There’s a 92 Percent Chance Trump Is Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
The Neurological Tick Hiding in Plain Sight
Donald Trump has a new favorite number. It is not a code for a hidden militia or a reference to a bible verse. It is simply the number 92. He says it constantly. He applies it to everything.
It is the number of percentage points by which he claims to have won a county in North Carolina. It is the percentage of the Gulf of Mexico shoreline he believes the United States controls. It is even the amount by which he claims egg prices have fallen.
The sheer repetition of this specific integer is not just a quirky habit of a habitual liar. It is a blinking red light on the dashboard of his cognitive health. We are watching a president who is no longer just bending the truth. He is getting stuck on it.
A recent investigative report by The Atlantic highlights this bizarre pattern, noting that Trump seems to have this specific figure “on the tip of his tongue” regardless of the topic.
He told a crowd at this year’s turkey pardon ceremony that he won the county by 92 percent, when the real margin was 16 points. He’s claimed that the U.S. controls 92 percent of the Gulf shoreline, when the reality is closer to 46 percent - and so on and so forth.
This is not political spin. It is a neurological stutter. Trump appears to be caught in a loop, and the consequences of his cognitive rigidity are becoming dangerous.
The Medical Reality of ‘92’
Neuropsychologists have a specific term for what we are witnessing. They call it perseveration.
This condition occurs when a brain gets stuck in a repetitive loop, reusing a previous response even after the context has completely changed.
A healthy brain can retrieve specific, distinct data for different topics. A brain suffering from perseveration struggles to access new information and defaults to a “sticky” neural pathway to fill the silence.
Trump is not pulling these numbers from reports. He is pulling them from a broken cache in his working memory.
The evidence of this cognitive default is overwhelming when you look at the diversity of topics he paints with the same brush.
Trump claimed he won the veterans’ vote by 92 percent. He claimed he won the farm vote by 92 percent. He even claimed that the media had a 92 percent approval rating back in 2015, a complete fabrication given that trust in the media was at a historic low of 40 percent at the time.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that egg prices fell by 12.7 percent, yet Trump insists the number is 92 percent.
He is not lying to make himself look better in these instances. He is lying because his brain cannot locate any other number.
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When Hallucinations Start Wars
We might be tempted to laugh off these statistical hallucinations as the harmless ramblings of a confused elderly man. That would be a fatal mistake.
Trump is currently using this same cognitive glitch to justify military aggression. He has repeatedly claimed that maritime drug traffic in the Caribbean is “down 92 percent” due to his administration’s strikes on small boats.
This statistic appears to be just as imaginary as his egg prices. Experts confirm that global cocaine supply and demand are reaching new heights and that traffickers simply reroute their shipments when interdicted.
This fixation has deadly real-world implications, and the administration is using these fabricated metrics to paint President Nicolás Maduro as a “narco-terrorist” and justify a military buildup near Venezuela.
They are building a war room on a foundation of cognitive glitches. The 92 percent figure is not data. It is a veneer for a desire to seize Venezuela’s oil and rare earth minerals.
The Salesman Excuse vs. the Broken Brain
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, has tried to spin her boss as a “statistical savant.”
Some political strategists might argue that Trump is simply using a rhetorical tactic known as “anchoring,” where a negotiator throws out a high number to set the terms of the debate.
A salesman might use 92 percent to make a victory sound overwhelming. But a salesman adjusts his pitch to the client. Trump uses the same pitch whether he is selling eggs, geography, or war.
The “salesman” theory falls apart under scrutiny. Rhetorical strategies are choices. Perseveration is a trap. Trump’s affinity for the number 92 is not a savvy branding exercise. It is a “tell” in the highest stakes poker game imaginable.
The Commander-in-Chief is making decisions based on a brain that is stuck on repeat. He is navigating complex geopolitical crises with a mental map that only has one coordinate.
We are not dealing with a liar who knows the truth and hides it. We are dealing with a leader who has lost the ability to distinguish the truth from the number stuck in his head.
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