Mary Trump shared her theories after a series of incidents involving her uncle and female journalists

In the most recent incident Thursday, the president lashed out at a journalist who asked him about the D.C shooting suspect, asking if she was a “stupid person”.

Just one day before, Mary Trump had addressed her uncle’s previous run-ins with female reporters on her show, Mary Trump Live.

“His misogynistic attacks against reporters in particular are increasing and that means a couple of things,” she said. “It means that he’s increasingly comfortable lodging such attacks,” she continued, before reeling off a list of targeted groups. “There’s no hiding it anymore.”

The president’s niece also theorised that the sharp rebukes he delivers when questioned could be a sign that the pressure is getting to him in his second term.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    1 day ago

    Two possibilities:

    Dementia removes verbal “filters.”

    Aging causes atrophy of the brain, particularly the frontal lobes first, and those (like teens who haven’t fully developed myelination of the frontal lobes) are the filters for impulsiveness and risk taking.

    So he says and does stupid shit because the filters are breaking down.

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Good demo let’s put a limit to the president’s age. Let’s put it at 75 on your 1st or 2nd term. The president of the united States cannot be 75 by his or her 1st or 2nd term’s end.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        16 hours ago

        Only if something like that were to be re-evaluated every single year, because I don’t want our rules to be cast in the past when new breakthroughs come. We see how long we’ve been saddled with the atrocious EC, I don’t want our country to be held back by some anachronistic rules around age that get invalidated by science…

        A far better option might be to have to pass more stringent evaluations (and not just naming an animal, FFS) prior to assuming office.

        • altphoto@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          16 hours ago

          Why 75? Well because that’s a reasonable age to expect a person to still be able to fly around and help out. 75 gives you basically 10 years after retirement. So you can be retired, old and bring that game to the table. You gotta be at least 35 because younger people might be too crazy for the position. So 75 also rules out crazy people… dementia people. At 75 you won’t be easily abused and persuaded by other’s ideas without your 2 cents…2 nickels on the topic. (A retard president got rid of the cents because he hasn’t read books on what happens when you do that. Devaluation). 75 is a good age to get the fuck out of politics please! No falling asleep during important meetings like our current retard does. Just go fly kites with your niece or go read some books when you wait for Mr. Ripper. At 75, you’ve done more than anyone else, why should you also get to run the presidency. Etc etc.

          We should also have a wartime president team rather than hold all the eggs on one basket case. Like 5 people. Each goes to a different part of the country and communicates daily. The goal always being pace rather than continuous war. Once pace comes back we go back to one person. We can vote to see who did best.

          • Honytawk@feddit.nl
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            6 hours ago

            75 is too old, their policies won’t affect themselves anymore.

            How about the retirement age instead?

            That way they can only hold power by increasing the retirement age, and get killed in the riots that follow.

            • altphoto@lemmy.today
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              4 hours ago

              I totally forgot. Yeah, at 75 they can kill tge department of education or healthcare and it won’t matter to them a single bit.

              Retirement age sounds interesting yes. So they retire us at 64 because we’re basically useless. So then why are presidents older than 64 not useless? Okay they’re not? Let’s then set retirement to 74…riots! Sounds like a good control system.

              Our government books will have to say…there are 4 branches of government, the executive(Orange fuck), the judicial(supreme tennis court), the legislative(congress taking your rights) and the people (riots). I had not noticed how the people are not part of the government. We should be.