his funeral

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@vfrmedia @humanhorseshoes @copter_chief

As a child in the 80’s I was aware that Reagan was a doddery old man, not all there, prone to gaffs.

In much the same way my kids now look on Trump with pity and laugh at him.

Thankfully they know that the job of US president doesn’t have to belong to someone in their twilight years, because they are aware of previous occupants of the White House.

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@humanhorseshoes @vfrmedia @copter_chief

My first memory of world events was watching the state funeral of Chernenko. I think I was off school sick and it just appeared on the tv at lunchtime when I was expecting to see something like Pigeon Street!

Just remember images of a very cold grey day, an open casket, canons firing and this very distinctive looking man kissing the old dead guy in the coffin.

And so my interest in politics began…

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @copter_chief if you watch Brezhnevs funeral, just when he was being put in the ground they dropped his coffin. 250 million people in the Soviet Union and they left the burial to just two guys

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@humanhorseshoes @vfrmedia @copter_chief

But at that point the USSR realised old frail men were not who should be leading their country.

And I had thought the USA learned the same lesson a few short years later with the departure of Reagan.

So how did we get back to here, with a confused and sick 79 year old Trump at the helm?

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @copter_chief American apathy to democracy and lots and lots and lots of billionaire cash

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@humanhorseshoes @vfrmedia @copter_chief

Given the weight of the coffin, it was metal plated, that does seem weird that they didn’t have more pallbearers. Maybe there were no takers for the job?

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @copter_chief I just watched one of his slurred speeches and only now noticed his strong Ukranian accent, not what he said but the hard G sound in Russian is made into a kind of breathless Hah by Ukranians, MaGazine and MaHAzine. Funny what you find

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @copter_chief https://youtu.be/8fgdlx_H_-A?is=yYH1eSqfPq6c5ge сиськи, мои сиськи had me in stitches

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@humanhorseshoes @vfrmedia @copter_chief

Brezhnev was Ukrainian and Stalin was Georgian…I guess the Lloyd George and Blair of the USSR.

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@humanhorseshoes @vfrmedia @copter_chief

That’s funny even when relying on the English subtitles!

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@vfrmedia @copter_chief Agreed. I worked with geriatric patients for most of my career.
There's a big difference between a healthy 80 year old and what we see in trump.
The facial droop, the swollen ankles, the bruised hands, sleeping during meetings? They are not telling us the truth about his physical health problems either, and we have the right to know.

[copter_chief@mstdn.party]

@vfrmedia @Barbramon1 Ne can’t finish all his sentences. Does this sound like Trump would say?

“I was there, but maybe not, I was, but those radical left, don’t like it, they say, he and then I said yes, and he said that’s unlike anything the world has ever seen, because I, did like nobody else has ever.”

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@copter_chief @vfrmedia
It's often more shocking to see trump's words in print than to hear him speak. Although he talks nonsense, he does it with a somewhat theatrical effect, raising his voice, then nearly whispering at times, waving his arms, using hand gestures.
Take that away, and all you have is an incoherent jumble of rubbish.

[copter_chief@mstdn.party]

@Barbramon1 @vfrmedia and when you see his accordion hands, you know he is lying. Scaramucci said it was his tell.

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@copter_chief @vfrmedia This biggest tell is when he is moving his prissy little lips.