Trump's abysmal joke nicknames flagged as sign he's losing marbles: 'Time to hang it up'

President Donald Trump is exhibiting a clear pattern that shows just how badly his cognitive abilities have slipped from what they used to be, MS NOW political analyst John Heilemann said on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

Heilemann's observation came after a general discussion in which he and Nicolle Wallace outlined what they saw as the president's incompetence and lack of concern for the American people.

"Forget about your politics. Forget about which which party you prefer," said Wallace. "In normal times, he doesn't care about your pain. He doesn't care about your problems. He doesn't care about your anxiety. He doesn't care about your future. He doesn't care about your kids."

Heilemann agreed — and for starters, he pointed to his failure to pull off a simple beautification of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

"I was in Washington this week ... I went down to the Reflecting Pool," he said, and added that he'd need "malaria pills" and "mosquito netting" to be safe there, given "that swamp situation is so bad, and it's such a great metaphor for the whole Trump administration ... he was told that, you know, people were like, this is gonna be a problem. He didn't listen to them."

Between that and the Iran war, he continued, America is facing "amateur hour incompetence of everything."

As for the proof of Trump's decline, Heilemann said, "just hover on the nicknames for a moment" — specifically, the creativity of the nicknames that Trump gives to his political opponents.

"Little Marco, Low-Energy Jeb, Lyin' Ted, those were good nicknames," said Heilemann. "I think these new nicknames, Marjorie Taylor Brown, that you had that kind of explain it. Dumocrats. And now the third strike, Jon OssJerkoff. There is no clearer sign of Trump's cognitive decline than the decline in the quality of his nicknames."

"These are just bad nicknames, man," he added. "It's time to hang it up."

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