• Optional@lemmy.world
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    A reporter asked Trump how long detainees would be staying at the new detention center, and … well Trump’s reply had folks talking.

    “I’m gonna spend a lot,” the president said. “This is my home state. I love it. I love your government. I love all the people around … these are all friends of mine. I know them very well, and I’m not surprised that they do so well. Ron (DeSantis) has been a friend of mine for a long time. I feel very comfortable in this state. I’ll spend a lot of time here. You know for four years I’ve got to be in Washington, and I’m OK with it because I love the White House. I even fixed up the little Oval Office. It’s like a diamond. It’s beautiful. It’s so beautiful. It wasn’t maintained properly, I will tell you that, but even when it wasn’t it was still the Oval Office so it meant a lot.

    “I’ll spend as much time as I can here,” he continued. “You know my vacation is generally here because it’s convenient. I live in Palm Beach. It’s my home, and I have a very nice little place. A nice little cottage to stay at, right. But we have a lot of fun and I’m a big contributor to Florida. We pay a lot of tax. A lot of people move from New York, and I don’t know what New York is gonna do. A lot of people move from Florida to New York for a lot of reasons, but one of them was taxes. Taxes are so high you can’t believe it. I don’t know what New York is gonna do about because some of the biggest, wealthiest people, and some of the people that pay the most taxes of anyone in the world for that matter, they are moving to Florida and other places. So, we are going to have to help some of these states out I think but thank you very much. I’ll be here as much as I can.”

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      That seems like a fairly standard Trump response, if anything almost abnormally sticking to one topic.

      He heard part of a question about how much time someone will be spending in Florida and assumed people would be asking about him, because who else matters? It’s it because he had poor hearing or poor comprehension I’ve no idea, but it’s clear he didn’t catch the full question and tried to pretend he did with the most narcissistic interpretation of the incomplete facts.

      Seems his normal level of poor listening, thinking, and speaking, not any more a decline than he’s already displayed.