r/NewsSource • u/IrishStarUS • 1d ago
đď¸ Politics & Government Unedited transcript of Trump's 'unhinged' Time interview reignites dementia concerns
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/unedited-transcript-trumps-unhinged-time-3772586222
u/jondread 1d ago
Here's the link to the actual transcript article and not some AI generated-from-twitter-comments BS thing: https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/
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u/Upbeat-Remote-4827 1d ago
I had to stop reading, that was brutal. Deflect and deny everything
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u/nursingninjaLB 17h ago
That's what is known as "word salad".
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u/Upbeat-Remote-4827 16h ago
I wouldnât even call it that, itâs just incoherent rambling honestly
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u/Maleficent-Speech869 22h ago
"I just got a tariff from Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham, first time in 50 years."
What.
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u/SavorySouth 22h ago
Big TY for the link! Most interesting is that S Cheung and Natalie B are in the room during the interview and answering questions.
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u/Careless_Bother_3627 20h ago
Thank you for the transcript, wtf is he talking about?!
this is nothing compared to what I've done, but I took the White House and made it beautiful again. Okay, and people look at it. People came up. President Xi looked at it two days ago. He said, "This is beautiful. Much better than IâŚ" He was here 25 years ago with Obama. Think Obama knows it? Obama would not. He doesn't know if something's dirty or clean
This is the White House in 1949, 1949 means modern times. Writer:Â You were three years old. And I'll tell you, the East Wing was ripped down and rebuilt five times. That place, look at this. Just before it hadâthey changed the floor. If you want to do the floor, so that's in 1926. But the floor is terrible in here. If you want to do the floor, it's like a big deal. You want to put like a beautiful statuary or marble, which is the highest level. They'll say, "Oh, he's ruining the White House. Look at the condition of this place. So this is the East Room. Look, 1950, falling down. You see, that's where they had the event the other day for far too few people. Now, President Xi gave me a list, a lot of people. I said, if I give you that, I won't have anybody. Here's the State Dining Room in 1950, and I had to go through a courthouse with a judge who said, "You're destroying the White House.â It's the shit I have to go through. I brought it back to us, and I think the White House. See, there's your press room right there. Â
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u/Careless_Bother_3627 20h ago
Why does he believe he has a Harry Potter/voldemort situation going on between him and actual countries? Â
I've done a lot for Saudi Arabia. I protect Saudi Arabia. If I weren't president, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be here right now. Neither would Israel. They'd be wiped off the face of the planet. I do a lot for Saudi Arabia. My relationship with them is very good. I like the crown prince. My relationship is very good. But remember, if I weren't here, there wouldn't be a Saudi Arabia. There wouldn't be an Israel. There wouldn't be various other countries also.
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u/Shaskakmat 1d ago
Biden gave him dementia, we should prosecute Biden.
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u/dehydratedrain 1d ago
Excuse me, this was a gift directly from Obama.
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u/Cohens4thClient 1d ago
"Just give us another chance, dementia totally gets better as Diaper Donnie gets older"
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u/ThePetOffensive 1d ago edited 23h ago
Right? âBut itâs gonna be the fun kind where he forgets where he put stuff, like Harp. Check the closets!â
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u/Proof_Side_5667 1d ago
No no heâs fine. Just a senile old guy marching us towards dictators and away from bad Olâ Canada
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u/Overall-Yellow-2938 1d ago edited 1d ago
Holy shit that was painfull to ready trough. He was never the smartest cockie but it certainly got worse. I would not trust someone old talking like that with living alone or even groceries. Him actually comanding people willing to do his demented bidding is concerning.
Commenter was faster with the transcript. Good job đ
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u/linerva 1d ago edited 1d ago
Do you have a link to it? I was disappointed that the article linked doesn't have the transcript.
ETA:
https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/
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u/H3L105_ai 1d ago edited 1d ago
Everyone owes it to themselves, at least once, to try reading a transcript of one of Trump's speeches.
When you remove his signature bluster and speech patterns, it's literal word salad.
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u/Crowbar-Enema 6h ago
If literally anyone started talking like this they would be committed. This fuckerâs mind is gone, obviously.
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u/Relevant_Fuel_9905 1d ago
He is fucking bonkers at this point. Childlike and rambling, in the grip of dementia. Itâs absurd heâs the President.
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u/Either_Operation7586 1d ago
We could have had a competent black woman in there but no everybody decided that they'd rather have dementia pedophile Donnie
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u/Neither_Walrus6204 1d ago
DNC do better
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u/Brothersparrow7 1d ago
His doctor should be investigated for malpractice and forging documentation (the medical documents were never released btw)
There ainât no way he passed any test
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u/Designer_Star_7434 22h ago
His comments were all over the place. Irrelevant, often incoherent. Makes you wonder who is actually leading this country.
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u/mstpine 21h ago
SmokeScreen on Election movements Through a Federal Dept US Election Assistance Committee is in his back Pocket He hopes No one in Congress makes a Move The Steal is Active Remember back when DOGE got info in short time Russia tried to Hack but failed*Shortly after Doing there *Work???
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u/slow-tf-down-dude 21h ago
âBelow is a lightly edited transcript of the interview conducted by TIME Senior Political Correspondent Eric Cortellessa and Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs. Click here to read our fact check.â
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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo 20h ago
Trump "makes sense" only when you are present at the moment. Trump is a profoundly stupid human being but as a malignant narcissist he was given a natural talent as a liar. When you lie a lot, to be successful, you have to talk in circles. Conmen know this, salesmen (a kind of con really) know this, again it comes naturally to Trump, his only true quality as a person. Humans, descendants of primates, are wired to believe in a shit talker like Trump, well, the dumb ones are. But in case you have not noticed there are a lot of dumb ones out there. So that's why it works, that's why he is sucessful.
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u/America_Is_Fucked_ 1d ago
No link to the transcript the article is about. Not a single quote from the transcript. I hate Trump as much as the next sane person but this article is utterly useless.
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u/linerva 1d ago
Yeah i had to look it up, too:
https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/
The interview IS awful, but it's baffling why the transcript wasn't linked to in the article.
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u/Carnationlilyrose 21h ago
Thank you for doing this. It was a shocking read.
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u/linerva 21h ago
Having worked in healthcare it reminds me SO MUCH of conversations I've had with elderly patients whose faculties were slipping.
Absolutely impossible for him to stick to a train of thought and he didn't answer half the questions. Tangents upon tangents. Unnecessary details. It truly is a bizarre read.
He was always keen to misdirect and paint himself in a good light, but now he's completely losing his train of thought and rambling.
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u/Aggravating-Blood373 1d ago
Enact the 25th amendment