The existential dread from the past is the same existential dread of today. We also do not know how things might turn out.

Alcohol must interfere with the anti-dementia cocktail of drugs he has to take every day.

100%

His behavior during the NABJ interview was classic Donny: a narcissist doing everything he could to deflect and avoid been held to account for his prior words/behavior.

Just happened that he let his racism shine through as he tried to worm his way out. Which shows how cognitively impaired he is.