As MAGA darlings go, Shane Gillis doesn’t always follow the red state rulebook. When other comics jetted to Riyadh for quick cash, Gillis turned down the bag, proclaiming, “You don’t do 9/11 to your friends.” He peppered his ESPYs monologue with Trump/Epstein jokes. And now he’s on his podcast, telling listeners that it might be time to start worrying about the president’s cognitive decline. Isn’t this guy supposed to be Trump-friendly?
Blame Gillis’s podcast co-host, Matt McCusker, for bringing up the subject. “You think (Trump) is getting dementia?” he asked Gillis and guest Nate Marshall. It was a fair question, given the President’s recent meltdown when he shouted “Quiet, piggy!” at a reporter asking him a question about the Epstein files.
There was a long pause as Gillis considered McCusker’s query, which was an answer in and of itself. “I don’t know,” he finally sighed. “He just seems a little slower than usual.”
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McCusker kept up the questions, reminding Gillis that Trump’s father, Fred, had dementia as well. “There’s speculation that T-Dog might be rocking Biden brains.”
Gillis wouldn’t go quite that far. “He’s not at Biden brains yet,” he said. “But he’s circling the drain.”
While some could attribute the comedians’ discussion to goofy speculation around the President’s health, others are more demonstrative about his condition, including his niece, Mary Trump. On a Daily Beast podcast this week, she laid out the case.
“There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather. I see that same look of confusion,” Mary said. “I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.”
Even more worrying? Donald “is somebody who has never had a great deal of impulse control, but that too is deteriorating,” she observed.
She recalled Fred Trump’s decline in the early 1990s. “He started forgetting who people were,” she said. “When we were in larger settings, I would see that deer in the headlights look of ‘where am I and why am I here?’ that I sometimes see in Donald’s eyes.”
Another Trump, Donald’s nephew Fred III, is also waving the red flag. “Like anyone else, I’ve seen his decline. But I see it in parallel with the way my grandfather’s decline was,” Fred told People last year. “If anyone wants to believe that dementia did not run in the Trump family, it’s just not true.”
Call it what you want — dementia, deer in the headlights, Biden brains. But it sounds like Shane Gillis sees exactly what Trump’s family does.