For someone who doesn’t drink or take drugs I am wondering how more bizarre his behaviour can get before he is led away.
Preparing for a visit to Denmark, he notes (or finds out for the first time) that Greenland is a dependency of Denmark. He offers to buy it. The Danish P’M says get fucked. President calls off the trip, citing how nasty the Danish PM is.
He says that The Bible is important to him – what parts? Well, all of it. Old Testament or New Testamenr? Well, they’re the same.
He “hereby orders” all US companies to pull out of China. He actually thinks that a Presidential Decree/Executive Order is something business people in the US will obey.
He says that when he went to El Paso, everyone there loved him – even the “hundreds of people” lying on hospital floors.
When will it end? Or more to the point, how?
Kjwilly says
You could add to the week the whole ludicrous retweet from a sycophant, describing Trump as “King Of Israel” and “the Second Coming Of God” (sic). Oh and he started a fight with Ford and GM as they are too “politically correct”
I still have a hunch that if his polling figures stay poor then he might quit blaming the media, fake news, etc.
Gatz says
Part of me thinks he knows exactly what he’s doing and is playing everyone perfectly, part of my thinks that even if doesn’t take illicit mind altering drugs then someone should be looking seriously at his medication.
Tiggerlion says
A lot of it is playing to the gallery, his gallery, but some is simply deranged.
That photo with him grinning and giving thumbs up while his wife cradles the baby orphaned in the El Paso shootings is stomach churning.
The three worst things he’s done are to implore Israel to block Democrat Representatives from entering their country (when they did so, he said it was nothing to do with him), he’s rowed back on background checks on the grounds that they are already strong enough (yes, the results are great!) and he keeps badgering the Fed, a politically independent organisation, to cut interest rates, while he wrecks the economy with trade wars.
davebigpicture says
He seems to have cranked up the crazy this week and there’s more to come at the G7 next week. The Washington Post, always heavy on anti Trump stuff has this, amongst others on its digital edition front page.
“With the global economy slowing and the U.S.-China trade war escalating, Trump arrives at G-7 with a list grievances.”
If Trump continues to become publicly more deranged, there’s a chance another Republican candidate could stand in next year’s election, especially if the economy goes badly. However, it seems likely that Trump will stand for a second term and could win unless the Democrats find a credible and likeable candidate of their own. If they try and field another divisive opponent like Clinton, the outcome could be another four years of chaos.
Sitheref2409 says
There is at least one putative challenger, but not a serious one (Joe Walsh, who is only slightly less deranged).
How was Clinton divisive? She clearly won the popular vote by a decent margin. Your argument is analogous to the trope over here that female candidates must be ‘likeable’ before they can be deemed electable, a bar to which male candidates are not held. I would far rather have an unlikeable but competent woman, but the system is stacked otherwise.
Clinton’s biggest issue was that she was a woman. I remember that when I first came to the US and started paying attention to the politics someone made the prediction that there would be a Black President before a female one because of the idea that America is far more misogynistic than it is racist. It seemed laughable at the time, but now?
davebigpicture says
Obviously you’re really close to this but from what I’ve read, gender was only part of it. This was an interesting read (for me at least)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/election-us-2016-37922959
Mike_H says
Clinton’s problem was that she was perceived as yet another “machine” politician and that is indeed what she is.
Not as extreme in her foreign policy as Trump but still unwilling to upset the Saudis or Israel and pretty much just as hostile to Iran. Only a little less likely than Trump to have got the USA into a war somewhere.
With the big banking cartel every inch of the way.
Unlikely to have made any significant progress on gun control, racism and the healthcare system.
Blue Boy says
I think any hopes that he’ll pack it in, or the Republican’s ditch him are just wishful thinking. A common view in the States seems to be that he may go over the top a bit, but the economy is doing well and fundamentally he’s doing the right thing for the US. I think he’ll stand again, and he’ll get back in, God help us.
Mike_H says
Who needs drugs when there’s Fox News and Breitbart?
I suspect the problem with Trump is that he’s no longer able to hoover up cocaine and his best pal who supplied him with all that young pussy has died in jail.
Withdrawal delusions.
Colin H says
Where are all those people who assassinate US presidents when you need them? The man is a danger to the planet.
Tiggerlion says
All the mad people who own guns are on his side but I’m sure you don’t mean anyone any harm.
