It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address.
But this was not an address by a self-confident man dishing out Christmas presents to the nation. It smacked of desperation from one who can feel the December windchill of opinion polls – a Reuters/ Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed just 33% of US adults approve of how Trump has handled the economy – dissent in his own Republican ranks and the Jeffrey Epstein files looming on Friday.
The speech also revealed Trump’s need for a reliable foil. Over the years Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been useful nemeses for a man and movement defined less by what they are for than what they are against.
But… that’s the sugar free one… he must have been on something else.
They must have meant diet cocaine. As in not cut with sugar.
Hint: He was sniffing a lot during that drooling speech…
There’s no such thing as a “sugar high”. This is just Trump being Trump. He’s been an idiot for ever.
Remember his speech to the boy scouts in his first term?
I don’t remember the speech, but I’m guessing he was complimenting how hot their younger sisters were.
He deviated into a story about a rich guy he knows with a boat, and what sort of parties happened on that boat… I think hookers were mentioned. To children…!
So… he was trying to recruit their sisters, then.
only 3? With the way he consumes those things, he was probably actually going through a withdrawal
I mean, 3 diet cokes is a lot of caffeine.
Edit: I’ve been corrected that 3 diet cokes is, in fact, not a lot of caffeine. Guess he’s micro-dosing amphetamines. My bad, y’all.
As a regular consumer of caffeine, let me assure you it is not. As someone else said, he had the equivalent of a cup of coffee. I personally don’t start suffering any significant withdrawal symptoms until I have more than 100 mg per day, and fairly significant withdrawal symptoms if I regularly have over 400 mg per day. But even as a single dose of caffeine, 150 mg is pretty typical. That said, caffeine can give a temporary boost to cognitive function, even for dementia patients.
From someone who has been on the caffeine pony - caffeine withdrawal is no joke. If he’s been deprived of his diet cokes for medical reasons, it makes total sense that they’d give him some right before a televised address read from a teleprompter that he wasn’t supposed to deviate from.
A 12oz Diet Coke is 46mg caffeine. A cup of coffee is about 150mg.
Yeah, came here to say this. Soda generally doesn’t have a lot of caffeine compared to coffee.