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He repeatedly gave multiple speeches where he confused reality with roles he played, or movies he saw. Most famously, he repeated told the story of a B-17 pilot

He repeatedly gave multiple speeches where he confused reality with roles he played, or movies he saw. Most famously, he repeated told the story of a B-17 pilot that was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for staying with the plane to comfort a trapped ball turret gunner until it crashed. This was climax of the film, “A Wing and a Prayer”. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/01/01/where-did-reagan-hear-that-one/b7c9c1b5-2508-4788-942e-0bfb21b4aba9/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/01/01/w...

keepamovin 3y ago
Your comments here are interesting so just curious what do you think the solution to Geo political conflict is? How does it play out in your mind?
robocat 3y ago
I wonder whether the same problem would occur with enough focus on what any one of us says? If we recorded your words over a period of a few years and then had thousands of people looking for errors in the transcripts, what errors would be found in your memory or thinking patterns? It is certainly common enough to see some doozy mistakes from smart people within the comments on HN.
- jonathankoren 3y ago
  Well, he did have Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease that affects memory. And we’re supposed to believe that he had no symptoms of until January 21, 1989. As a person that had a grandmother and aunt that developed it, that’s… mighty suspicious.
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness — his own father’s dementia https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-trump-dementia-father-fred-alzheimers-biden/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-tr... >Trump avoids mention of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease as he lashes Biden for being ‘cognitively impaired’ >Donald Trump invited his extended family to Mar-a-Lago in the mid-1990s. As the clan gathered at the palatial Florida estate, though, his father was badly struggling, according to Mary L. Trump, Donald’s niece. >Fred Trump Sr., the pugnacious developer then in his late 80s, didn’t recognize two of his children at the party, recalled Mary L. Trump, who attended the gathering. And when he did recognize Donald, the family patriarch approached his son with a picture of a Cadillac that he wanted to buy — as if he needed his son’s permission. >The incident, Mary L. Trump said, left Donald Trump visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia, which medical records show had been diagnosed several years earlier. Trump reflected his anguish in an interview around that time, with Playboy in 1997 reporting that seeing his father “addled with Alzheimer’s” had left him wondering “out loud about the senselessness of life.” >“Turning 50 does make you think about mortality, or immortality, or whatever,” Trump, who had recently reached that milestone, told the magazine. “It does hit you.” [...]
    - lupusreal 3y ago
      Quite frankly, anybody too old to be an airline pilot should be disqualified as POTUS.

keepamovin 3y ago

Your comments here are interesting so just curious what do you think the solution to Geo political conflict is? How does it play out in your mind?

robocat 3y ago

I wonder whether the same problem would occur with enough focus on what any one of us says? If we recorded your words over a period of a few years and then had thousands of people looking for errors in the transcripts, what errors would be found in your memory or thinking patterns? It is certainly common enough to see some doozy mistakes from smart people within the comments on HN.

jonathankoren 3y ago
Well, he did have Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease that affects memory. And we’re supposed to believe that he had no symptoms of until January 21, 1989. As a person that had a grandmother and aunt that developed it, that’s… mighty suspicious.
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness — his own father’s dementia https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-trump-dementia-father-fred-alzheimers-biden/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-tr... >Trump avoids mention of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease as he lashes Biden for being ‘cognitively impaired’ >Donald Trump invited his extended family to Mar-a-Lago in the mid-1990s. As the clan gathered at the palatial Florida estate, though, his father was badly struggling, according to Mary L. Trump, Donald’s niece. >Fred Trump Sr., the pugnacious developer then in his late 80s, didn’t recognize two of his children at the party, recalled Mary L. Trump, who attended the gathering. And when he did recognize Donald, the family patriarch approached his son with a picture of a Cadillac that he wanted to buy — as if he needed his son’s permission. >The incident, Mary L. Trump said, left Donald Trump visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia, which medical records show had been diagnosed several years earlier. Trump reflected his anguish in an interview around that time, with Playboy in 1997 reporting that seeing his father “addled with Alzheimer’s” had left him wondering “out loud about the senselessness of life.” >“Turning 50 does make you think about mortality, or immortality, or whatever,” Trump, who had recently reached that milestone, told the magazine. “It does hit you.” [...]
  - lupusreal 3y ago
    Quite frankly, anybody too old to be an airline pilot should be disqualified as POTUS.