It’s not like Trumpty was ‘all there’ prior to yesterday. His cognitive decline is obvious to all and has been for a while. Hell, he’s never been wired right. His sorry excuse for a father made sure of that. And it’s not like Donald tried to learn. A leading professor at Penn’s Wharton School who taught undergrads went on record calling Trump the dumbest goddam student he ever had. Given all that his explosion of ‘WTF?’ social media posts yesterday isn’t all that surprising when you think about it. Still, it’s worth a look!
As noted in lots of news lately including discussion here on Politizoom lately Trump has looked pretty bad. And specific stories about leg braces showing under his suit pants, outlines of a catheter bag, and most recently hugely swollen ankles and make up caked on like plaster to hide bruises on swollen hands has to be getting to him. Perhaps that’s why he went days last week without any public appearances. (I forget the leg dragging, stumbling gait) Someone thought it would be funny (it’s not) to start a rumor Trump was dead. The thing is, it got legs on social media and even MAGAs were wondering.
So, Trump made the BRIEFEST of public appearances yesterday morning (by brief I mean literally the few seconds it took to walk from the door to his limo) for a “golf outing” and he looked like hell. If he got out on the course at his club across the Potomac River even for riding a few holes in his golf cart NO pictures or videos came out. Nor were there any of him in the clubhouse. That of course fueled ‘Well, he’s alive but the way he looks he might be soon’ speculation. Trump couldn’t take it anymore.
As this article from The Daily Beast indicates Trump is very much alive. There’s enough functioning brain matter and neural connection down to his thumbs that Trumpty went on a real tear. Perhaps aided with some supplements provided by Dr. Ronny Jackson? Well, I don’t think it’s hyperbole to describe this Truth Social version of a ‘tweet storm’ as epic:
The president embarked on a Truth Social blitz late into Saturday night, posting more than 40 times in the space of just 10 hours on a truly staggering array of different topics ranging from the “Russia Hoax,” crime rates in Washington, D.C. and last week’s Chicago shooting to veteran suicides and the passing of wrestling legend Hulk Hogan.
That’s four or more posts every hour. For a guy who sleeps in every morning and HATES having to do any actual work ten hours generating that kind of output might have indeed put him as close to death as we found out he was when he got Covid. It was a disjointed ten hours jumping from topic to topic. Naturally it was pretty much stupid stuff, just ranting about whatever popped into what’s left of Trump’s mind. For example:
A big year ahead for the USA, maybe the BEST EVER, if the Tariffs are finally approved by the courts!!!” he posted alongside a congratulatory Labour Day weekend message, after explaining to followers that “Voter I.D. Must Be a Part of Every Single Vote” going forward, with “NO EXCEPTIONS!”
“‘Blue Slips’ need to go, bad for the Republican Party, and our Country!” he wrote in another post, without clarifying further.
Trump also filled his feed with AI-generated fantasies of himself as a police officer, SWAT commando, and cosmic overlord.
Still, his most impassioned post was reserved for a rant about Rose Garden renovations.
“I used, at the White House, the most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere. Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder,” Trump wrote.
He added: “Three days ago, while admiring the stonework, I happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extended more than 25 yards long. It was deep and nasty! I started yelling, ‘Who did this, and I want to find out now!’—And I didn’t say this in a nice manner. I wondered, ‘Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?’ Lo and behold, because of the fact that we’ve installed the finest security equipment anywhere, they brought back the stupid people, with their boss watching (in sunglasses!). It was a subcontractor that was installing heavy landscaping on a steel cart that was broken and tilting badly, with it rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone. I love and respect great workers and contractors, but something like this should never happen. Now, I’ll replace the stone, charge the contractor, and never let that contractor work at the White House again — But, how great is the video equipment? We caught them, cold. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“So Trump spent what is likely one of the longest work days of his life generating grievance posts as a way to prove he wasn’t dead.”
Or someone else had access to his phone.
Given enough drugs, anyone could ape his ‘style’.
Hell, Gavin Newsom’s been driving right-wingers crazy lately by successfully aping Drumpf’s “style.”
Yes, but Newsom is a Democrat which means he actually thinks for himself. It also means he’s smarter than most Republicans. Finally, he’s not trying to be “Trumpier than Trump” to one day inherit the MAGA Cult. He didn’t put in the effort to learn Trump’s heretofore unique style to one day become Trump, he did so because he knows how empty Trump would be if not stuffed full of shit. He’s not trying to impress MAGA, he’s got an audience of one Trump. He’s holding up a mirror that Trumpty can’t escape, much like the Knight of Mirrors in Man of LaMancha. The only difference is that Don Quixote was a good man at heart, while Don Cornholeone is a vile, disgusting person.
Somebody’s there to help him with his text-storms, hence the AI. Stephen Miller’s on his own, I believe, now that wifey’s gone AWOL with the seductive Herr Musk, so I suspect he’s available at all hours to fuel Trumpler’s rage.
Your reference to Idi Amin’s self proclamation to be King of Scotland might develop legs. After all, with his mother hailing from the Isle of Harris, T has a much sounder basis on which to make that claim. How can we get the thought from here to one, other or both his ears?
Denis, you wrote: “It was a true meltdown over something stupid because it probably registered with Trump that this won’t be the first time that stone gets scratched up. And it’s because HE made the choice (marble patio stones) that will allow it to happen again!”
Instead of ” this won’t be the first time,” I assume that you meant, “this won’t be the last time.”
Thanks for the piece.