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Declining Donald Claims Nonexistent ‘Audience’ At Last Week’s Debate ‘Went Crazy’

Proving once again that he’s in serious mental decline, failed former president Donald Trump claimed Wednesday evening during an appearance on Fox News that the “audience” at last week’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris “went crazy” when he was fact-checked my moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Speaking with Fox host Greg Gutfeld, Mediaite notes, Trump remarked, “And they didn’t correct her once. And they corrected me, everything I said, practically. I think nine times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely– they went crazy.”

There was no studio audience at the debate. Just Trump, Harris, and the moderators.

Trump’s latest gaffe led to a larger discussion Thursday on “Morning Joe,” with co-host Joe Scarborough commenting, “Well, I mean, yeah. You know, the stagehands were going crazy.”

“What debate is he talking about?” Mika Brzezinski asked.

That led MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire to remind viewers of another verbal mixup from Trump earlier in the week when the ex-president confused Afghanistan with Alaska.

“This is happening more and more for Donald Trump. Let’s remember, he is 78 years old. With so much attention on [President Joe] Biden’s age when he was still in the race, it was overlooked that Trump is just a couple years younger and just as prone, maybe more so, to these verbal slips and confusion.”

“It’s harder to pick it up from Trump sometimes because he’s so loud and has been doing this for years, so we may be numb to it,” he added. “There is a new focus here about his mental capability and fitness for office — certainly one that Democrats are pointing to. These mistakes, the mix-ups are seemingly only increasing by the day. “

When will someone drop a net over Donald Trump and put him in an assisted living facility where he belongs? He can never again be allowed to control the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and he sure as hell can’t be trusted with top-secret information. He’d probably sell it to the Russians and think he’d given it to his son Barron.

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Latest MAGA Conspiracy Theory: Harris Cheated By Wearing ‘Audio Earrings’ At Debate

As Vice President Kamala Harris noted at last night’s debate, disgraced ex-president Donald Trump lost the 2020 election in an electoral landslide and is having trouble “processing” his failure.

Donald also claims today that he doesn’t think Harris won the debate as overwhelmingly as suggested by polls and focus groups of voters.

According to some of Trump’s most fervent supporters, even if Harris was victorious on Tuesday evening, she only prevailed because she cheated, according to Newsweek, which reports that internet chatter has increased that goes like this: Harris was wearing “audio earrings” that fed her information and lines to use against Trump.

“Following yesterday’s Trump-Harris debate, there were claims on social media that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris was wearing hidden earphones disguised as pearl earrings, a tech product that does not appear to be available for purchase.”

Specifically, some MAGA faithful claim Harris wore Nova H1 audio earrings.

“An online search for the Nova H1 Audio Earrings shows that they do not currently appear to be on sale anywhere, and NOVA Products’ website redirects to another company, Icebach Sound Solutions.”

“Additionally, backers on crowdfunding site Kickstarter have left messages from over a year ago asking for delivery status of their purchased H1 earrings that supposedly never materialized. NOVA Products’ last login to Kickstarter was in May 2023.”

Well-known Trump worshiper/gadfly Laura Loomer was one of the first to spread the lie that Harris had cheated by wearing the earrings with sound devices in them, Mediaite notes.

That was all it took to send Trumpers into an online tizzy, but their fact-free posts were met with plenty of resistance. Take a look:

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Sean Hannity’s Disney-Debate Conspiracy Theory Is BEYOND Bizarre

According to Fox News host Sean Hannity, if supporters of failed former president Donald Trump are unhappy with the ABC News moderators at tonight’s presidential debate, “half the country” will engage in a boycott of ABC’s parent company, Disney, and their theme parks.

Media Matters for America reports that Hannity made his remarks Monday evening on his show, telling viewers, “Just 24 hours right now, the one and only scheduled presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will take place. You can watch it right here on Fox News Channel. But unfortunately, it is being moderated by ABC-Disney. Barring some kind of political miracle, this debate will not be fair. ABC-Disney is officially a woke, left-wing organization.”

Disney is woke and left-wing? So does that mean Mickey Mouse is a communist and Goofy is Vladimir Lenin in disguise?

That wasn’t all Hannity had to say. And the more he talked, the more absurd he got.

“Maybe Bob Iger and his left-wing heir apparent, maybe they don’t want half the country to attend their theme parks, maybe they don’t care about their tanking stock price, which is their prerogative. They’re free to make that choice, but if they are biased against Donald Trump, as they have been leading into tomorrow night, as their nightly newscast is, half the country is not going to like it one bit. They are not going to like ABC-Disney one bit either.”

Here’s the video:

Do you get the feeling that Fox is worried Trump will self-immolate on national television this evening? If he does, the only person to blame will be him. And it’s safe to assume that the Disney theme parks will be fine. After all, Walt Disney was a capitalist and the company loves turning a profit.

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Republicans Terrified Trump Will Come Across ‘Like A Lab Rat Hitting The Cocaine’ At Tuesday’s Debate

Which version of convicted felon and former president Donald Trump will show up for Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia? Will it be the one that easily won a debate with President Joe Biden in June, or will it be the undisciplined, enraged Trump who showed up for an impromptu “press conference” on Friday?

According to Republicans who spoke with Politico, an enraged and frantic Trump could doom himself and the GOP if he decides to channel his inner Mussolini and vent his spleen against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Tricia McLaughlin, who was a senior advisor to Vivek Ramaswamy, notes, “I think — I pray — he can be disciplined,” adding that if Trump feels both Harris and the moderators are against him, things could get very ugly.

“If Trump feels like he’s backed into a corner and feels like it’s three on one, that could be a problem.”

A close Trump ally who spoke confidentially suggested the disgraced ex-president has less to lose than Harris.

“Most voters have a locked-in view of Trump, so it’s not like his performance will radically change views. He just needs to not be overly aggressive and create a permission structure for swing voters fed up with the economy and the border to vote for him. The debate is far more consequential for Kamala Harris because voters don’t have a solidified view of her yet.”

Republican consultant Rob Stutzman said he’s terrified of how Trump will come across with millions of eyes on him.

“Harris will want to make personality the issue, which is hard for him to resist, but it will be a bad night for him if he falls back on hurling absurd insults at Harris.”

“She can deliver a set piece in a debate,” he continued. “Will he be able to resist taking the bait? Doubt it. He’ll more likely be like a lab rat hitting the cocaine pan instead of the food pan.”

In other words, Trump needs to be disciplined and keep himself under control. But considering that he doesn’t excel at either of those things, expect the coked-out lab rat exposing his teeth and screaming about being persecuted to be on full display.

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‘Scared To Death’ Trump Aides Accused Of ‘Hiding’ Him Since Debate

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.