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Video circulating online showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clutching President Donald Trump’s arm to guide him during their Tuesday meeting in Ankara is drawing mockery and reviving questions about who is steering whom.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s new weapon is from an outdated GOP playbook \u2014 and may blow up in his face: analyst<\/a><\/p>\n

The clip, flagged by independent journalist Aaron Rupar, showed Erdogan clutching “a wandering Trump’s arm to guide him around” as the two leaders moved through the room at the NATO summit hosted by Turkey.<\/p>\n

The footage landed with particular sting given what Trump had just said about his host. Sitting beside Erdogan, Trump lavished praise on the Turkish leader as a paragon of strength, telling reporters that “sometimes you get along with the toughest people like him, and sometimes you don’t get along with the weakest, most pathetic people.”<\/p>\n

“You just don’t get along,” Trump added. “Maybe you don’t respect them.”<\/p>\n

The Turkish strongman Trump had just saluted as one of the toughest people alive was, moments later, physically maneuvering him across the room, leading onlookers to mock the image.<\/p>\n

“Trump\u2019s dementia is out of control,” X user Mykha\u00eflo Golub wrote to his 56,000 followers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s rhetoric now sounds \u2018eerily\u2019 similar to Putin\u2019s Ukraine invasion: retired general<\/a><\/p>\n

“Today in ‘if this was Biden,'” wrote fellow X user shayne571.<\/span><\/p>\n

The optics fed directly into a debate that has shadowed Trump’s second term. In April, 36 physicians from Harvard, Tufts, Columbia and George Washington University filed a statement into the Congressional Record warning of the 80-year-old president’s “rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline” and calling him “mentally unfit” to serve.<\/p>\n

An April Economist\/YouGov poll found 48 percent of Americans believe Trump is suffering modest or significant cognitive decline.<\/p>\n

Trump’s warm words for Erdogan fit a long-running pattern of admiration for authoritarian leaders. Erdogan has ruled Turkey since 2003, first as prime minister and, since 2014, as president. The Associated Press reported that opposition parties and human rights groups accuse him of undermining democracy and curbing freedom of expression, citing prosecutions of journalists, activists and opposition politicians.<\/p>\n

Trump is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Turkey since Barack Obama in 2015.<\/p>\n

Read more Moaning MAGA fans find new grievance as their own families dump them<\/a><\/p>\n

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Erdogan clutches a wandering Trump’s arm to guide him around pic.twitter.com\/MnP2JxdVA1
\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 7, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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