Donald Trump, Obscene Rhetoric, Increasingly Bizarre Behavior and the Serious and Dangerous Realities of Mental Illness!

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis
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4 min readOct 21, 2024

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To those of you who have been avid followers of Donald Trump, you will notice that his public appearances follow a typical direction. He has a speech in mind that he intends to deliver with the help of a teleprompter, but instead of successfully completing his initial or intended thoughts, he eventually resorts to rambling and discussing odd, bizarre thoughts about all sorts of topics. To put it bluntly, the former president has increasingly spouted rhetoric that is nonsensical and incoherent.

MSNBC columnist Zeeshan Aleem convincingly stated that, “Trump has been embedded in the public consciousness as a rule-breaker for so long that it can be easy to forget how far he is from fulfilling the basic requirement of a politician to speak clearly. Trump’s speeches seem to be growing more discursive and difficult to comprehend by the day.” New York Times op-ed writer Jamelle Bouie similarly stated that Trump is unable “not just to speak truthfully about a topic, but speak coherently about any topic . . . Trump hasn’t just deteriorated, he’s clearly cognitively impaired, and it is bizarre to me that this isn’t just a major story.” Just recently, as MSNBC’s anchor Chris Hayes commented, “It is a little weird that ‘age concerns’ have disappeared as a…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Written by Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.