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5. Joy Reid Questions Trump’s Mental State

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In 2023, she discussed the GOP debate with her MSNBC colleagues when the conversation segued to Trump’s mental state. 

She said, “No one is really talking about it, people talk about it with Biden, but Trump thinks that he ran against Barack Obama. Trump is not always sure where he is.”

During his second presidential run, Trump mistook Biden for former President Barack Obama as he was attempting to take shots at Biden. President Joe Biden’s mental abilities at the time raised concerns as well. People noticed that Biden would sometimes not complete his sentences. Or he would repeat himself in public engagements leaving supporters to wonder if he was capable of being president a second term. 

But to Reid, Trump was not exempt from this same concern. 

“There is this sort of—the Biden conversation about his age is a tad about Trump, Trump is only three years younger,” she said.

“And Trump is arguably not all there. Not there even the way he was even in 2016. His lack of ability to sort of get through a sentence, he slurs his words. There’s a lot there. If one of these candidates wanted to try to take him down, if they had the political skill, I don’t know if any of them have the political skill, there’s so much there that it actually is political malpractice that they’re not even trying.”

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