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Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2025

Trump has shown erratic and bizarre behavior throughout the year, leading to questions about his mental acuityIn an address from the White House in De...

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Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2025 Trump has shown erratic and bizarre behavior throughout the year, leading to questions about his mental acuityIn an address from the White House in December, Donald Trump claimed that, over the past 11 months, his administration had brought “more positive change” than any government in US history.“There has never been anything like it,” Trump added.America is respected again as a country.

We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day.

Every day, the guy’s falling down stairs.”I said: ‘It’s not our president. We can’t have it.’ I’m very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs for – like I’m on stairs, like these stairs, I’m very – I walk very slowly.

Nobody has to set a record, just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.We don’t want that.

Need to walk nice and easy. You not have – you don’t have to set any record.

Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don’t, don’t bop down the stairs. That’s the one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen – da da da da da da, bop, bop, bop, he’d go down the stairs, wouldn’t hold on.

I said, it’s great, I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen and it only takes once, but he did a lousy job as president.” Continue reading… Read full article


Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-mental-health-speech-address-2025-review

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Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2025
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