For some time now, it’s been clear that Donald Trump’s brain has devolved into little more than oatmeal, and a word he couldn’t recall during an Oval Office photo op Monday is further proof that he’s in the advanced stages of dementia.
Asked about a decision by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro dropping criminal charges against former Olympic athlete David Hearn, who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Trump began spouting all sorts of angry phrases.
Pirro “folded like an umbrella,” Trump whined. He insisted that the government had evidence proving Hearn was the culprit, but he wasn’t able to explain exactly what that evidence consisted of.
“We have photographs, or tapes,” he said, making a circular gesture with his hands. Like moving cameras, right?”
Trump: "We have photographs or tapes — like moving cameras, right? — where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife." pic.twitter.com/961P0T26GK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 3, 2026
Oh, you mean videos? Do you have videos of the event? If so, where are they, and why are you not able to say the word “videos?”
But the fact that Dementia Don couldn’t even manage to pull up a word that most two-year-old kids would have no problem saying set of alarm bells and plenty of social media mockery.
Moving cameras?!?!???
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 3, 2026
His “frontal lobe” is Swiss fucking cheese.
Person, woman, man, moving camera, TV
— Alyssa F 🖤 💜 💚 (@mommabearjogs) August 3, 2026
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Next he’s going to start calling movies “the talkies” (unless of course they’re silent movies) 🙄
Also, we all know if these “moving camera” tapes existed he’d have splashed them all over his Temu social media platform by now. https://t.co/nvyhfDSPOB
He has the tapes filed beside Obama’s birth certificate investigators and the 2020 election fraud evidence.
— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@SundaeDivine) August 3, 2026
Trump’s idea of current methods to record events. pic.twitter.com/VsSa2n1QD3
— Bryan (@booman22) August 3, 2026
How old is their system to still use tapes? No one uses tapes anymore, but he said they have tapes.
— Nick (@NicholesCage) August 3, 2026
He can't even remember what video is… https://t.co/FmacTPLVcx
— Rodger Williams (@kiddwikked) August 3, 2026
Its basically like one of those newfangled picture shows. https://t.co/oIjoCPKmdP
— Hal_For_NY__ (@HalforNY__) August 3, 2026
"Moving cameras," like at the picture show. You know where you pay a nickel and then you see a newsreel and maybe a Flash Gordon serial and then a Humphrey Bogart picture. https://t.co/5v9k1HkoyB
— Bill Prady ⚛️ Now at 🦋 (@billprady) August 3, 2026
Ah, yes. The moving cameras. I remember we'd stroll down the boardwalk and put a coin in the ol' Nickelodian to see those movin' pictures. The Charleston was sweeping the nation and the flapper girls would give you a wink a peak of ankle. https://t.co/OLgmTNLDXg
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) August 4, 2026
Remember how Trump loved to make fun of Joe Biden for being mentally incompetent? Well, as the old saying goes, it takes one to know one, even if you see it on the moving camera.