He’s doubling down, because the part of his brain that used to tell him not to say the first thing that floats into his stream of consciousness has turned to pudding.
“Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump insisted. “He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. In fact, it’s the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia. You know, the Russia hoax.”
“I think he hurt himself career-wise,” he continued. “He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape, or form. I thought it was very bad for our country.”
Hospitals and surgery centers will be attacked by the US military. Any patients in there at the time will be “acceptable losses” in our forever war on drugs.
Spock: Captain, the speech follows no logical pattern. Kirk: Random sentences strung together. McCoy: He looks drugged, Jim. Almost at a cataleptic state.
–Star Trek The Original Series, “Patterns of Force”
How many times does the felon and his flock of fools have to be reminded: one of the legal ways to remain in the country is to enter without visa and apply for asylum.
Come on, you don’t think that band of lickspittles and sycophants is going to come anywhere close to 25th Amendmenting him. Not even if he had a debilitating stroke.
Seriously. There are no adults in the room. Everyone, for your own sanity, recognize this and abandon any pipe dreams.
There is only a slim Republican majority, and at other times a slim Democratic majority.
Until the end.
Well I imagine there are probably some serious security issues that need to be resolved after some damn fool knocked down the East wing of the white house and left a gaping hole.
He’s a malignant narcissist. Trump thinks that the fact that he’s Trump - the sole meaning & purpose for the existence of the universe - gives him the right to do anything and be praised for it.
a. Wow. That’s a compelling read;
b. If true (and not taken materially out of context), it’s pretty staggering – if totally unsurprising – stuff;
c. Given the above caveat … I wonder if a feeling is starting to materialize in certain dark corners of MAGA, the GOP, the Manosphere, and the Trump Inner Sanctum that he’s genuinely vulnerable, and if what we’re seeing is basically trial balloons lofted by those insiders who are wondering what the next lines on their CVs might be.
Bob Woodward took Trump interviews “out of context,” too – that is, until you actually listened to the tapes (which thoroughly exonerated Woodward and corroborated his accounts).