Trump refuses to accept he's not running against Biden anymore

He probably literally can't. Like MAYBE if his staff hangs around with a cattle prod and teleprompter maybe they can hide it for a while but dementia patients often can't retain new information, they circle back again and again to whatever knowledge/memories that were locked in before their deterioration stepped up to their current slope downwards.
I wouldn't be surprised it this is a huge part of why they're panicking so desperately. This is cataclysmic and I can't wait to watch it unfold
- Something tells me that if Biden, Hillary and Obama were to start stumping for Harris and the media covered it, Trump would have no idea who he was actually facing in the election. There's no way his handlers would be able to keep him focused.
  
  It would be a pleasant alternate reality if some reporter who was doing an interview with Trump would start giving him a cognitive test live on air.
  You wouldn’t have to make it formal. Just ask a few questions about Obama, get him talking about Obama’s policies, maybe the Iran nuclear deal. And then suddenly ask, “Who’s your opponent, Donald?” Soft and friendly like a serial killer. “Who are you running against in this election?”
  “What year is it, Donald? What’s the day of the week?”
  “Who’s this, Donald?” and put up a picture of Nikki Haley.
  “What year did Covid happen, Donald? Can you remember?”
  Give him lots of long silences to try to figure the answers out. Don’t interrupt, don’t distract him, don’t move on. Just let the dead air play out until he can’t stand it and says something. But if it’s not the answer… ask again. Tell him it’s okay if he doesn’t remember, but you want to give him another try.
  Before you do it, set up his mic all tangled and firmly fastened, so if he tries to stand up and leave, he can’t get it off, and keep the camera running while he struggles. Keep asking questions while he’s trying to free himself. Politely and calmly, but don’t stop.
  
  It would be hilarious if all three showed up at the debate location (if it even happens) to show support to Harris, I think the orange man would blue screen. :-D
- It took him years to get over Clinton. He's got 4 months now, and Biden is still President so he's gonna have an even tougher time trying to keep it straight in his dementia-riddled mind.
- It was also visible in the debate. They told him "whatever question comes up, bring up immigrants". If Trump had been forced to actually answer any of the questions, his dementia would have been much more obvious.
- ...teleprompter....
  Speaking of which:
  Wasn't there something about Trump's wound being the result of a bullet-shattered teleprompter, not an actual bullet?
  What became of that? Not to minimize the heinousness of the act, but he didn't take a bullet...
  
  It was speculated on, but it turns out that he was indeed hit with a bullet and the teleprompter wasn’t even damaged.
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-hit-with-a-bullet-glass-from-teleprompter-did-not-injure-trump/ar-BB1qaE1H
  
  I never heard anything about that, but to the "never took a bullet," comment, I believe that's technically true.
  I'm somewhat of an expert in things that go super sonic. While i haven't seen an image of the damaged ear, the images I saw on the day it happened don't indicate the bullet actually hit him. His ear would be way more mangled. The damage to his ear was likely caused by the sonic shock wave off the bullet.
- My 2x great aunt just died from dementia yesterday. And well Trump is showing the same traits she had a couple months ago.
  
  When people die from dementia, what is the actual organic cause or death? Lile does their heart stop, infection, etc?
  Also, how much longer would you give him?
- the best part is that they have absolutely no one who could come close to being a match for harris, if the worst (best) were to happen and trump croaks before the election
- I guess they were soooo lucky it was the same two candidates as 2020 so they could just rehash it all again.
  
  Almost can't believe "our" luck heh

Refusing to acknowledge reality is a common theme for maga.
- Lot of overlap there.
- They all cheered at the convention when someone said Obama is secretly still in control of the WhiteHouse.
  The RNC is basically the party of conspiracy theories through and through.
  
  I'm remembering a trump tweet while he was in the white house complaining about the deep state doing something and all I could think is "You're the freaking president, you are the deepstate you bafoon!"
- Personality Disorders helps too

This is so tiresome and annoying. His “bad” nickname for her is “smiling Kamala”. Really? That’s your big bad criticism?
I guess the unsmiling misery of the last 8 is supposed to be status quo now?
- People will hear how he describes it and then see her and realize it isn't crazy at all, it's really friendly and welcoming. You can tell she's really excited and enthusiastic about the job she has ahead of her.
  
  She's just imagining all the Venn diagrams she'll have to work with.
- Trump's nicknames have always been at a fourth grade level. It appeals to people who don't read higher than a fourth grade level.

How soon until he refers to Harris as "Hillary" or his other nemesis "Nancy"?
- Hell he might throw a Niki in there! This whole situation has taken me from being low key terrified to can't wait for what next.
  
  So many N words for him to choose from...

Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that complete a coherent sentence is once again showing he's too old to run our great country. He needs to step down, it's embarrassing.
- Don't forget he likes to look at all the little bodies. Having been the owner of some miss USA pagents his time was always known as the creepy don days.

He's too senile to change tactics. I'm willing to bet half the reason he chose Vance was because they knew he was going to screw up and say Pence a bunch, and the similarity of pronunciation would give them plausible deniability.
- Omg that makes total sense!

“Tomorrow trump will wake up and forget biden even dropped out!” - dementia addled trump
- Every accusation is a confession, after all.

They also don’t know the difference between socialism and communism. His voters are morons.
- Think of how stupid the average conservative is then remember half of them are stupider than that.
  
  Goddamn, this ruined my day more than it should have.
- They have two brain cells fighting for third place. That bulb is just bright enough to follow their orders from fox "news".
- They don't even know the difference between Liberalism and Communism!
- They don't even understand the difference between neoliberalism and communism lol

He looks... tired.
- "Don't you think he looks tired?"
  
  Headcanon: Trump is a Slitheen.
- He should be retired
  
  He looks expired.

Good, good, keep running against the wrong guy. Your dumb cultists will stay enraged, as you like them, but those who are possible to actually reach might be turned off by it.

Why would he? In his fantasy world, Biden is his easy opponent, he's perfectly innocent and not a convicted criminal at all, he is actually the smartest person alive, instead of just the smartest person he's ever been. Why would he join us in reality when his imaginary happy place that's shared by millions of FOX viewers is so much more attractive?
- just the smartest person he's ever been
  He's not even that. His brain is clearly deteriorating.
  
  Good luck trying to convince his brain that.
- Biden is his easy opponent
  Was he though? Maybe now but he did win in 2020…
  
  Trump seems to think so, considering how he's already finding excuses why he can't debate her. And not just like he was preemptively finding excuses for losing before the last debate.
  This time he's crapping his pants because Biden's style was politely waiting his turn until Trump finished and then presenting his version of one of the 50 false statements Trump had delivered in rapid-fire mode before.
  So far, Harris gives the impression that she'll go straight for Trump's felones.

Trump would be crazy to try and debate her.
So, he probably will. Good times.
- No he won't. He's already doing a cop out saying he will only debate her if Fox hosts and moderates.. Which I believe is impossible since the agreed networks (one of them isn't Fox) have already been agreed
  
  Fox is also an entertainment network, not a news network, as they themselves have claimed.
  
  It's ABC hosting. What the hell is going to make that happen?
- No way his handlers let him
- Oh, he'll debate her eventually and it'll be a slaughter and they'll claim victory. Play that's the end of the similarities of 2012.

I wish they'd stop using pics of dementia donnie with the maxi pad on his ear. The less we are reminded about another Republican trying to take this clown out, the better.
- It's like some kind of badge of honor in his eyes. See, he survived a shooting! Why can't those dang kids survive. For anyone that needs this /s
  
  Meanwhile, the FBI are saying it probably wasn't even a bullet that hit him.
  
  An ear wound isn’t a strong image though. If he got shot in the chest, yes that would look “manly”. I don’t see the ear wrapper and think, wow, what a survivor.
- The us media corporations are gonna try their best still to get him elected.
  I think it's fucking hilarious myself. It's like a toddler getting a bandaid for a boo boo
  
  Trump is just a giant baby. Real tough people, wouldn't have giant bandage on their ears.
- The problem is it's surgically attached to his ear now. It would be dishonest to just use old pictures...

Sometimes, when people get older, they get a little confused. It happens. Donald, he's getting up there, and maybe he's just feeling a little confused again. Like that time he mixed up Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi.
Maybe he should drop out of the race, let someone a little younger and more aware take over.
- Awareness is in very short supply on the right at the moment.
- Yes, but I do wonder if he did step down would the GOP recieve the same invigoration the Dems appear to be receiving from a different contender.
  
  I don't think he can because the RNC already happened making him the party's nomination. The DNC hasn't happened yet so the Democrats were able to switch candidates before they meet to nominate.
  https://ballotpedia.org/ State laws and party rules on replacing a presidential nominee, 2024
  
  zero change considering the republican party is trump's party after everyone but the trump cult fled.
  