Colin H says
If the world has to have mad people with guns, you would wish them to point them at each other. Alas, this never seems to be the case.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Lead me to the grassy knoll, hand me the rifle.
Fifer says
There’s a queue!
Vincent says
Maybe the current madness is a distraction strategy from unfortunate Epstein-related revelations? I can’t imagine DT turning down sexual favours from procuring friends if offered. That, and he is thick as shit in a bottle (albeit occasionally canny). The best decisions in his organisation will come from his employees, so what you see now is his real ability, and he gets through advisors quickly in the White House as they see what they have to work with. I also think he was a coke head back in the day – and with his money, he could be really addled. Lastly, with not a lot of surplus cerebral capacity, ageing will get to his brain quickly. We might be starting to see it now.
dai says
What evidence is there that he was a “coke head”?
Vincent says
No proof, but the was known to provide a lot of it at his parties in the 80s and 90s, and why wouldn’t a rich bit of party trash not use it in NYC from the 70s onward? Not as if it’s smoking or mind-expanding – and can be good with sex (allegedly). He likes sex.
Kjwilly says
Given that he is a well-known tee-totaller and non-smoker, i’d think it a stretch to think he was a cokehead. And I hate the guy!
Black Celebration says
Not sure if Stalin was a non-drinker all the time but a tactic he adopted was to have a social gathering with people he suspected as subordinates. He would drink water while everyone else were given vodka. A few hours in, things would get merry and he’d play along, pretending to be as bum-faced as the rest of them. He would then find out what people really thought. Needless to say, many people only attended his parties once.
Beezer says
When? At the earliest, November 2020. How? At the ballot box.
He’s been a vile, venal maniac since before the election in 2016 and no-one that matters has been able to put a dent in him. Wrongly, the liberal, and the bulk of the American mainstream media were convinced the Mueller Report would expose him – plainly and unequivocally – and his family as guilty of traitorous activity. While it definitely shows him as obstructing justice it turned out Mr Mueller wasn’t asked to (and couldn’t anyway) bring charges. Do’h! Congress has to and because the Democrats know they’d never get the two thirds vote to impeach, they won’t. Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, make statements that she wishes for all the current investigations to complete first to make an impeachment watertight. But even then the Republican Party is so in his thrall a majority vote can never be certain.
This has infuriated the left wing liberal media. Rightly, I think. Even if it doesn’t pass get it put on the historical record that an impeachment was attempted. Never mind ‘triggering’ his base. They’re permanently triggered 24/7.
What has mystified some in the media is that Mueller didn’t attempt to investigate his financial dealings with Russian oligarchs. The suspicion is that the most obvious and still smoking gun is his alleged money laundering for them since he pissed away billions 25 years ago.
So, he’s skated past all of this and It’s now the latter part of 2019. Nothing will knock him over now until the next election. He could indeed shoot someone on 5th Avenue before then and no-one will hold him to account for it. Not now.
Terrible times.
fentonsteve says
I only found out he’s teetotal a few weeks ago. I had assumed his overnight tweets were, like many eBay purchases, made under the influence. If that’s what he’s like sober, then we really are all doomed.
retropath2 says
Is he teetotal through choice or medical advice/necessity? (I hesitate to use the term ‘in recovery’, as, if this is that, god help us when he’s better……
Tiggerlion says
No. Always teetotal.
This is the way he has always been and always will be.
We forgot another couple of things: he is the least racist person ever (you can judge a man by the company he keeps) and he wants to abolish the ‘birther’ entitlement which allows automatic citizenship to those born on USA soil.
The truly terrible thing is that his behaviour seems to be regarded as acceptable by the Republican Party and a fair chunk of the American electorate.
Gary says
I think he blames alcohol abuse for his elder brother’s death (in his early forties).
Tiggerlion says
https://youtu.be/9zoA0L2u-JQ
Jackthebiscuit says
FWIIW, I would like to see him win the popular vote but lose the electoral college next year. If that were to happen I think his head would explode.
Wishful thinking sady as I believe that he will win next year.
I truly despise him, but I believe that he is far better at motivating his base & getting them out to vote. He also has the SCOTUS onside. Add in electoral “dark arts” from the Republican Party & I think he is going to win again.
As I said at the top of this post, my choice is to win the popular vote convincingly but lose the electoral college.
If only…