Trump's town hall looked like 'live sundowning' — don't call it a 'dance party': reporter
A Boston Globe reporter shamed those who downplayed Donald Trump's decision to stop answering questions from his fans and instead play music and dance.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr suggested the world could be witnessing the "live sundowning" of a presidential candidate.
The term sundowning describes when an older adult begins having different behaviors in the late afternoon or early evening. The Alzheimer's Society said that the person can become " intensely distressed, agitated and have hallucinations or delusions."
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MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell laughed about the incident, calling it, "a break for 30 minutes" that reminded her of "American Bandstand." The incident was twice as long, with Trump dancing and calling out songs to play for 57 minutes total.
Republican strategist Susan del Percio said that it made her think of the old cartoons and Vaudeville shows where a giant hook would come out to drag someone off stage.
Mitchell said it was clear his supporters loved it, but she asked Atkins Stohr whether something like that could hurt his chances with swing voters.
"He is supposed to answer questions," Atkins Stohr said of the town hall. "He is not. He is sort of melted down into this bizarre, inexplicable sort of live sundowning in a way. It continues to show his unfitness. And I think characterizing it as a dance party does a disjustice to it. This is somebody who wants to run the world [and] have the nuclear codes. He clearly did not seem okay."
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