Can not disagree with that sentimentā¦enough already.
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Yesā¦there is a creepshow in there.
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See the President unravelā¦yes weāve been aware of this for a long time. Powerful Op-Ed on T.
Uh-oh. President Trump is in such a state of panic about his dimming reelection prospects that heās getting his lies mixed up and occasionally blurting out the truth.
āItās tough for Apple to pay tariffs if itās competing with a very good company [Samsung] thatās not,ā the president told reporters Sunday ā flatly contradicting the ridiculous and utterly false narrative that he has spent months trying to sell. Trump apparently forgot his standard lie that China is somehow paying ābillions of dollarsā in tariffs, acknowledging instead that they are taxes paid by U.S. companies and, ultimately, the American consumer.
This reflects more than just the difficulty of juggling multiple lies. Evidence suggests that Trump is melting down. Again.
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Yes, itās official: The President has now progressed from word salads to word smoothies. Heās not just chopping up his sentences; heās blenderizing them. Hereās his latest āexplanationā of his healthcare āplanā:
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Heās getting worse, watch this presser in which he says crazy shit about many things and then at one point (16:40) declares himself the āchosen oneā.
As he departed the White House for a veterans event in Kentucky, President Trump made remarks about gun background checks, the response of Denmarkās prime minister to the notion of the U.S. purchase of Greenland, and other topics.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?463598-1/president-trump-departs-white-house-louisville-kentucky
Hereās Daniel Daleās fact check on CNN
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At the event in Louisville, Kentucky, Trump singled out for praise WWII veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Woody Williams.
āThank you, Woody. Youāre looking good, Woody. Woodyās looking good,ā Trump said.
āThat was a big day, Medal of Honor. Nothing like the Medal of Honor,ā he continued. āI wanted one, but they told me I donāt qualify, Woody. I said, āCan I give it to myself anyway?ā They said, āI donāt think thatās a good idea.āā
Amid scattered chuckles, Trump concluded: āGreat, great people. These are great, great men and women that get congressional Medal of Honor. Thank you, Woody.ā
The presidentās assessment that he should receive the nationās highest award for acts of military valor followed his statement earlier Wednesday afternoon that he is āthe chosen oneā in relation to his administrationās trade conflict with China ā a proclamation he turned to the sky to deliver.
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See T lashing outā¦correlates to world view of Tās USA. His idiocy has been felt and registered.
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And again, more norm-bustingā¦click to see Daily News Covers - T and The Last Supper.
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President Trump lashed out at China in a series of tweets, saying U.S. companies were āhereby orderedā to start looking for an alternative to China.
Trump said he would respond later Friday to Chinaās announcement of new tariffs on U.S. goods.
Trump said China hadnāt followed through on an agreement to stop illicit fentanyl shipments and said he was ordering FedEx , Amazon, UPS and others to search for fentanyl in shipments from China.
#iherebyorder is now a thing. 
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In sixty seconds Brianna Keilar catalogs Trumps bizarre behavior over the past 24 hours. And that doesnāt even include his recent Crazytown thread on his tariff war that @Windthin, @Pet_Proletariat, and @dragonfly9 are talking about on Day 945.
And hereās a spot-on accounting from Eugene Robinson of the WaPo on how Trump keeps amping up his unhinged rants.
His initial point about how no one has even seen Trumpās current Press Secretary is especially telling. WTF? Sheās been in the position for two months and hasnāt shown her face once ā her entire job is to inform the public about what the Administration is doing ā but now all we hear is Trump himself spewing insults, disinformation, and downright nonsense ā at least whenever he takes a break from bragging.
The flood of bizarre pronouncements and behavior from President Trump is likely to get worse, I fear. He is now completely unfiltered ā and, apparently, increasingly untethered to reality.
Quick, can you name the White House press secretary? Do you have any idea what she looks or sounds like? Stephanie Grisham has held that job for nearly two months now, but if her name doesnāt ring any bells, itās because she hasnāt yet given a single official press briefing. Trump has foolishly decided to act as his own exclusive spokesman, putting all his prejudices, misconceptions, resentments, insecurities, grudges and fears on ugly display.
The result is what we witnessed Wednesday on the White House lawn. On his way to the waiting Marine One chopper, Trump paused and took questions from reporters for 35 minutes, unfazed by the midday 89-degree heat and smothering humidity. He made much news and little sense.
When he looked to the sky and proclaimed that āI am the chosen one,ā he was clearly referring to his trade war with China. But you had to wonder whether his egomania, which weāre accustomed to, might have blossomed into full-scale delusions of grandeur.
Again and again, he tried desperately to compare himself favorably with his predecessor, Barack Obama. He did so by telling ridiculous lies that are easily disproved by the historical record ā no, Obama didnāt institute the cruel policy of separating thousands of migrant families at the border, Trump did; no, Obama wasnāt denied permission to land Air Force One in the Philippines. You had to wonder whether Trump, who was the loudest voice in the racist ābirtherā movement, might have some kind of obsession with Obama and his continuing popularity around the world.
Trump said he canceled his planned state visit to Denmark because the Danish prime minister was ānastyā in calling Trumpās desire to purchase Greenland āabsurd.ā It is absurd, of course, but leave that aside. It happens that Obama is scheduled to visit Denmark in September. Might Trump have feared that he would be met with protests and then have to watch Obama bask in the adulation of much bigger crowds?
