“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well, but that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while at least. But he found a new wife.”

Trump should know something about trophy wives. He was 47 when he married 30-year-old Marla Maples in 1993. Third wife Melania was 35 and he 58 when they married in 2005.

But how any of that relates to the lives of graduating cadets is anybody’s guess.

But while spotlighting the goal of the Biden team to retain power, it casts a shadow over the similar signs of declining mental acuity in President Donald Trump – if the misspeakings other than his outright lies are not just examples of his stupidnous ignorance.

This continues the corporate media focus on Biden’s gaffes during the campaign while ignoring Trump’s own nonsensical pronouncements. His 2023 funeral oration for a woman he claimed not to know but who is shown with him in multiple rally photos would be considered a masterful satire of a mindless blowhard – if it were not too, too real.

The mind of this “stable genius” continues to amaze, even past his new day/new stance on the tariffs which are raising prices on goods for American consumers. It is as if sleep erases his memory.

On Feb. 20, Trump told a gathering of Republican governors: “I had an approval rating today of 71 and another one of 69. I have not heard of those numbers before.”

Nobody else has heard those numbers since that week’s poll numbers showed approval ratings of: Gallup, 45%; CNN, 47%; Washington Post/Ipsos, 45%, Reuters, 44%.

Later that month, as part of his tariff crusade, he criticized the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement as example of what his policies would rectify:

“I mean, who can blame them if they made these great deals with the United States, took advantage of the United States on manufacturing? On just about anything, every aspect you can imagine, they took advantage.”

And the president they “took advantage of” was Donald Trump, whose long-term memory seems as fragile as his short memory.

In an early May “Meet the Press” interview with Kristin Welker, Trump was asked point blank if he were obligated to follow the Constitution. Less than four months after swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Trump told Welker:

“I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.” He expressed similar doubt when pressed specifically about the Fifth and 14^th Amendments.

Maybe Trump sees a way out in the oath itself, when it declares the president will do his duties “to the best of my Ability.” That ability seems to be limited.

During a Time magazine interview at the same time, he was reminded: “You once said you weren’t sure how the Civil Rights ‘worked out.” Would America be better without it?”

Trump replied, “I never heard of that. Nobody’s ever asked me that before.”

When the reporter told Trump, “You said it in a 2020 interview,” Trump replied “I don’t remember having said that.”

Well, “I’ve slept since then” is a common refrain among septuagenarians, but usually as a humorous reference, but not about our core beliefs.

But accepted norms do not apply to the convicted felon who posted a photo-shopped image of himself in full Papal vestments – after opining earlier that he would like to be Pope.

In March, shortly after floating the notion to challenge Biden’s late-term pardons, claiming they were signed by autopen and not legitimate, Trump told reporters that he “didn’t sign” the papers invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798:

“I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it.”

So much for the evils of auto-pen.

And in what seems a remarkably aptly-named exhibit of assonance, he told Stephen A. Smith in May, “We had riots in Harlem, in Harlem, and frankly, if you look at what’s gone on, and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen. And they protested very strongly against Harvard. They happened to be on my side. You know, I got a very high Black vote. You know that. Very, very high Black vote. It was a very great compliment.”

You think there might be a reason that the White House quit posting transcripts of the president’s remarks?

No, Harlem did not rise up in support of Trump’s anti-education campaign against Harvard, but The New Republic did observe: “Cognitive Decline? Trump Is Now Making up Protests in His Support.”

Hah! You hateful liberals. Trump passed another cognitive test this year. Yep, the man whose obsession with the “old-fashioned” word “groceries” should tell his populist pals that he has never bought “a bag with different things in it” in his life and who recently claimed to have invented the word “equalizing” managed to ace the kind of test my parents were taking in their 90s in assisted living and nursing home facilities. [I do claim credit for combing “stupendous” and “stupid” into “stupidnous.”]

Incapable of grasping the amused abuse he earned in his first term by confusing a cognitive test with an IQ test [“Person Woman Man TV Camera”], Trump bragged:

“I took my cognitive exam as part of my physical exam, and I got the highest mark, and one of the doctors said, ‘Sir, I’ve never seen anybody get that kind of – that was the highest mark.'”

For the record, my folks passed their tests, too.

Trump’s unreasoning has not improved since his testing triumph. During a mid-May press conference in Qatar while on his grift trip to the Mideast, he complained about “ugly” stealth airplanes in a typical stream-of-unconsciousness word salad:

“I’m not a huge believer in stealth because stealth is, basically, a lot of it’s the design and the shape. I’m sure you [the Boeing CEO] maybe think, but also, if that’s the case, they’re gonna figure it out pretty fast, I think. So you’re gonna design an ugly plane for stealth reasons, and then six months later, they’re gonna figure out this and then you’re stuck with a plane.”

Then there’s Trump’s announced intentions to refit the 60-year ruin of Alcatraz as a federal prison; his completely bogus claim of $1.98 per gallon; his pathetic obsession with Taylor Swift; and his feud with Bruce Springsteen [whom he hits with a golf ball in another fake video posting as unreal as the mind which thinks this appropriate behavior for the president of the United States.]

Following the Jan. 29 mid-air collision of a commercial airliner and an Army helicopter in DC that killed 67 people, Trump – who opted for a lucrative golfing weekend at Mar-a-Lago instead of visiting the crash site – said:

“We want the most competent people. We don’t care what race they are. We want the most competent people, especially in those positions. If they don’t have a great brain, a great power of the brain, they’re not going to be very good at what they do, and bad things will happen.”

He was talking about air traffic controllers. His remarks should apply as well to those steering our ship of state.