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Alligator Don talked too much with another dive into cognitive decline [1]
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Date: 2025-07-02
Trump talked a lot yesterday. Donald Trump talked to reporters before Marine One takeoff. Talked to reporters on Air Force One. Talked as he toured Alligator Alcatraz with Kristie Noem and Ron DeSantis, talked at a roundtable discussion at Alligator Alcatraz at Ochopee, FL., and again before leaving on Marine One.
There was a lot of crazy stuff he said at the Alligator Alcatraz roundtable, but it was one question at the end that caught people's attention.
A clip on X of the exchange.
Reporter: Danamarie McNicholl, Fox News Channel. Mr. President, is there an expected time frame that detainees will spend here, days, weeks, months? And does that have anything to do with the immigration judges you just spoke about being trained and staffed here?
Trump: When you say --- what was the first part of your question?
Reporter: Is there a specific time frame you expect the detainees to spend here days, weeks, months?
Trump: In Florida?
Reporter: Yes, here at Alligator Alcatraz.
Trump: I'm going to spend a lot --- look, this is my home state. I love it. I love your government. I love all the people around. These are all friends of mine. I know them very well. I mean I'm not surprised they do so well. They're great people. Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time. I feel very welcome in this state. I'll spend a lot of time here. I want to --- you know, for 4 years I've got to be in Washington and I'm okay with it because I love the white house. I even fixed up the little Oval Office. I made it --- it's like a diamond, it's so beautiful. It wasn't maintained properly; I will tell you that.
This is what has me concerned. He doesn't know where he is at any particular time. He started saying that he was going to be a detainee spending a lot of time at Alligator Alcatraz. We could only hope so.
After this episode, journalist Mike Rothschild said, "He's obviously losing his cognition in a way that's becoming impossible to cover up or work around. And the more that he declines, the more his sycophants prop him up as doing 'better than ever.' It's an unsustainable situation that could easily end in chaos."
This was just one of his fubars during the entire day. Each time he talked there are signs of the cognitive decline. Instead of covering all of the speaking events during the day, I'm going to stick with this one with the round table discussion, and you'll see during it that he goes through his greatest hits of "how can I look more stupid?"
Trump: It's known as Alligator Alcatraz which is very appropriate, because I looked outside and that's not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon. But soon this facility will have some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet. We're surrounded by treacherous swampland, and the only way out is, really, deportation.
Earlier he said it was deep in the Florida Everglades. That's what I thought. And that's why they have protesters about this facility being put where it is. Pollution to a fragile environment. He talks about hiking like it's a joke. Yesterday he was joking about teaching the detainees how to run away from an alligator.
Trump: ...But there is still so much work to do. Joe Biden allowed 21 million people --- that's a minimum, I think it was much higher than that --- illegal aliens invade our country. He invaded our country like a military would invade.
Now it's Joe Biden himself who invaded the country. Somehow, I don't think there's 21 million of him.
Trump: This enormous country destroying invasion has swamped communities nationwide with massive crime, crippling costs and burdens far beyond what any nation could withstand. No nation could withstand what we did. And we are in the process of doing it, but we have some great people doing it now. You see them up here with me. But it's a --- I call it an unforced error. It's sort of like men in women sports. It's sort of like transgender for everybody. How could they have done this to our country?
Completely incoherent. "No Nation could withstand what we did." What did you do? "And we're in the process of doing it." What it? Unforced error and then a 180 turn into men and women sports, and transgender for everybody. I wish a reporter would someday ask him what he means by transgender for everybody. This is still another episode of "If Joe Biden did that..." Suddenly he's into Los Angeles and how one in four pupils are from a family of illegal immigrants, and they don't speak English.
Trump: So, they were in the school system, and they don't have interpreters, they don't have anything, they don't speak English. What a mess, what a mess, unforced error, all these people allowed to come in.
What is the unforced error? And then he goes into 78 billion dollars is spent on translation, when he just said that they don't have any interpreters. Then he's into every illegal alien costs us $70,000 without explaining whether he's talking about a day, a month, a year or their whole lives. It's just a number he throws out. Then we get back to how great ICE is and that there's going to be 10,000 more of them after the passage of the big ugly betrayal bill. And how they're:
Trump: ... hunting down and deporting migrant criminals who have committed heinous crimes, including more than 13,000 murderers --- 11,888 to be exact, but I'd say that 13,000 is right also.
And, of course, 50% of them have committed more than one murder. Then, he's on to being so proud of having executive ordered that states can enforce immigration laws.
