Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman, reporting for The New York Times, have finally noticed Donald Trump is a rambling, incoherent mess.

Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side. Except that there was no audience. The debate was held in an empty hall. No one “went crazy,” as Mr. Trump put it, because no one was there.

Anyone can misremember, of course. But the debate had been just a week earlier and a fairly memorable moment. And it was hardly the only time Mr. Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality lately. In fact, it happens so often these days that it no longer even generates much attention.

He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.

It’s nice that the “paper of record” would finally acknowledge what everyone who pays attention to this stuff has been seeing for years. They jumped on Biden for getting “gish galloped” in the debate and ignored the raging lunatic lying constantly. Finally, because the Times has an article, now other mainstream outlets will unleash their similar treatise on the subject.

In case you didn’t know, Fred Trump Sr. had dementia. Frankly, I don’t think Donald Trump has dementia, but he’s obviously slowed down considerably and is not as sharp as even a few years ago. He can’t hold a thought in his brain for more than a few seconds, and worst of all, he has no curiosity.

Sad.