Mental acuity

In action:

“We got the Olympics and then we got through Gianni, he’s the boss, we got, he’s a friend of mine, and we got the World Cup, I got them both, and I said, ‘Man, I won’t be president. I won’t be pre — I got the Olympics and the World Cup and I won’t be president and they’re gonna forget that I got them, nobody’s gonna mention it,’ because you know, a little bit, that’s the way life is. And then they rigged the election, and then I said, ‘You know what I’ll do? I’ll run again and I’ll shove it up their ass.’”

[Applause.]

“And that’s what I did, and all of a sudden, and then, realized, I said, ‘You know what? I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup, and I got the 250th.’” Look at the way this works out. So if they would’ve left us alone, and wouldn’t have cheated on the election, and wouldn’t have rigged it, I would’ve been retired right now. I would’ve been happily doing something else, and instead they have me for four more years, can you believe that?”

[Applause.]

My transcription, from this video clip. It’s excerpted from a meeting of the Kennedy Center board, with the full video posted on the White House website. Yes, this madness is on the White House website.

You can see a much longer demonstration of acuity if you begin at the 25:00 mark. He brags that he got the Olympics and the World Cup (but refuses to take credit for “the 250th”), moves to dissing Barack Obama, stumbles over the pronunciation of Los Angeles, comments on the Los Angeles fires and the goodness of water, goes back to dissing Obama, and recounts a telephone conversation with a Scandinavian Olympics official who was “starved for love.” And then picks up with “We got the Olympics,” &c.