NYT: Trump "has always been discursive and has often been untethered to truth, but with the passage of time his speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past."
https://nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html
NYT: "it was hardly the only time Mr. Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality lately. In fact, it happens so often these days that it no longer even generates much attention."
NYT: "“He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some…unfinished, some…factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents”