Hercules56
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Since they can't bring in notes and can't consult with campaign staff during the two commercial breaks, Trump is going to have to rely on his knowledge of the issues and facts and use his 'amazing' memory.
He's screwed.
According to Ramin Setoodeh, who interviewed Trump post-presidency six times for his book "Apprentice in Wonderland," said Trump has severe short-term memory problems.
From audio of his interviews with Trump:
Rivers died in Sept. 2014, two years before the 2016 election.
Trump on why he had to finish up the interview:
This was after he'd left office and had not been granted access to intelligence briefings as other former presidents had. So what did he think he had to do with "the Afghanistan"?
Setooday had interviewed Trump several times starting in 2004, so he had a good foundation for being able to compare Trump's cognitive abilities from 20 years ago to now. He said that Trump is 'stuck' in The Apprentice where he's still the star and talked at times as if it were in the present and spoke in the present tense as if he was doing more shows and "playing the character". He said that Trump's memory of what he did in The Apprentice was "much stronger than what he did in the White House. He stumbled with the chronology of what he did in the White House. He stumbled with the chronology of recent events. He stumbled in terms of what happened in terms of our interviews when we spoke back to bac to back. He couldn't remember talking to me between our first and second conversations. His short term memory was very foggy and he had issues remebering things."
Setoodey said Trump was not interested in speaking about what he'd accomplished legislatively while POTUS or about governing, but only about the Covid vaccine and how it saved lives and how "cool it was that he could get someone on the phone almost immediately," after seeing someone on TV he wanted to speak to.
Trump also spoke about how he wished he'd run against Obama in 2012 because he could have beat him.
Setoodey says Trump wants to be loved and admired like Obama.
Trump will do his best to stick to his usual script:
"Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. Illegals, crime, Muslims, wall, Muslims, Israel, wall, weapons, Russia Russia Russia".
Thats it.