Reacting to speeches Donald Trump gave over the weekend where he repeatedly slurred his words, mistook President Joe Biden for former President Barack Obama and started sentences that trailed off into silence, Trump's former communications director admitted she has seen a precipitous decline since 2016 when he was first elected.
Speaking with CNN host John Berman on Monday morning, contributor Alyssa Farah Griffin stated Trump has always had problems recalling facts or people's names, but he seems to be in a downward spiral.
'Alyssa, you worked inside the White House, you saw Donald Trump firsthand when he was four years, albeit several years younger at least. How much does he miss or mix-up facts and the like?"
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"I have said this before, he is not as sharp as he was in 2016 and not even as sharp as he was in 2020," she replied. "For some reason, that doesn't necessarily come across to voters the same way. But Donald Trump is not the strongest fighter that Republicans could have right now and it's remarkable how much voters don't see the age as also an issue because he is only three-and-a-half years younger than President Joe Biden, but there's something about the way they carry themselves that is just seen very differently."
Berman then asked Griffin to elaborate on what she meant by Trump being in decline.
"Listen, he's never been a super articulate or eloquent person," she said. "But he's consistently missing up — uh, mixing up names of heads of state. He's mixing up names like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley. I mean, this is it's gotten worse, it hasn't gotten better, he's not nearly as sharp as he was."
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