'Losing his step': Conservative says 'doddering' Trump 'not the man he used to be'

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Conservative podcaster and columnist Matt Lewis says President Donald Trump appears to be packing on years abnormally fast, and it’s showing in his behavior.

“Donald Trump clearly aged this year. And part of that is we can no longer compare him to Biden,” said Lewis, speaking with Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes on Sykes’ Substack podcast. “ … In people’s minds you could contrast Trump against Biden and it wasn’t favorable to Biden. Biden seemed doddering and slow, whereas Trump was aged but he had a weird crazed manic energy. Well, Biden is no longer part of the picture and Trump is nothing but getting older and it’s very clear that he is losing his step and he’s not the man he used to be.”

Lewis said Trump’s shuffling stumbles were apparent with the president falling asleep at public meetings and events, but also with his handlers’ removing him from exposing him less to the public.

“He’s having fewer and fewer of these rallies,” said the former Daily Caller writer. “If you look at 2025 he has not been out amongst the people … where he would feed off the crowd’s energy and test concepts. Instead, he’s surrounded by billionaires and weird ideologues.”

“His address to the nation was a complete fiasco,” said Sykes, arguing in favor of fewer public appearances still.

“Trump says the most vile, insulting things on a regular basis. He makes fun of disabled people. He’s insulting women, and yet one of those moments that broke through was when he was mocking [Hollywood director] Rob Reinder and his wife, and that cut through the popular culture,” Sykes continued. “I think people just like Rob Reiner movies. Not everybody is political and not everybody sees everything through politics. I’m not sure if it was the drip, drip, drip cumulative effect or was it a ‘holy sh——. What is wrong with this guy’ thing?”

“After four years of watching Sleepy Joe Biden to watch sleep Donald trump is one of the paradoxes of the year that he’s supposed to be this superman who’s falling asleep,” Sykes said. “The guy is clearly losing a couple of steps and he’s not going to get better over the next three years.”

Watch the full Charlie Sykes podcast at this link.

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