This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/16/opinion/trump-cognitive-decline-press-republicans/) reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)
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> Asked at an economic forum in New York what specific legislation he would back to make child care more affordable, Trump rambled incomprehensibly for nearly two minutes without answering the question.

> I&#039;m not a doctor, but in a report for STAT, several cognitive experts who have studied Trump&#039;s speaking patterns over the court of several years say his disjointed way of jumping from one subject to another - called tangentiality - and his increasing reliance on superlatives and absolute terms are consistent with several causes of cognitive decline.

> Much of the press is doing the American people a disservice by treating Trump&#039;s obvious cognitive slippage as just &quot;Trump being Trump."


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