Former President Donald Trump's half-hour music break in the middle of a town hall event isn't normal, argued former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) on MSNBC Tuesday — rather, he said, it is a clear sign of cognitive decline.
Trump has tried to play the event off as a fun time — but, said Rose, he isn't fooling anyone.
"The age issue damaged President Biden before he got out of the race," noted host Ana Cabrera. "Could this attack line hurt Trump in the same way down this home stretch?"
Rose concurred with this assessment. All that makes it different, he argued, is that while Biden scrupulously and consciously tried to prove his fitness to continue the campaign for weeks before agreeing to drop out, "I don't think Donald Trump is hiding much. Look, you have to be demented to stand on stage and start dancing when it's a town hall."
"We have two sides of Donald Trump right now," said Rose. "One, we have just this grave threat to all that we hold dear, our Constitution, our democracy" — but simultaneously, he added, "the principle driving force of his incompetency is the fact that he is not all there.
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"He's a couple fries short of a Happy Meal at this point. And that's why he's standing up there, dancing to the YMCA, can barely do the YMCA if you actually check out the video. And so this is a story in a video. You don't have to listen to his words, and it's just imperative at this point that the campaign pushes those two separate narratives. Grave threat and also just supremely incompetent and entering the final stages of his life."
"You know, I feel bad for his family right now," Rose continued. "I know so many people that have to deal with their parents as they have gone through stages of dementia, and that's clearly what they're on the precipice of having to deal with now, but he certainly should go nowhere near the Oval Office."
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