As someone who knows multiple older people who had dementia… this is not it.

Maybe some regular “old brain” stuff but the man is his usual riffing off-the-cuff self.

Sorry guys. Suggest you watch a live clip of him taking questions - not just whatever MSNBC has edited.

His standard inarticulate word salad evincing an incurious mind, not attributable to any particular mental decline. Got it.

Dude is actually decent “enough” at public speaking. He just spouts garbage.

As someone who does it that is a professional view

This was ten years ago.

? And… I’m not saying he is eloquent orator who gives a good TED talk

Just that as someone giving speeches and answering questions when he stays on script and doesn’t have his flights of fancy (which still frankly play well to _his _ crowd) he has decent enough delivery

If not too painful watch him live sometime. He’s an idiot and full of garbage but he can hit his lines well enough to stay on stage with other professional politicians. Not sure if you realize that itself is a marker of some level of skill