  I was mostly just mocking him, but to take your question seriously... I don't know. I don't think it would help the GOP at this point, since Vance would most likely get the nomination, as Trump's running-mate.
  I don't think anyone else in the party can draw nearly the same support as Trump, either. Not in the party itself, or from the broader American electorate. Nikki Haley was the only candidate that could possibly do that, but Haley being handed the nomination at the 11th hour would be seen as a Deep-State RINO coup against the dear leader, so she'd loose the base.
  I think it'd also depend somewhat on the nature of his leaving the race. If he was successfully assassinated, that would likely turn the whole election on it's head. Not necessarily in a way that would get Vance elected, but it would change the dynamics, and the electoral math, in ways we can't predict. We thought the shooting would hand Trump the Presidency, but nobody even cared. Who knows what would happen if that shot was a couple inches closer. If Trump got sick, injured, or had some sort of catastrophic performance like Biden at the debate? I don't think that would help the GOP in November, either.
  As for him willingly stepping down, as Biden did, for the good of the nation... Lol, no. He's not doing that.
  Edit: minor grammar corrections.
- Unlike the Democrats who had not yet put forth a candidate, the GOP has officially nominated theirs. The Democrats could turn the tables and get a successor off the ballots

Step 1: Denial
How long before his old brain processes all the stages of grief?
- Fornever
  
  Covfefe

He so old, he must be confused

Old Sleepy Don rambles incoherently about those competent presidents, Obama and Biden, even if they aren't running. We need a debate ASAP to see how Harris chews Old Don Poorleone up and spits him out.

Too demented to remember. Sad. Big sad

He hasn't figured it out yet..
He's too old to comprehend

Cool. Keep fighting ghosts.

Trump refuses to accept reality?

It's sad to see such a delusional old man...

So the argument is that Joe should stay the candidate because he is so senile he didn't know he dropped out of the race?

Donnie the Dotard doesn't know what's going on.

I don't think it's too far fetched at all to entertain the idea that Biden didn't catch COVID, that the story was fabricated to allow a clean transition to a new candidate. The magnitude of lie and manipulation isn't shit relative their other tactics.
If one assumes all politicians are selfish, evil liars until proven otherwise and understands the processes of the system then one can often predict the future. And, most everyone will hate them for it until they're dead.
- Every word out of the farting orange clown's mouth is a lie and your panties are in a bunch over whether or not Biden has/had COVID? The guy lied for 4 god damned years about an election being stolen. You're worried about the reason he dropped out of a race that everyone said he was too old for in the first place so he could transition the job smoothly? Lol.
  The magnitude of the lie? Hahahah. Jesus.
  Dude, you really gotta take a step back and rethink your life and get some perspective. You're gonna be one of those "hustlers"/"go-hards" that works 40 years for the same company at the same position without taking a sick day or vacation day. When you retire instead of a bonus or lifetime recognition award they're gonna give you the same company branded coffee mug and lens cleaner rag they give out at trade shows.
  
  Spot on - those lense cleaner rags aren’t going to give themselves away.
  
  This is called a red herring.
- Why do people love conspiratorial thinking so much? Do you know how many people would have to be in on this? And how many you'd have to trust not to blab? And how hard it would be for them to keep a huge secret? Even if you were right about predicting the future (and you're not), someone would have to gamble on all of this. You ever notice how with very few exceptions crazy shit like this doesn't fail and come out - which statistically should happen all the fucking time unless everyone is supremely competent.
  Sorry, friend, but no this is completely far fetched and if you'd ever worked for the government you'd fall over laughing at the idea. If anyone was this good, they sure as hell don't work for the government.
  
  Human minds evolved to spot patterns. This was very useful for identifying predators and prey back in the savannas of Africa.
  Now people can put a pizza in the oven and use that powerful pattern matching to imagine incredibly stupid bullshit like this guys take above.
  
  Why do people love conspiratorial thinking so much?
  Because the well reasoned ones are often proven true in a few decades. During Trump we had truth in months. But, typically the President can follow the script.
  Do you know how many people would have to be in on this?
  Four: controller, media content, doctor, and spouse.
  Do you know how easy it is to deceive the masses? Neolibs aren't nearly as far ahead of the MAGA cult as they like to believe.
- Its also not too far fetched for him to catch covid. I've caught it twice in the last 12 months despite boosters and meeting much less people and being responsible. For me, it was a sniffle, for him probably a good deal worse and he might have realise his physical fitness is worse than he thought, especially after the debate and the reaction to it. Nothing like some illness to show us were not infallible, even when potus.
  
  Its also not too far fetched for him to catch covid.
  I agree. My point is that humans greatly overestimate that which favors themselves. We don't know the truth. We may never. And, the masses are severely underestimating the probability that it's one big lie.
  It's not that I don't care about you personally. But, your personal anecdote is far from the data required to back your claim. I'm not asking you to dig up data. I already know the media isn't reporting the epidemic anymore. It just doesn't make much sense to support your statement in that way.
- The broader public don't care. Biden could have dropped out because his ice cream was too cold and people would be cool with it.
  
  They'd hated the idea of him stepping down. Now they love it.
  They care. And, it's about good and wholesome things. But, they haven't yet reasoned out how effectively act upon it.
- Don't care, Biden's out.
- ^ bruh hasn’t heard that trump already picked a running mate.