Alyssa Farah Griffin warns about Donald Trump's worsening 'mental acuity' amid 'stress of losing election and legal convictions'

'The View' hosts discussed Donald Trump's ramblings as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee gets back on the campaign trail after hush money conviction
PUBLISHED JUN 11, 2024
Alyssa Farah Griffin criticized Donald Trump's mental acuity on 'The View' (Chip Somodevilla and Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Alyssa Farah Griffin criticized Donald Trump's mental acuity on 'The View' (Chip Somodevilla and Mario Tama/Getty Images)

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Alyssa Farah Griffin discussed the mental state of former president Donald Trump with her co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Sunny Hostin on the Monday, June 10, episode of 'The View'.

The subject was broached by Goldberg as the presumptive GOP nominee held his first campaign rally since his conviction in the hush money trial on Sunday, June 9, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"See, y'all always concerned I'm smoking something- what's he smoking?" she asked the audience after clips from the rally were played showing Trump rambling about the Secret Service, malfunctioning teleprompter, and choosing between death by electrocution or shark bite in the middle of the ocean.

Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Las vegas, Nevada on June 9, 2024 (Screengrab/MSNBC)
Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 9, 2024 (Screengrab/MSNBC)

Alyssa Farah Griffin's comments on Donald Trump's Las Vegas speech

Chiding that Donald Trump's comments at the rally sounded similar to a drunk rambling, Alyssa Farah Griffin stated, "This election has been a lot about mental acuity and stamina of these two presidential candidates who are the oldest in history."

While admitting to criticizing incumbent Joe Biden on that front, she noted, "I think if you're going to be critical of Joe Biden, you have to look at the glaring warning signs about Donald Trump. Listening to him now does not sound like him in 2016, and he was not ever particularly eloquent. In 2016 he was not like William Shakespeare by any means."

"But I'm recognizing and seeing a decline in him, others who have known him have said it. And I think that matters because from confusing Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, to confusing the President of Turkey with the President of Hungary, to confusing Obama and Biden left and right, he does this constantly," continued Griffin.

"I'm convinced that the stress of having lost the 2020 election, the legal convictions and indictments all just piling up, and him finally maybe being held accountable ... I think they are getting to him," she added.



 

Ana Navarro's take on Donald Trump

"I said during the trial, that I thought being on trial was actually helping (Trump) because he was off the campaign trail and we weren't seeing the crazy stuff he says on a daily basis," Navarro said at the Hot Topics table, picking up the conversation after Hostin.

"It took him about 10 days or 8 days to get back on the campaign trail - he was playing golf for the first few days - and now that he is back, we see the crazy things he says," she continued. "Listen, If this was your uncle or father, you would take him for a neurological exam."

"So people talk about Joe Biden being old. Yes Joe Biden is old, (but) so is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump is senile, incoherent, crazy, offensive, outrageous, disgusting, evil, and convicted. That's your binary choice, people" she concluded in a rant.

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