I just want to note that while it's clear that yes, Trump has lost something over the course of the past 9 years, he never had much to begin with. He's not the man he once was, but that man was also an incoherent pile of dogshit. There's no basis to suggest that he was every any good at this.
NYT: "Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age" -- www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/u...
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a revie...
"But he *won* in 2016! He must have had some kind of skill!" Nope. We're just a country that's racist as fuck and has a dumb electoral system (because we're racist as fuck).