It's a dishonest tactic, and one that I'm not going to indulge in myself.
Somewhat guilty as charged, I was partly fishing a bit to see if Tom would bite - he rarely disappoints.
But I still think the way Trump phrased it was odd - why would Russia being our ally in WWII have any influence on how the West views Putin who famously wasn't alive at the time. And Trump's lack of understanding of how we could be a country's ally 80 years ago and not now is somewhat baffling.
Trump is every bit as senile as Biden was, if not more.
I'm not sure about that. Trump rambles, but he's always done that.
You look at transcripts of his speeches from 10 years ago and they make as little sense as the ones today. This from 2016, for example:
https://x.com/StigAbell/status/763075178926596096Trump isn't sharp or lucid, but by comparison he comes across as much less of a senile old man than Biden. Some of that is energy and confidence, but some of it is I think Trump is in a better cognitive place than Biden is. Obviously he's not as going to be as sharp as he was 30 years ago, no-one is as sharp in their 70s as their 40s, but I don't have big concerns about his cognitive abilities in terms of senility. My bigger issues with him are I completely disagree with his politics, he makes decisions based on gut feel rather than data and he's very transactional and easy to manipulate by flattery. He rails against "fake news" while believing and parroting right wing demonstrably false propaganda about immigrants eating pets. It's the age old trick - blame the minority group and pretend that it's those people who are causing your problems to distract you from what is actually causing the problems. He's a wannabe dictator. I think he's picked the wrong country to try it in but it beggars belief that after January 6th he managed to get elected a second time.
Fuck the Republicans for kowtowing to him rather than reigning him in.
And Fuck the Democrats for sticking with Biden for so long, lying about his clear senility and being in such a mess that there's no credible alternative to Trump right now.