A former GOP operative flagged how Trump's latest speech showed that his health has clearly diminished.
During an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, Rick Wilson pointed out the signs of Trump's physical decline that showed during his Thursday night speech.
"I've been an anthropologist of Trump for over a decade," Wilson said. "He did not read that speech, and I don't even think he, in a lot of ways, can internalize large complex speeches anymore."
Wilson explained that Trump appeared to be reading from a teleprompter the whole way. Looking at Trump's eyes during the speech, Wilson noted how "you could see the reading back and forth" because "he had not read that speech, had not internalized it."
That wasn't all that caught Wilson's attention. Trump "was clinging to that podium for dear life," Wilson continued. "His mouth was dry. He was huffing when he was going through the speech."
Trump is "running on empty," he said.
"If you were a person who actually cared about Donald Trump, you'd say, 'Hey, let's get you a couple days off,'" Wilson said. "'Let's get you to the doctor.'"
However, "no one does" actually care about Trump, Wilson said. Even if anyone did care, "that physicality of Trump, the decline is so marked that people almost lose track of it," Wilson said.
"The guy from 2015 and 16 had this sort of swagger, big burly physical presence on the stages and loomed behind Hillary [Clinton] and Jeb [Bush]," Wilson remembered. "That guy's gone. He's a very physically diminished man. He's a very, very physically diminished man."