In the eight days since the first presidential debate, convicted felon Donald Trump has largely been out of the public eye, making a few statements on social media, but avoiding the raucous campaign rallies that were the norm for him in 2016 and 2020.
Could it be that top aides in the Trump 2024 campaign are afraid of putting Donald back into the public spotlight because they fear he’ll make a monumental verbal gaffe?
That’s the consensus from panelists on “Morning Joe” who noted Friday that the disgraced ex-president has kept a low profile since last Thursday’s debate.
Host Joe Scarborough told Rev. Al Sharpton, “Independents actually broke away from Donald Trump toward Joe Biden; that’s how much they were turned off by seeing this guy.”
“You’ll notice, too, for all the talk about Joe Biden being hidden, 8 p.m. and all of this other stuff, you notice Donald Trump has kept his head underground politically since this debate,” he added. “His staff is scared to death of having their old man go out and say crazy things.”
Scarborough continued, “They know Donald Trump forgets if we had World War II or not, he forgets who the current president of the United States is — he thinks he is running against Barack Obama and has beaten him. He thinks he is running against Barack Obama again. Sometimes he tries to get to the end of a sentence and sort of kind of goes off into left field, into the pasture.”
“Again, they’re hiding Donald Trump right now. They don’t want Donald Trump to get behind a microphone because the less he says, the safer they believe they are.”
The majority of the chatter over the past week has been about a supposed “cognitive decline” by President Joe Biden, but the truth is that Trump is also fading mentally. And let’s not forget that Donald’s father, Fred, died from Alzheimer’s Disease, meaning that his son has a genetic predisposition for the dreaded illness.
Why is Trump remaining out of sight? Perhaps because his mental acuity is less than stellar.
