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babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:16 AM Feb 2019

Rachel Maddow Just Exposed How Broken Trump's Brain Really Is

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/12/rachel-maddow-trump.html

Posted on Tue, Feb 12th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Rachel Maddow Just Exposed How Broken Trump’s Brain Really Is


Rachel Maddow used Trump’s idea to have a 4th of July parade in DC when one already exists to highlight the broken weirdness of what is going on in Trump’s head.

Maddow said:

Every Fourth of July there is a fireworks thing in D.C. And parade from downtown with, you know, bands and Uncle Sam guy and the drum and fife and all the rest of it. Today President Trump told reporters at the white house he is considering a new idea that has just occurred to him, a new idea for America which is that he is thinking over, he is considering that maybe from here on out there should be a parade and fireworks in Washington D.C. Every year on July 4th.

How about that? He mused about this idea to reporters today. He said quote, we’re thinking about doing something that will perhaps become a tradition. Proposing fireworks for the Fourth of July, even in D.C. It’s a bold idea for the president today presumably this will be followed by an executive order proclaiming from here on out we’ll start a new calendar year on the first day of January. What?

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Also, he’s invented rap music and the idea of taking a vacation in the summer if you’re a school kid. I mean, I kid you not, the president today proposed to reporters in all seriousness from the White House that he’s thinking there should maybe be fireworks and a parade on the Fourth of July in Washington D.C. It could catch on, could become a tradition. The best news about this is that it’s not actually a terrible idea to have a parade and fireworks in Washington D.C. On the Fourth of July as evidenced by the fact, we always do it every year and nobody minds. People sort of like it. But what is going on in the head of the President Of The United States that he thinks this annual celebration should henceforth be attributed to him as if he dreamed it up. I mean, I try not to get caught up in this stuff and generally the stuff he says, but like the weird vagaries of the presidency are honestly really weird.





Trump is so lost in his delusions of genius and greatness that he believes that he is inventing things that already exist. This behavior was already witnessed by his habit of stating historical facts that everybody knows and then acting like it is bombshell information that he just came up with and is passing along to the rest of us for the first time.

I don’t give Trump the same benefit of the doubt cluelessness that Rachel Maddow does. I suspect that Trump is trying to use the 4th of July parade as a backdoor way to get his military parade or to throw a Fourth of July propaganda party for himself on the taxpayers’ dime. There is always a scheme and another shoe to drop when it comes to Trump’s ideas, and one suspects that his parade is another Trump attempt to make money and get more attention for himself because that is really what the Trump presidency is all about.
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Rachel Maddow Just Exposed How Broken Trump's Brain Really Is (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2019 OP
Yes - his idea of a parade is a lot different than ours. Claritie Pixie Feb 2019 #1
He has dementia and that yearly physical exam better be released livetohike Feb 2019 #2
Maybe he's dropping the idea of the military parade, but he still wants his parade FakeNoose Feb 2019 #3
He said this to a group of reporters peggysue2 Feb 2019 #4
I also wondered about that. MBS Feb 2019 #5
I'd ask a different question... charliea Feb 2019 #22
How many subjects does he introduce with "MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS, BUT..."? bullwinkle428 Feb 2019 #6
Senile dementia's a terrible thing to witness.What's even more terrible to witness is those in power Hekate Feb 2019 #7
His next idea will be a Green one. kairos12 Feb 2019 #8
In other news, tRumpy has this idea about sliced bread.... NoMoreRepugs Feb 2019 #9
T-rump invented rap music.... trusty elf Feb 2019 #10
That pic--- rusty fender Feb 2019 #24
He 'invented' it so he could raise funds for it. n/t yellerpup Feb 2019 #11
He can't see the parade and fireworks from Mar-A-Lago. CaptYossarian Feb 2019 #12
I'm just an internet doctor but, watoos Feb 2019 #13
Trump proposes a 4th of July parade in DC. Flaleftist Feb 2019 #14
He's still trying to get his military parade. calimary Feb 2019 #15
Apparently he's never actually been in DC on the Fourth of July. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #16
Assclown's been POTUS for 2 years and he never noticed a Julty 4th parade outside his window? Texin Feb 2019 #17
Oh, let him have his fireworks already crazytown Feb 2019 #18
"Donnie, you're out of your element." I do believe he's suffering from dementia. area51 Feb 2019 #19
I bet his thinking (yeah, he really doesn't think does he?) on this is, lark Feb 2019 #20
Untreated syphilis is a terrible thing. GoCubsGo Feb 2019 #21
First of all, Democrats ought to offer to trade him the parade and fire works for two things we want RockRaven Feb 2019 #23

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)
1. Yes - his idea of a parade is a lot different than ours.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:25 AM
Feb 2019

He wants tanks and bombs rolling down Pennsylvania Ave., just like North Korea.

