Trump Has Another Disqualifying Event

 Trump spoke before the Economic Club of Chicago - a similar event to the one in Detroit. Presumably the campaign thinks that he needs to go before what they assume are friendly crowds of business executives.

It did not go well.

The moderator - Bloomberg editor John Micklethwait - did a great job of actually pressing Trump to answer his questions and reconcile his rambling nonsense with reality. At various points, it seems like the audience was laughing at his answers. When asked about anti-trust actions with Google, Trump talked about voting in Virginia until pressed to answer the actual question. He rambles off topic in ways that suggest very, very clearly that either A) he has zero idea what he's talking about or B) he's in the very real grip of dementia or likely both. 

In the clip, he once again falls back on "the weave" which someone told him is what smart people do and can explain away his rambling incoherence. I watched my father in law slowly sink into Alzheimer's, and he would repeat the same stories, because that's what he knew. The older the story, the better, because that was more familiar. Trying to carry on a free flowing conversation became harder and harder, because that new information became harder to assimilate. It was crushingly sad, to the point where I could almost feel sorry for Trump, if he wasn't such a smoldering dumpster fire of a human being.

There's an exchange where Micklethwait presses him on the absolute innumeracy of his tariff plans, and Trump asserts that he is, in fact, great at math. 

Trump has always spoken like a seventh grader who has a book report but didn't read the book. He was never a smart man and always a profoundly ignorant man about American civic life. The fact that his already marginal mental abilities are being eroded by senescence would seem to be a story that the press - who hounded Joe Biden from the race because his stutter has gotten worse - would be all over. They do seem to be giving it some coverage, but they also continue to sane-wash his insane utterings.

This man's brain is pudding and it's time the media reported it as such.