Host raises Trump 'cognitive decline' after ex-president forgets talk they had weeks prior
SiriusXM Progress host Michelangelo Signorile is questioning Donald Trump's "cognitive decline" after he appears to have forgotten a potential nominee for Treasury Secretary.
Trump spoke with Bloomberg earlier this month and agreed that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon could be a potential candidate for the position.
"Let me just say one thing first," Trump began. "So, I had a meeting with them. First, I had a meeting with Congress, Republican Congress. It was like a lovefest. Then, I met with them and the US Senate, which was all Republicans, 49. And it was also a lovefest, but my best meeting of the three (sic) was with the executives. And Biden’s misinformation — people put out a thing: Oh, he went on, he rambled. There was no rambling. This, you could say, this is rambling, but in order to get to the point, you have to, you know, this is a very complex subject, that a lot of people, most people don’t understand. But I just wanted to say, that that was the best meeting. They loved it. They were happy with."
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The rambling comments continued as he bragged about his tax cuts in 2017.
"But I would like to get it down to 15, if we could, because that would put us in the absolute lowest in terms of incentive. But that meeting and we had, I don’t know, 70—all CEOs, the top guys. That was a lovefest. And I will tell you when I’m not loved because I feel that better than anybody. But that was a lovefest. And it was reported by some people so wrong. Actually, CNBC called and apologized to me, because they found out. But we had a great meeting, Jamie Dimon was there. I have a lot of respect for Jamie Dimon."
The reporter at Bloomberg asked the question again whether Dimon would be a candidate for Treasury Secretary.
"He is somebody that I would consider, sure," Trump said. "He was at the meeting. Tim Cook was right next to him. You know, we had everybody."
In a post on Truth Social this week, Trump denied he commented.
"I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury,” Trump said. Fink is the CEO of the BlackRock investment firm.
Signorile pointed out that Trump's forgetting the conversation he had just three weeks ago indicates a questionable "decline."
Psychologists duo Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Harry Segal host the podcast "Shrinking Trump," which examines the mind of the 45th president. Both doctors agree that what is being seen is a mental decline.
In May, they discussed Trump's obsession with the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter to explore Trump's loss of cognition further.
Trump's ramblings about Lecter began last year. In an Oct. 7, 2023 rally, in in Waterloo, Iowa, Trump told the crowd: "Hannibal Lecter, how great an actor was he? You know why I like him? Because he said on television on one of the – ‘I love Donald Trump.’ So I love him. I love him. I love him. He said that a long time ago and once he said that, he was in my camp, I was in his camp. I don’t care if he was the worst actor, I’d say he was great to me."
After the story was widely reported with questions about Trump's decline, he began telling the Lecter story differently, recognizing it was a film and Lecter was not a real person.
He brought up Lecter in his keynote speech at the Republican National Convention last week.
"The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He'd love to have you for dinner," he said at the time.