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@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world • 8 months ago

Donald Trump is Lying About His Age | At a town hall, the 78-year-old Trump said that he was “not that close to 80.”

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Donald Trump is Lying About His Age | At a town hall, the 78-year-old Trump said that he was “not that close to 80.”

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@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world • 8 months ago
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Watch: Trump, 78, Lies Directly to His Fans About His Age
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At a town hall, the 78-year-old Trump said that he was “not that close to 80.”
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  • @Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    3•8 months ago

    Depends how you define close.

    • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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      4•8 months ago

      79 and 3 days left until my birthday is close! Everything else is soooooo far off! Lol

  • @mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    8•8 months ago

    Yo be fair, he probably forgot.

  • @svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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    17•8 months ago

    It’s because he doesn’t expect to make it to 80. So close, yet so far away.

    • @ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      1•8 months ago

      Has there been leaked plans to do what Hitler did when he lost?

  • @YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    26•8 months ago

    It’s probably because he can’t subtract his age from 80.

  • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    39•8 months ago

    We took my grandmother out for her 80th birthday. Her dementia had progressed, but was still not too far along that we could still have conversations with her. She’d often forget who, where, or when we were and would frequently go on very charming, albeit confusing tangents.

    At one point on the car ride home, my sister tells her, “Happy birthday!” My grandmother asks, “it’s my birthday?” Giddily, my sister replies, “yes! It’s your 80th birthday!”

    My grandmother gets a sudden moment of lucidity and says, “I’m 80?? That’s terrible news!”

    Whether Trump is just saying shit or has forgotten his age, there’s no excuse for saying that he’s not that close to 80 where he comes out sounding okay. Then again, his supporters seem to want a racist Alzheimer’s patient for president…

  • @ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    18•8 months ago

    Don’t you think he looks tired.

    • go $fsck yourself
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      4•8 months ago

      Doctor?

      • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        1•8 months ago

        The Doctor would have stepped in by now I hope

        • go $fsck yourself
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          2•8 months ago

          The Doctor stepped in to handle Harriet Jones by saying those exact words, “Don’t you think she looks tired?”

    • @Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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      6•8 months ago

      Sleepy Don

      • @cmoney@lemmy.world
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        5•8 months ago

        Don-old

  • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Is he lying or is he too far gone to remember his age?

    • @WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      3•8 months ago

      I think it’s more that he doesn’t like reality, so it’s simply not true to him… but he’s not shy about lying, and is clearly losing his mind - ladies and gentlemen, I give you the disaster that’s a coin flip away from running the global hegemon …again.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      47•8 months ago

      Clearly too far gone. The campaign trail is clearly exhausting him. In all these years full of bullshit, I’ve never seen anything like the last month.

      • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
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        10•8 months ago

        I hope we see him running in public in diapers, asking where his mommy is. worst part is he’d probably get a couple more votes out of it.

        • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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          16•8 months ago

          His followers would just put on diapers and run through the streets with him. They’re too far gone.

  • @carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    13•8 months ago

    He just can remember that’s all.

  • @snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    33•8 months ago

    Don’t these people ever want to retire? Enjoy your final years? So weird.

    • @spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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      72•8 months ago

      Trump is only running because he doesn’t want to retire to a Federal prison cell.

      • @withabeard@sh.itjust.works
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        3•8 months ago

        You’re crediting him with far too much competence.

        His handler has said he has to continue, and he’ll obey

      • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        25•8 months ago

        He also makes bank campaigning. That’s far more important to him than anything.
        He’ll never see a jail cell anyways.

        • theprogressivist
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          5•8 months ago

          Only a jail cell of his own mediocrity.

        • @catharso@discuss.tchncs.de
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          8 months ago

          That’s also weird to me. As soon as i have enough money to feel kinda secure for the next few months, making more money is not a huge priority anymore. Other interests then become way more important. This too is not optimal, i know. But it always has been like this for me. I wonder why i’m missing the greed gene 🤔

          • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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            2•8 months ago

            I feel the same way but I don’t want the back-and-forth of finding a job. Accumulate enough to retire very modestly and then just enjoy living. I can’t imagine trying to hoard more money than I need to survive this lifetime.

          • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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            2•8 months ago

            Same. I’m not horder. I use money when I have it.

      • @azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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        2•8 months ago

        If avoiding prison was all he wanted he could just release his medical records. The one who definitely don’t say he had a series of strokes.

        He’s a powerful narcissist, with probable dementia, surrounded by yes-men very heavily invested in this election. I’m not even sure he even has the capacity to fear legal repercussions for his actions.

        • @spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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          2•8 months ago

          Trump planned for and started this run years ago when his dementia wasn’t nearly as advanced.

          Besides, plenty of people with serious mental conditions go to prison. There is only one reason he won’t be one of them. He’s wealthy and only the first part of “Liberty and Justice” applies to him.

      • @ziggurat@lemmy.world
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        1•8 months ago

        Do you think he will do what his idol Hitler did when he lost to try to avoid that?

        • @spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          Trump would start a nuclear war if he thought he could save himself.

    • @lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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      4•8 months ago

      He needs attention and adoration. It’s pathological.

    • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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      7•8 months ago

      You can’t retire if you have never worked?

      Aah, that’s what the 15 minutes mc donalds was for.

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