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(5,378 posts)-  Trump tries to explain water to the Navy  then wanders off while meeting Japans Prime Minister. The same people who called Biden senile are dead silent now. It was supposed to be a show of strength: the commander-in-chief aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, surrounded by sailors and flags. Instead, it was a brainfart in slow motion.
Trump spent nearly twenty minutes rambling about magnets.
 Not defense strategy, not China, not even veterans  magnets.
You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets  I dont know whats going to happen, he told the troops aboard the USS George Washington, before declaring that hed sign an executive order to bring back steam-powered catapults and hydraulic elevators.
At one point, he actually polled the audience: Who prefers magnets? Who prefers hydraulics?
 Sailors looked at each other in disbelief. Some laughed nervously.
 It was the kind of moment that would have dominated every front page  if Joe Biden had done it.
But Trump wasnt done.
 The next morning, during a welcoming ceremony in Tokyo, he seemed to lose track of where he was and walked away from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi mid-procession.
Cameras captured the awkward scene as a Secret Service agent gently redirected him back.
No one shouted about it on Fox News. No pundits demanded a cognitive test.
No endless cable loops calling it proof of decline.
Yet just months ago, the same people mocked Biden for tripping on a sandbag.
This isnt about a stumble or a gaffe.This was a sitting president unraveling in real time  confusing basic technology, slurring through half-finished thoughts, and wandering off during a diplomatic event.
Trump has insisted he aced a mental exam that asked him to identify animals like elephants and giraffes.
 Now, by his own admission, hes taken another one  an MRI and a very hard aptitude test involving those same questions doctors use to check for dementia.
Its not hard to see why.
The right spent years convincing voters that Bidens age made him unfit for office. But what were watching with Trump isnt age  its deterioration.
 He isnt just forgetting words; hes forgetting reality.
A president who thinks water destroys magnets, who confuses himself mid-sentence, who loses his bearings beside a foreign leader  thats not a punchline.
Thats a crisis.
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