Host raises Trump 'cognitive decline' after ex-president forgets talk he had weeks prior
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SiriusXM Progress host Michelangelo Signorile is questioning Donald Trump's "cognitive decline" after he appears to have forgotten a potential nominee for Treasury Secretary. Trump spoke with Bloomberg earlier this month and agreed that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon could be a potential candidate f...

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SiriusXM Progress host Michelangelo Signorile is questioning Donald Trump’s “cognitive decline” after he appears to have forgotten a potential nominee for Treasury Secretary.

Trump spoke with Bloomberg earlier this month and agreed that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon could be a potential candidate for the position.

The reporter at Bloomberg asked the question twice whether Dimon would be a candidate for Treasury Secretary, and Trump said that “he is somebody that I would consider, sure.”

“He [Dimon] was at the [GOP] meeting.”

In a post on Truth Social this week, Trump denied he commented.

"I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury,” Trump said. Fink is the CEO of the BlackRock investment firm.

  • floofloofEnglish
    43·
    1 month ago

    “Let me just say one thing first,” Trump began. “So, I had a meeting with them. First, I had a meeting with Congress, Republican Congress. It was like a lovefest. Then, I met with them and the US Senate, which was all Republicans, 49. And it was also a lovefest, but my best meeting of the three (sic) was with the executives. And Biden’s misinformation — people put out a thing: Oh, he went on, he rambled. There was no rambling. This, you could say, this is rambling, but in order to get to the point, you have to, you know, this is a very complex subject, that a lot of people, most people don’t understand. But I just wanted to say, that that was the best meeting. They loved it. They were happy with.”

    How can anyone can listen to him and not think, “This is just a torrent of nonsense”?

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
      14·
      1 month ago

      Having interacted with a number of Trump supporters over the years, they legitimately talk nonsense like this daily. This is nothing new. If anything, it makes them like him more because he’s like them, and they want to be him.

      What’s actually rare is when he insults someone and they are surprised or don’t like that he said that. But no, most supporters latch onto the phrase and repeat it themselves