‘Desperate’ Trump is ‘hyper-aware’ that he is slipping mentally and making less sense, his biographer says

Donald Trump, now the oldest candidate to run for president, is facing intense scrutiny over his age and mental sharpness — and his biographer thinks Trump is “hyper-aware” that he is cognitively slipping and trying to make up for it with “convoluted explanations,” according to a report.

President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race after a fumbled debate performance that had voters questioning his mental acuity. Now Trump is facing similar questions and is trying to provide explanations for his frequent mentions of Hannibal Lecter, garbled words, incomplete thoughts, conflating the names of prominent figures, and his penchant for rambling.

But the explanations caused one Trump biographer to believe the GOP nominee knows full well that he is losing his mental footing.

Timothy O’Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, told The Guardian that he believes the former president, who once dubbed himself a “very stable genius,” fully understands that he is saying more ludicrous things than ever and is trying to make up for it.

“The reason he’s now offering these convoluted explanations of his speech patterns in his public appearances is because he’s hyper-aware that people have noted that he’s making even less sense than he used to,” O’Brien said. “What we’re seeing now is a reflection of someone who’s very troubled and very desperate.”

On Saturday afternoon, Trump also tried to explain his frequent, and apparently random, references to the “late great Hannibal Lecter,” a fictional cannibalistic serial killer from books and movies including Silence of the Lambs. As it turns out, he was making a statement about migrants, claiming the killer was “representative of people that are coming into our country.”

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