forgetful

With each passing year, I see and hear the patient’s spiral of worry: Am I getting more forgetful?

As The New York Times reported earlier this month, the former president's speeches have “grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past,” the former president more than once appearing “confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality.”

The New York Times this week finally published a front-page story calling attention to Trump’s age and pointing out how frequently Trump “has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality lately,” complete with actual unhinged quotes from his rallies and a linguistic statistical analysis of Trump’s speech patterns and most frequently used exaggerations and lies.

Maybe he was wounded, misidentified, forgetful of who he was.

Instagram and Snapchat were just two of the many platforms that had pledged to help forgetful, regretful netizens save their nominally temporary posts as long-lasting memories.