We also heard Trump repeat and amplify his offensive claim that American Jews who vote for Democrats are being ādisloyalā to Israel. The notion of dual loyalty is a vile anti-Semitic trope that goes back centuries. Does Trump think dredging it up somehow helps him politically? Or is it one of a host of deep-seated ethnic and racial stereotypes that he now blurts out because no one is empowered to stop him?
If the president seems to be spiraling out of control, itās no doubt because heās frantically worried about losing his bid for reelection ā but also because the insulation that once surrounded him has been stripped bare.
Insider accounts of the Trump White House have spoken of the rages, obsessions, fixations and biases that spill out of the president behind closed doors. But there were officials in place who could temper his rashest impulses. When he was chief of staff, John F. Kelly even managed to establish some measure of control over the flow of information to and from the president ā a necessity for any administration to be able to set priorities and follow through on them.
But Kelly is gone, along with everyone else who had the stature, experience and courage to at least try to make this mess into a functional presidency. The information flow? Now itās whatever Trump watches on Fox News ā or hate-watches on CNN or MSNBC ā and immediately tweets about.
Trumpās most influential remaining adviser is Stephen Miller, the anti-immigration zealot who survives by applauding and reinforcing Trumpās worst instincts. When Trump said Wednesday the administration wants to end birthright citizenship (which the Constitution guarantees), everyone could guess where that was coming from.
Cabinet members are like the guy in the parade who walks behind the elephant with a broom and dustpan. After Trump abruptly canceled his trip to Denmark, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hurried to offer words of reassurance to the Danish foreign minister. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, a strident budget hawk his entire career, has apparently just given up as the deficit soars toward $1 trillion.
The nation and the world need a competent, capable White House but wonāt have one anytime soon. Instead, weāve got a teetotaling president who sounds like the angry guy at the end of the bar, mouthing off about whatever he sees when he looks up at the television. Closing time canāt come fast enough.
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Yupā¦he is in super āunhinged modeāā¦and have been listening to all the MSNBC pundits, including Robinson talk about the freakish nature of it all.
Good recapping of all this Tweet slop.
Calling all Rās - WTF are you doing???
Seems like Fed Chair Powell knows to calm things down.
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And more questioning of Tās grasp on reality right now.
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Even my conservative voting relatives here in NZ have had enough. You would struggle to find one person in this country who approved of T.
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Yes - all of it, a take down from GOP Political strategist and author āEverything Trump Touches Diesā And it is generating a ton of hate mailā¦hit a chord obviously.
ā¦best line āBecause whatās happening now left normal five towns backā
Itās almost as if we need a recalibration of the insanity of the Trump era, a new set of definitions about what comprises normal presidential behavior.
Because whatās happening now left normal five towns back, stopped for smokes and brown liquor, and tossed the GPS out the window. This week wasnāt normal, and no amount of whistling past the graveyard will make it any different.
Donald Trumpās affect, speech patterns and overall delivery this week have been alternately horrifying and hilarious. A combination of waking hallucinations, verbal tics, lies surpassing even his usual fabulist standard, aphasias and lunatic blurtings, each public utterance was a moment where the eye of his aides either popped or rolled, depending on their level of cynicism.
His, um, creative pronunciations of common words, mayfly attention to the most ephemeral ideas and high-tempo tweeting left people wondering if a heapinā helpinā of large-animal tranquilizer might be in order with the next round of KFC.
This week wasnāt just the usual Trump performance art; it was a new, strange and somewhat frightening level of antic. Even his allies whispered to reporters that perhaps the stress brought on by the prospect of an economic downturn was getting to him. With no adult supervision in the White House left ā and no, Ivanka doesnāt count ā this is a man on the edge, and there is absolutely nothing and no one to stop him.
When I pressed a senior congressional Republican this week on Trumpās behavior, asking him to tell me anyone who could influence the man, he whispered, āHannity?ā
It was a question, not an answer, and because the answer is absolutely terrifying, no elected Republican wants to admit the truth. What weāre seeing is the real Trump, the unfiltered maniac, not the man who is occasionally chained to a teleprompter and forced to read Kellyanne Conwayās work product aloud.
His sweaty, heavy-breathing press sprays on the White House lawn left reporters in a state of stunned silence, the spittle-flecked rantings of a man determined to machine-gun out a hundred ideas in the time a rational person would discuss two.
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Watch this member of Denmarkās Parliament school T on effective wind energyā¦ She is outright mocking him. 
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āDonāt let this kissy kiss make you forget that Iām the sizzle part of this two-headed viper.ā
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And the hits just keep comingā¦there is unfortunately real truth to the thought that he was elected to those who wanted him to be their salvstion, despite all the easy-to-see flaws, and chicanery that went into his win.
Believers donāt need much evidence to dissuade them.
Trumpās supporters compare him to Jesus when they should compare him to L. Ron Hubbard, a malignant narcissist and the founder of the Church of Scientology who, like Trump, allegedly didnāt pay his taxes. But even this comparison is inexact. Hubbard, a prolific science-fiction writer, started a religion by design, supposedly as a way to get rich, whereas Trump became a cult leader haphazardly, when he ran for president and accidentally won. Trumpās previous experience consisted of multiple failures, in business and in marriage, but he managed to con a party and then a nation into electing him. āFailure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs,ā Eric Hoffer wrote in The True Believer .
Belief often requires a multitude of unbeliefs. If you believe Trump, you cannot believe anyone else. Trump put this explicitly last year when he admonished his followers, "Just stick with us. Donāt believe the crap you see from these people ā the fake news ā¦ Just remember: What youāre seeing and what youāre reading is not whatās happening."
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