"Trump has appeared to fall asleep during some meetings; amid others, he has drifted off-topic, launching into bizarre segues on interior decor or about whales and birds. His public appearances have lacked focus, and he has used speeches to ramble about how Barack Obama walks down stairs, or to invent stories about the Unabomber. The unpredictable behavior has forced the White House to repeatedly defend Trump's mental acuity, often in hyperbolic terms."
"There was the case in mid-July, when Trump told a detailed story about how his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Trump recalled: I said: What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.' I said: What kind of a student?' And then he said: Seriously, good.' He said: He'd correct he'd go around correcting everybody.' But it didn't work out too well for him."
Trump showed a pattern of erratic and unfocused conduct across 2025, including appearing to fall asleep in meetings and drifting into unrelated topics. Public appearances often lacked coherent focus, with rambling remarks about figures and incidents unrelated to policy. A notable example involved a false anecdote connecting his late uncle to Ted Kaczynski and MIT. Trump repeatedly defended his cognitive health and touted passing a screening for early dementia signs. White House aides and spokespeople repeatedly issued emphatic defenses of his mental acuity as public examples of unusual behavior accumulated.
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