Donald Trump struggles to understand question amid 'cognitive decline' concerns
During the meeting, Trump seemingly struggled to hear a reporter's question in the ballroom of his resort. "Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?" asked the reporter.
"Say it," Trump responded while gesturing to the woman. The reporter then reasked her question, which the president did not seem to hear once again, forcing him to ask someone sitting next to him, "What is she saying?"
"Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?" the unidentified man said off-camera. It's then that the president snapped back into his normal chatty self.
"You know, we gave $60 million to Israel and nobody even acknowledged it for food," the president said. "And it's terrible. You know, you really at least want to have somebody say thank you." US President Donald Trump (C-R) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
"No other country gave anything," the president remarked. "We gave $60 million for food for Gaza."
Users of the social media site X were quick to point out the president's hearing issue. "Trump's age is showing. Biden would never be able to get away with this," one person wrote.
"Omg, he can't even hear! Put grandpa on the porch and leave us alone," a second commented. "Pure cognitive decline," a fourth added.
Rumors that Trump may not be in good health come as Mary Trump, the president's niece, spoke out about how her uncle is in a declining mental state. "This is nothing new. Donald has practically always bristled when anybody has the audacity to push back at him or to suggest that he is not the one with sole authority over everything," Mary said in a video on her YouTube channel earlier this month. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen meets with President Trump (Image: Getty Images)
"If he is not the one who is always right, but it's getting worse. It's getting worse in part because he's getting worse," she added. "Untreated psychiatric disorders do not get better and they do not stay the same; they deteriorate."
"Also he's under more, more and more stress because of the very situations he himself is creating on the world stage. He is unraveling and he knows it," she warned. Mary, who is related to Trump through her father and Donald's older brother, Fred Trump Jr., has raised numerous red flags about her uncle's health.
In her show, which is titled "Trump Trolls Trump," Mary has given insight to her uncle's mind. One example includes Trump's fictional story about his late uncle, John Trump, and Unabomber Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski.
John Trump was a professor of electrical engineering at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Trump conjured up a story that Kaczynski was one of his students. Mary debunks this by saying that Trump's uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was not identified as the Unabomber until 1996.
Mary also slammed her uncle when he claimed that former President Joe Biden hired Jerome Powell as the head of the Federal Reserve when it was Trump. The fake story comes as Trump repeatedly slams Powell for not lowering the federal interest rate.
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