Kristi Noem speaks for too long and Trump has to compliment her.
Trump: ... she rides a horse like she should be in a rodeo. She's an unbelievable horse person and you've done a fantastic job and Steve Miller would even agree to that and he likes nobody, by the way. I don't think he likes anybody.
Trump has actually said the truth about Stephen Miller. This was an almost coherent spot in his speaking. Ron DeSantis says that they could bebuilding a reservoir faster than the Army Corps of Engineers would, and if Trump would give permission they could do that instead of the Army Corps.
Trump: Oh, I would do that. I'll tell you, let me ask myself permission, permission granted. Go ahead, get it complete. You want to do that?
He's not only a Mad King, but he's talking to himself now. This isn't just an aberration, this is how he is all the time.
A reporter asks Trump if he's planning on any other facilities like Alligator Alcatraz.
Trump: Well, we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states… and at some point they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time. It's not that far away from jails that take a long time to build and the money is spent and wasted. And like the railway that they have in California, they cost 40 times more than it was supposed to cost. The same thing happens with prisons....It might be as good as the real Alcatraz site. It could be --- well, that's a spooky one too, isn't it?
So, real prisons cost 40 times as much as what they're doing at Alligator Alcatraz. How are tents going to handle the rain that falls in the Everglades? People will be living in piles of mud. Sure, tents are cheap, but they're temporary.
Trump: We have a lot of bad criminals that came into this country and they came in stupidly. It was an unforced error. It was an incompetent president that allowed it to happen. It was an autopen that maybe allowed it to happen, and it did happen.
Unforced error. This is now the third time that that has been used by Trump, and that's just the sections I'm transcribing. I think somebody used the term recently, and he thought that was a new thing he could say instead of all of his old catch-phrases like "nobody's ever seen before." His fixation on President Biden and the autopen is still another sign. Always, he feels that Biden has persecuted him with both the court cases and what he did while he was in office. Paranoia is a better word.
Still talking about immigrants:
Trump: We have some very bad --- we had some bad accidents in New York and they're not accidents. They were done very much on purpose. People being pushed into a subway just before it arrives going 40 miles an hour and they're 10 ft away from where the thing is, you get pushed into the face of the subway train, get whacked and killed.
Pushed into a subway, and then pushed in front of a subway train. I'm not going to sanewash him here.
A reporter then asked why DHS Secretary Mayorkas hadn't been arrested yet.
Trump: You know, pardons were given out by many --- to many people, and they shouldn't have been given out, like the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs was given a pardon, because they destroyed all the information from 2 years of hearings and they should be arrested. But they were given pardons. Was he given a pardon, Mayorkas? Was he not?
First he starts to say that many people were giving up pardons, then corrects himself. Or maybe it was just he forgot to put the word "to" in there. He seems to do this all the time. He really is so totally upset about the January 6th committee being beyond his grasp. And to this day, he still talks about them destroying information when there wasn't any destruction. He should be made to read all the transcripts and watch all the videos.
He talks a good long time about all the terrible things Mayorkas, did and then tells Kristi Noem to look into it.
A reporter than quizzes him about the Medicaid cuts and how 11.8 million people are going to lose their coverage, and if they were all about waste, fraud and abuse?
Trump: No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's going to be a much smaller number than that, and that number will be waste, fraud and abuse. And if you look, they took a much more liberal stance on the Medicaid situation than they could have.
Trump has absolutely no clue that millions will lose their healthcare. If you're starting it 11.8 million, how much smaller are those numbers going to be? It's still going to be millions of people. Millions of people are not gaming the system. Is he blissfully ignorant, or is this still more trickle-down cruelty?
The reporter doesn't let up.
Reporter: What number is that. What analysis are you seeing?
Trump: I'm not seeing a number, but I know it's much less than the number you gave. And we were very, very cognizant of three things : Social Security, we're going to take care of it beautifully, Medicare and Medicaid. And we are going to save it whereas the Democrats are going to --- you won't have it, they will destroy Medicare and Medicaid, and they don't have to because their numbers don't work.
I am thoroughly confused. What numbers don't work? He's not seeing a number because he has no clue. He has no comprehension or understanding of the people that will be kicked off of their healthcare. He still thinks he's doing the right thing. No one is going to tell him different.
He gets quizzed about farm workers and people working in hotels and he says that he got 92% of the farmer vote and he's going to do something very special for them.
