Trump's new claim about debate raises fresh questions about his mental health

A claim by Donald Trump on Fox News that the crowd who attended the debate between himself and Vice President Kamala Harris "went absolutely crazy" when he was fact-checked led to both amusement and new questions about his mental decline on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday.

The big issue? There was no crowd.

Speaking with Fox host Greg Gutfeld, Trump complained that the debate moderators never corrected his opponent before mentioning the nonexistent crowd's reaction and, after they shared the clip, "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski couldn't help but mock him.

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With co-host Willie Geist laughing, Scarborough joked, "Well, I mean, yeah. You know, the stagehands were going crazy. "

"What debate is he talking about?" Brzezinski asked.

"Is he confusing the debate with a Taylor Swift concert?" Scarborough quipped.

Turning more serious, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire noted recent comments by the former president, who seemed to confuse Alaska with Afghanistan, after Scarborough asked him, "He doesn't remember from week to week. What's with that?"

"This is happening more and more for Donald Trump," Lemire began. "Let's remember, he is 78 years old. With so much attention on [President Joe] Biden's age when he was still in the race, it was overlooked that Trump is just a couple years younger and just as prone, maybe more so, to these verbal slips and confusion."

"It's harder to pick it up from Trump sometimes because he's so loud and has been doing this for years, so we may be numb to it," he added. "There is a new focus here about his mental capability and fitness for office — certainly one that Democrats are pointing to. These mistakes, the mix-ups are seemingly only increasing by the day. "

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