'Dementia alert': Trump's bizarre 'grass' rant raises alarm

The internet piled on President Donald Trump’s suggestion to fill the nation’s parks with golf carts and Bermuda grass.

The aging president wandered into unexpected territory on Thursday while meeting with police and military personnel at his war-on-crime display in Washington , D.C.

“One of the things we are going to be redoing is your parks. … We’re going to be re-grassing all your parks, all brand new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy,” said Trump, 79, while speaking at the U.S. Park Police’s Anacostia Operations Facility the self-proclaimed turf whisperer continued. “It’ll look like... Trump National Golf Club.”

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Trump insisted he’s “very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being I think anywhere in the world.”

The president then pressed on about the perceived soul of good turf. “Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass has a life,” he said, lamenting that: “The grass here died about 40 years ago.”

Social media appeared to stare quizzically at the demonstration, or it panicked.

“Dementia alert!” shouted one commenter on X, while another proclaimed: “Not certain wtf is happening at this point, but everything has gone from lunacy to completely nuts.”

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“Has Trump completely lost his mind?” asked another.

One commenter’s post on the event drew almost 2,000 comments of its own, and nearly 5,000 “likes” by early Friday, with one respondent saying, “For the love of God, could someone please unplug and replug in America? We need a reboot badly.”

“The ‘Lawn and Order’ President. What a f—— moron,” said still another critic.

There are more than 30 national parks located in D.C. alone, including Smithsonian Ground, all maintained by the National Park Service. However, Trump told law enforcement in attendance on Thursday that he would be revamping parks quickly.

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“We’re going to be rebuilding all of your parks and it’s gonna happen fast, it’s gonna go up like a miracle, so you do the job on safety and I’ll get this place fixed up physically,” he told them.

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