Trump: We're going to put them in responsible --- and have --- we are going to issue a form of a card or document, and the farmer is going to be responsible for those people. They're not going to get citizenship, but they'll be working, they'll be paying taxes.
Right. A card or a document. It's certainly not going to be the $5 million dollar gold card. Basically, he's saying to let them go on doing what they're already doing. Which is working and paying taxes. He has no clue as to what he's saying.
He goes on and on about farmers and they have a strong guy and they work for years and some went bankrupt. Gibberish.
I could skip over this, but a reporter asks the very question I wanted to about the location of Alligator Alcatraz being in the Everglades and pollution. But then he goes off course completely and shows that he still can't understand what the question was.
Reporter: Thank you. Mr. President, how do you respond to critics that fear that a 3000 bed detention center and the waste that that could produce will pollute the surrounding federal protected land, including land that both administrations have spent billions restoring?
Trump: Well, I was one of those that invested billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of dollars right here in the Meadowlands, but --- and the Meadowlands, too, in New York, if you look at what we did up there. Speaking of the Meadowlands, a lot of places like this, but this is a very unique one. One thing I'll say about this land, we'll be gone in a million years, and this land is still going to be here.
There is a sports complex in New Jersey called the Meadowlands, and an eastern part of New Jersey which is wetlands, is referred to as the Meadowlands. Nothing in New York. Still another sign. And he's talking about the land being unique and he's destroying it at the same time with Alligator Alcatraz. And then he doesn't hold much hope for the entire human race because we're going to be gone in a million years. Also he says he invested money right here in the Everglades, calling them the Meadowlands. He is totally out of it.
After getting a question about Zohran Mamdani and trash talking him for a good long while:
Trump: ...But right now he's a communist. That's not a socialist. I've always said we will not have socialism in this country. And the speeches, I said --- well, they skipped socialism and you got a lot of them like that. And you see AOC, she's out there with her bad IQ. She's out there ranting and raving about how wonderful he is, and look, so far he's winning.
Zohran is a communist but it's socialism that Donald won't allow in the country. Communism is okay, I guess. Just more jumbled gibberish.
Trump: ... you have an independent, Mayor Adams, who's a very good person. I helped him out a little it. He had a problem and he was unfairly hurt over this question. He made a statement to the effect that this is terrible.
Trump helped him out more than a little bit. Trump just confessed to another crime. Mayor Adams was charged with corruption by the Department of Justice, but it just happened to go away.
A reporter made the mistake of asking Trump what would be the next campaign promise that he would fulfill. What followed is too long to repeat. He goes into his trip to the Middle East and getting the bribes from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. Then it's over to Nato and getting them to to commit to 5% of GDP for defense. And then it's we were a dead country and now we're the hottest country. And then the way to get things done is to get rid of rules and regulations. He never answers the question. Actually, it's something we'd like to know about.
Then it's the old song and dance about the shower head that goes drip, drip, drip. The water faucet where nothing comes out. The restrictions that Joe Biden put on showers, sinks, toilets and washing machines.
Trump: The washing machine, they give you like a quarter of a bottle to do your clothing and people need 10 of these bottles. And the people came to me from Whirlpool, and they said we can't make a machine that's competitive. We can't make a machine, it just doesn't work. Why? They don't let us use the water. Do you have any problems with water? No, we have so much water we don't know to what to do with it. You know that it comes from heaven, right?
Then, you have to run your dishes 10 times through the dishwasher to get them clean. And then without a transition he's into plastic straws because he didn't like the ones melting in his mouth. Then he starts again at the beginning about the sinks and shower heads and faucets, and then back to the clothes and dishwashers.
The man cannot keep a coherent train of thought. He talks about gas prices, food prices and of course eggs.
Trump: A simple word like that, groceries, it was like almost a strange word. I hadn't heard it in so long. But what could be more beautiful than the word grocery?
Donald has probably never gone grocery shopping in his life. Everything that normal people do on a normal basis he has no understanding or concept of.
Then Donald did the Q&A at the beginning of the diary. He complimented Ron DeSantis profusely over his choice of land for the detention center, recognizing that there were environmental protests about it. But, gol darn it, he knows real estate so it had to be a good choice. He thanked everybody and then left to get more questions before he took off in Marine One.
I rest my case. There are multiple books all covering Donald Trump's mental illness. This is more thcan that. This is a deterioration of basic brain functions. Cognitive decline. Dementia. Maybe even Alzheimer's.
This is what, not who, we have leading our country. But, leading our country into what?
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