DL Open Thread: Monday, December 8, 2026

Trump Has Early Stage Alzheimer’s?  It’s as plain as the orange makeup caked on his hand:

Trump’s deteriorating physical and cognitive condition stopped being a punchline somewhere around the moment he fell asleep in a Cabinet meeting (23 times this week alone), got angry when asked about his MRI, and sent his entire comms team out to claim he had a “preventative MRI” — a procedure that, like his inauguration crowd size, exists only in his imagination.

But now?
It’s not just neurologists and psychiatrists whispering behind closed doors.

A certified medical professional with 14 years of experience treating dementia patients may have just cracked the whole f***ing code — complete with a specific drug, specific side effects, and specific behavioral symptoms that perfectly match what we’re all watching happen to Donald J. Trump in real time.

The video transcript lays it out plainly:

“This dementia patient keeps having bruising on his hand because he’s most likely getting a monthly infusion of a drug called Kisunla… roughly once a month, you see his hand bruised, covered with makeup, and in this case covered with two band-aids, because his veins are suffering repeated trauma from the infusion.”

Trump’s mysteriously bruised hand — the one photographers have caught, caked with orange makeup and concealer — is exactly what patients look like after repeated IV infusions of Kisunla (donanemab), a monoclonal antibody drug for early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease.

And here’s where it gets nuclear:

👉 Kisunla requires monthly infusion.
👉 Kisunla commonly causes ARIA (brain swelling/bleeding).
👉 Kisunla requires repeat MRIs to monitor the bleeding/swelling.

Suddenly Trump’s secret MRIs — the ones Leavitt tried to spin as “preventative” — make perfect sense.

In other words, the diametric opposite of what the so-called ‘opposition party’ has to say.  Which is nothing.  Repeat after me:  He is unfit to serve and must leave office.

Mortgage Fraud Is OK When The President Does It:

For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.

President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.” He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action.

But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.

In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.

Mortgage law experts who reviewed the records for ProPublica were struck by the irony of Trump’s dual mortgages. They said claiming primary residences on different mortgages at the same time, as Trump did, is often legal and rarely prosecuted. But Trump’s two loans, they said, exceed the low bar the Trump administration itself has set for mortgage fraud.

“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said Kathleen Engel, a Suffolk University law professor and leading expert on mortgage finance. “Trump has deemed that this type of misrepresentation is sufficient to preclude someone from serving the country.”

More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Data Centers.  Will any of the shadowy co-conspirators on NCC Council read this, or have someone read it to them?:

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new data centers in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.

The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations, have urged members of Congress halt the proliferation of energy-hungry data centers, accusing them of causing planet-heating emissions, sucking up vast amounts of water and for exacerbating electricity bill increases that have hit Americans this year.

“The rapid, largely unregulated rise of data centers to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security,” the letter states, adding that approval of new data centers should be paused until new regulations are put in place.

When asked about his criminal record, Atkins said his past is almost a decade behind him now, which has given him time to mature and apologize to his former constituents.

“Circumstances change,” he said. “I was in a very unsettling, bad relationship. That’s been over with for years, and I’m on the right path.”

In a Facebook comment responding to skepticism about his potential run, Atkins wrote that his former wife admitted she “wasn’t 100% truthful” in her statements in the 2014 case.

“I understand firsthand how destructive toxic relationships can be,” he wrote. “Many men like me do.”