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Miles Archer

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Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:44 PM Friday

GOP slowly beginning to sense an incoherent somnambulistic decaying rambling Grampy on the campaign trail has its risks [View all]

'Talking like a crazy person': GOP hesitant to put 'declining' Trump on campaign trail

https://www.rawstory.com/alternet-posts/donald-trump-decline-2674396453/

“We need to talk about Trump’s age … and what it means for the next three years,” said Last, pointing out that the president’s hair is “really thinning” and nobody’s yet figured out how to get bronzer on his “albino white scalp.”

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“As he goes into these states, he starts talking like a crazy person … about the affordability scam and pencils. … He doesn’t even sound that good,” said (former Republican and Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell). “The idea of putting him on the trail — the reason they’re doing it now is because he’s declining. They’re trying to get him out there early … and voters are so done with these old candidates.”

“The only way Trump got away with his age was because he was not as old as Biden,” Longwell continued. “You could tell they were roughly the same age … but Trump had big lunatic energy still. That is falling. That is going away. Now he’s doing this thing where he’s waking up in the middle of the night and ripping off 150 [Truth Social] posts at 3 am and falling asleep while Marco Rubio is talking. And it’s happening a lot where he’s napping in the day.”

(Bulwark editor Jonathan Last) said what will be obvious to voters over the next three years is that the U.S. “won’t really have a president, just a ceremonial head of state with “Stephen Miller trying to get what he can, Marco Rubio trying to get what he can and JD Vance trying to put himself in a position to hold everything together while also trying to figure out if there’ s a way to knife the old man.”

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Insolent idiots. Let Trump Be Trump. dalton99a Friday #1
Hell yeah. Just turn him loose and let him "weave." Miles Archer Friday #3
+1. Let him ramble for 3 hours every other day until he strokes out on live TV dalton99a Friday #5
From your keyboard to karma's ear SheltieLover Friday #8
Donnie stroking. THAT will be the most repeated clip in the history of history! paleotn Friday #12
This just in from the No Shit Sherlock Desk. FalloutShelter Friday #2
somnambulistic! You win! surfered Friday #4
Comedy gold for Orrex's morning thread! SheltieLover Friday #9
If I can remember how to spell it 😁 surfered Friday #10
Lol SheltieLover Friday #14
"the president's hair is "really thinning" and nobody's yet figured out how to get bronzer on his "albino white scalp." SheltieLover Friday #6
It's been done before surfered Friday #11
... SheltieLover Friday #13
Metamucucillini's Comeback Tour dweller Friday #7
King Leer is oozing brain cells by the minute Hassler Friday #15
GOP slowly beginning to sense an incoherent somnambulistic decaying rambling Grampy on the campaign trail has its risks venusgirl Friday #16
They're still going around the table, North Korea-style, praising Dear Leader Miles Archer Saturday #18
All these nihilist racists have to do is to wreck shit and let other shit fall to pieces LuvLoogie Saturday #17
"Trump had big lunatic energy still" llmart Saturday #19
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