Can you imagine him winning, and giving the State-of-the-Union message next year? 90 minutes of pure dementia ‘chat’? Somewhere in the middle of it....he drift off to dog-faced pony soldier chat, and mention his 4th grade teacher....Miss Muddle-defart-in-the-face.
Late in Brezhnev’s rule of the USSR, he had to give their equivalent of a SOTUA to the Supreme Soviet.
It was sort of a “proof of life” because of rumors about his being a vegetable on life support.
Somehow he was given his written speech with 2 copies of each page, like carbon copies or duplicates.
He read page one twice, page two twice, etc.
While everybody sat in stunned silence.
He was replaced by, I think, KGB boss Andropov soon after.
With a scheduled naptime at the 45 minute mark.