#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (1) Trump opens the daily session mixing his prepared text with freestyle comments sprinkled in. His word of the day today seems to be "incredible," which he's already used 4-5 times. He's reading a lot of numbers about ventilators.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (2) Trump again misstates the facts about the testing: on a per capita basis we do not lead the world. He's trying to say minorities are suffering disproportionately from the pandemic, but he stumbles & asks Fauci to explain, which he does.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (3) Trump brags about our superior tests, but he's reading in monotone & rather rapidly. "When you take something where it was the most successful country in the world, still is, the whole world was shut down, think about we're down...

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (4) ...to numbers that are incredible, uh, as I said yesterday, I think it was 182 countries, right now, 182 countries are under attack by the "scourge" virus, virus, but as we wage war on the virus..." (Today Trump is wandering a lot.)

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (5) Trump departs from the script even farther & is saying something about other countries not treating us fairly, but it's hard to know what he's perseverating on. Returns to written text for a sentence or two, then ad libs again, then reads.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (6) Trump is still going in circles. Here is an excerpt I captured by replaying the video several times. A good example of how dementia makes intelligent speech difficult.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (7) Q&A starts relatively early. Trump exhibits another dementia trait when he talks about another person or another country but says, "I won't name them, I could, but I won't." He is repeating himself a lot about "shutting it down."

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (8) Responding to a question about his motives, Trump again returns to "I closed it down," the 4th or 5th time he has said this. "I am a cheerleader for this country" is not an explanation of his policy rationale. He seems very tired today.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (9) Asked about the Navarro memo warning, Trump says he never saw the memo, still hasn't seen it. "Nobody said it's going to happen...but it's right about the time I closed it down," wanders back into not answering about the memo.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (10) Press stays on the Navarro memo, stays with "closed it down." He probably doesn't really understand the question, which is how he didn't know what Navarro's warning said, why he denied a problem. He's in a jam here, mentally stuck.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (11) "I didn't see it, but I closed it down...Most people thought we shouldn't close it down..." He keeps repeating he didn't see the memo, "I couldn't have done it any better, cause it was about the same time, & I closed it down to China."

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (12) Trump can't get off the hook on the Navarro warning memo, repeats the "closed it down to China" 6-7x now, even trashes Biden. Doesn't address the question because he can't process the complex issue & deal with the jam he's in.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (13) It's remarkable that Trump is not turning to his enablers to get them to buffer his calf splatter & bullshit, as he is way over his head. Press moves on to minority suffering disproportionately, & Trump turns to "Sue" (?) for help.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (14) Trump is trying to talk about the racial suffering, but he doesn't understand the stats or the question. Next issue is the demise of the USPS, so Trump attacks Amazon. Rambles about "thousands of packages on the floor of the post office."

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (15) Asked what he has learned, Trump returns to the 1918 flu, first calling it 1917 again. He talks about "Sweden suffering badly, they call it the herd, the herd..." He is trying to talk about immunity, but he can't.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (16) Asked about SCOTUS & election decision, Trump rambles about his endorsement of a judge Kelly. It's BS/CS, "It's cheaters, they go and collect 'em, they're fraudulent in many case, they should have voter ID..." and he's off the rails again.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (17) Trump is getting a lot of screen time, but he just looks & sounds terrible. He rambles with bullshit & calf splatter. Now he's doing it about Zpack & chloroquine. Cites Laura Ingraham & Fox. Telling a story claiming 4 hour cure of virus.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (18) Trump's story about "the dying Democrat" is just shameful. It's the worst example of anecdotal crap that endangers people. But it allows him to dominate the screen & avoid substance. Even claims that woman is now his fan.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (19) The IG firing comes up, clearly something Trump knows nothing about & acted upon based on #MalignantEnabling staff. He shifts back to "Chain-Ah." Asked about WI voting & SCOTUS, he is clueless, brags about winning Wisconsin.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (20) Trump doesn't understand the questions about social distancing & the voting issue in Wisconsin. He then brushes off a question about oil because the reporter doesn't know today's price. Trump claims fraud in mail-in voting -- not true.

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (21) As with every briefing, Trump has gone an hour & hasn't substantively answered a question. He parries questions with BS/CS, "what about," "you look at other countries," or "we'll see what happens." This is called "covering for deficits."

#Presidementia 04/07 Press Briefing (22) At this point Trump abruptly ends his daily show & turns things over to his blocking dummy, Pence the Evangelist, who seems more somber today while declaring, "There is reason for hope despite the increase in losses." He looks tired, too.