So with that in mind, his parade talk makes sense.

livetohike

(22,157 posts)
2. He has dementia and that yearly physical exam better be released
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:29 AM
Feb 2019

and made clear what his actual health is. I’ll bet he couldn’t draw a clock.

FakeNoose

(32,714 posts)
3. Maybe he's dropping the idea of the military parade, but he still wants his parade
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:31 AM
Feb 2019

Maybe Trump is trying to get the city of Washington to throw him a parade with high school bands, majorettes, fire engines and boys scouts like every other city has. But see, this parade will be in HIS honor, and they'll all be wearing red hats and cheering for him. That would be almost as good as a military parade in his honor, right?

peggysue2

(10,837 posts)
4. He said this to a group of reporters
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:39 AM
Feb 2019

And did anyone in that group say, "Excuse me, Mr. Trump. But we already have that tradition on the 4th of July."

If not, why not? The way to counter a liar is to confront a liar. Not acquiesce and write a story later. The Trumpster needs to be called on his lying in public. In a polite but direct way. Think Nancy Pelosi.

MBS

(9,688 posts)
5. I also wondered about that.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:44 AM
Feb 2019

The parade is very well-attended- it gets LOTS of publicity. Surely every DC-based reporter knows this and one of them should have set * straight right there and then.
And, yes, Nancy Pelosi is an excellent role model for how to respond.
I agree with Rachel: this is one very messed-up person.

charliea

(260 posts)
22. I'd ask a different question...
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:56 PM
Feb 2019

Sir, how would your parade and fireworks be different than the ones done every other July 4th for over a century?

He might then blather on about what he thinks a parade would be, or why an aerial detonation of a daisy cutter would be bigly great.

#RESIST


Hekate

(90,773 posts)
7. Senile dementia's a terrible thing to witness.What's even more terrible to witness is those in power
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:02 AM
Feb 2019

...propping him up because they perceive that they and their ilk can benefit from this travesty.

Cabinet Secretaries and GOP Senate: I'm talking about you. Our country is being desteoyed, and for what?!

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
13. I'm just an internet doctor but,
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:56 AM
Feb 2019

I think maybe he didn't avoid those STD's, I think the syphilis is spreading.

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
14. Trump proposes a 4th of July parade in DC.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:56 AM
Feb 2019

This could literally be an Onion headline. That is too common with stories about Trump. This deranged lunatic can't be forced/voted out of office soon enough.

calimary

(81,430 posts)
15. He's still trying to get his military parade.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:01 PM
Feb 2019

Fluff it up with fireworks and a couple of marching bands and bring on the tanks! I think he’s itching to show his pal Vlad the old “Mine’s BIGGER!” thing.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,879 posts)
16. Apparently he's never actually been in DC on the Fourth of July.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:01 PM
Feb 2019

What pisses me off is that apparently no one in the room bothered to raise their hand and say, "Uh, excuse me Mr. President, but there are already fireworks and a parade on July 4 in the nation's capital."

Texin

(2,597 posts)
17. Assclown's been POTUS for 2 years and he never noticed a Julty 4th parade outside his window?
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:03 PM
Feb 2019

I guess he must have been at one of his endless rallies or at Mar a' Lago. On what planet must this imbecile spend most of his time? I seriously have never seen another human being (if that's indeed what he is) of his age with absolutely no clue how the world functions. He is the most utterly useless waste of protoplasm ever created as a life form. A waste of air. He is as dumb as a box of orange clown hair and equally useless - except to paste onto his own dumb dome.

lark

(23,147 posts)
20. I bet his thinking (yeah, he really doesn't think does he?) on this is,
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:52 PM
Feb 2019

" I totally raked in the dough from my Inauguration, think how much I could profit every single year if this is Trump branded"!

That's what this is about - well that and total stupidity, arrogance and dementia.

RockRaven

(14,988 posts)
23. First of all, Democrats ought to offer to trade him the parade and fire works for two things we want
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 01:26 PM
Feb 2019

Because why not try to get a concession or two out of him, since there's gonna be a parade and fireworks anyway?

Second, the list of things Trump falsely claims credit for originating is pretty long. But Salon did an article detailing 5 of them over a year ago. https://www.salon.com/2017/10/13/5-things-trump-said-he-invented-but-didnt_partner/
They were:
1) "Fake" (in reference to the news)
2) "Priming the Pump" (in reference to economics)
3) Building a wall (on the southern border)
4) "Rocket Man" (in reference to the leader of North Korea)
5) "MAGA" (as a campaign slogan)

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