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Gupta: It’s clear that there’s age-related cognitive decline. His response to somebody fainting in the Oval Office really conveyed that — he was slow to respond, and that slowness and fatigue you’re seeing more and more in his public events. He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of...

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Gupta: He’s the president, so let’s hope he’s getting the care that he needs. He does have a family history, importantly, of age-related dementia. His father had age-related cognitive decline… There’s a symmetry between some of these earlier signs in his case and what his father went through. But what are we seeing? Word-finding difficulties. Inattention—he loses his train of thought. Everybody is describing these speeches as meandering, covering 30 different topics in the course of, say, two minutes. He’s meandering. That’s inattention. Clear inability to express his own thoughts. Difficulty completing a sentence. Tangential speech. Of course, memory issues. He doesn’t know that he’s talking about Greenland even over the course of a sentence and confuses it with Iceland. When we think about his behavior, you know, he’s always been off-the-cuff—that’s his style—and people can say, well, that’s his style. But very serious people, from what I’ve seen on both sides of the political aisle, have called out the letter that he sent the Norwegian prime minister which also fits into these broader trends that we’re seeing that are concerning and cascading. The fact that he would even put a letter like that out in the public domain has caused a lot of alarm. Who does that? That’s not behavior that we would think meets a standard of decorum or even proper behavior. And again, I know he’s redefined the rules here, but he’s lashing out. People ask, is he showing signs of early Alzheimer’s or age-related cognitive decline? Perhaps. A lot of the symptoms we just talked about are consistent with those diagnoses. Again, we’re just observing what we’re seeing. Frontotemporal dementia—acting out, behavior changes, lashing out, acting unreasonable. One could say this is his core personality based on what we’ve seen over his entire adult life, but it’s getting worse. A lot of folks have pointed to that letter to the Norwegian prime minister as deserving a more thorough, transparent public assessment of his neurologic fitness, because that felt like it crossed the line of proper adult behavior. So I do agree—there’s been a trend line here. It seems like it’s getting worse across the dimensions we just talked about. And we haven’t even talked about his gait and what looks like psychomotor performance—his ability to walk down the steps of Air Force One or across a red carpet. He does seem to be walking gingerly. Hard to know what to make of that. But when you couple that with all these other signs of cognitive performance, it makes one wonder what’s actually happening behind the scenes.

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Shapiro: When you have a president who is focused on making money for himself, that corruption leaves us all worse off because it means he’s picking favorites not based on what benefits the American people, but on what benefits him and his children. He’s picking sides in battles that ultimately are un-American because he’s putting his own profiteering ahead of the needs of the American people. That’s point one: his corruption has a real cost to the American people. Point two, though, is that what he’s doing seemingly is totally protected because the Supreme Court of the United States made one of its worst decisions, really over the last century, to give this president absolute and total immunity. And so he feels like he can do anything. So while he sits in that gilded Oval Office, he’s not focused on solving your problems, getting you health care, putting a roof over your head, or driving down your costs. Instead, he’s focused on trying to figure out how he can make a buck for himself and his family. And that is at odds with meeting the needs of the American people. So the first thing is his corruption has a cost to you, and the second thing is his corruption has been enabled by this Supreme Court, which has given him absolute and total immunity. That’s why we need real reform. That’s why we need anti-corruption laws at the federal level. I could make an argument that we need a 28th Amendment to our Constitution to bake in some stricter guardrails to protect the American people from a president of the United States who lacks integrity, ethics, and honor the way this president does. I think everything needs to be on the table. We need real reform.

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Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere—they all do the same stuff. And so Trump having the worst approval ratings in his first 100 days in office of any American president in the history of polling—that’s a really important story. Trump facing demonstrations, large and small, every single day of the week in every state in the country—that’s a huge part of how we measure the temperature of the American people in response to him. And on the issue of immigrants—his chosen, his favorite scapegoat—his two favorites are immigrants and trans people. When you see the way the American people—in red states, blue states, rural America, cities, everywhere—have recoiled against the performative cruelty that Trump has demonstrated, particularly toward immigrants, I think that is not something he was counting on. I think it’s absolutely a limiting factor in what he’s going to be able to accomplish—both in his attempted overthrow and in more traditional political terms. And I just don’t think there’s anything more important than that in the country. I mean, seeing people in Tuscaloosa, Alabama—in Katie Phang’s hometown—seeing people in Boise, Idaho, in small-town Indiana, stand up and say, “Give him back. Hey, are you going to send that guy back to El Salvador? Are you really going to send that guy back? Hey, due process!”—that matters. They were really counting on the American people having a kind of bloodlust—about immigrants, about nonwhite people generally, and immigrants in particular. And the American people don’t have that bloodlust. In fact, what they have is empathy. What they have is a sense of solidarity. And a willingness to stand up, to hold signs, to shake their fists, and to tell people to do the right thing. And that—that’s going to be the story of this time in American history.

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