Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
At a campaign event in New Hampshire last week, Donald Trump told an audience that Viktor Orbán is “the leader of Turkey.” He was, of course, mistaken: Orbán is the authoritarian prime minister of Hungary. The slip-up came on the heels of remarks in which Trump said President Joe Biden might be responsible for starting “World War II.” Soon after, the former president confused Jeb Bush and George W. Bush.
Maybe he’s made roughly the same number of verbal mistakes each of make all the time — I briefly forgot Jim Jordan’s name at a staff meeting last week, to my great embarrassment — but Trump’s incidents stand out because he has a vastly larger platform and receives greater scrutiny. The trouble, however, is that the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination is also going after the Democratic incumbent as someone experiencing cognitive decline.
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