Trump goes full on Captain Queeg in off the rails presser.

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/self-destruction-of-the-president-trump-stuns-observers-with-off-the-deep-end-press-conference/

Is he even going to make it to November? It's a valid question at this point.

President Donald Trump clearly misses holding rallies filled with thousands of his fawning supporters hanging on his every self-aggrandizing word. So on Tuesday, at a press event ostensibly staged to discuss his new executive order withdrawing recognition of Hong Kong as independent from China, he decided to indulge himself by launching into a meandering campaign-style monologue for the reporters in attendance.

He leaped from topic to topic, sometimes in a single run-on sentence, and often failed to complete thought. He took aim at his election opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, attacking a laundry list of the Democrat’s policies that he twisted and distorted. Recalling a campaign theme he has long ignored, Trump called out Biden’s son, saying: “Where’s Hunter?”

And he returned to many of his favorite topics, such as immigration. He boasted of his relationship with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and warned that a President Biden would tear down the wall he has started to build on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Probably never been a time when candidates are so different,” Trump said.

There was no consistent thread or argument to his ramblings, aside from his own supposed greatness. It was pure stream of consciousness, supplemented by factoids apparently printed on notes on his lectern. He claimed to be the defender of African Americans at one moment because he favors school choice, but then slipped into attacking low-income housing and saying he’d preserve the suburbs — an unsubtle code for protecting white neighborhoods.

He lied so constantly that CNN’s Daniel Dale, one of the president’s most assiduous fact-checkers, noted that he couldn’t cover the speech in real-time on Twitter because there were just so many falsehoods.

[agingdem]

1. Falsehoods?

Trump's bullshit are LIES...no more euphemisms...CNN's Daniel Dale couldn't keep up with the LIES...not untruths, mistruths, falsehoods, misstatements...LIES goddamnit.. call them LIES!

[BigmanPigman]

2. A campaign rally disguised (poorly) as a presser.

Never happened at the W House before now, at least not to this extent. Why did any legit news organization cover this or allow it on TV? This was a campaign speech and they are giving him free air time AGAIN...hello 2016!

[lunatica]

18. MSNBC which I was watching, monitored it but didn't

run it. They said they would tune in if he said anything important. I have no idea what other channels did.

[BigmanPigman]

21. CNN did but I don't know for how long.

As soon as I see or hear him I immediately change the channel. It is best for my overall health and is a practice I have done for 4 years. I only had to see him on MSNBC with Steph Ruhle and I switched. Can't stand the sight of that fucker!

[GeorgeGist]

3. Anyone noticed that he was WASTED?

[PJMcK]

6. Isn't he always on uppers? (n/t)

[IronLionZion]

11. Dude is tripping balls all the time

[smirkymonkey]

13. Shouldn't the POTUS be checked for drugs just like most employees in the US?

The guy is higher than a kite most of the time. Somebody with an obvious substance abuse problem should not be allowed to occupy the highest office in the land. He needs to go. Now.

[BigmanPigman]

22. Who would check him? No one.

Anyone who may have even suggested it at one time was fired ASAP.

[smirkymonkey]

27. His physician? The surgeon general?

I don't know. Every president should be checked for substance abuse as far as I am concerned. Someone with that kind of responsibility needs to completely on the ball at all times. We can't afford to have a drug addict in charge of the nuclear codes.

[BigmanPigman]

28. Anyone with legit credentials gets fired.

He only goes to hack doctors and S Generals. That is one reason why we are in this mess. He fires everyone with one iota of credibility, especially where science, doctors and HIS health are concerned.

Even Anderson Cooper mentioned how he "was loudly sniffing and doing that thing with his nose today at his presser/campaign rally today, but everyone is numb to his bizarre behavior and not calling him out anymore". When I heard that I just nodded my head up and down in agreement.

Why aren't tons of our Dems leaders calling it out today? Are they tired? Are they waiting for Nov and hoping for a win?

[smirkymonkey]

29. I really don't know, but it's very frustrating.

The guy is clearly a drug addict. It doesn't take an expert to figure that out. Something needs to be done. The drug addiction alone is reason enough to render him incapable of doing the job. I would think that it would be grounds for Amendment #25.

[BigmanPigman]

30. I wonder if his niece knows anything about his drug use.

[smirkymonkey]

31. She must. It has been going on for a very long time and being a psychologist (although not a

pshychiatrist, who is an MD), she must be aware of the signs of people who are under the influence of drugs and how they behave. I am not an expert and even I can tell when he's doped up. She's a pretty sharp woman so she must be on to him.

[BigmanPigman]

33. I hope someone who reads the book fills me in.

[BigmanPigman]

34. Here is a fine example to make my point...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142537736


And another one...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-ronny-jackson-trump-doctors/index.html

[videohead5]

4. No windows

He basically said Biden would get rid of all windows.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. LOL..😳

[Ilsa]

19. Whaaaaat? Windows on what?

I bet he didn't say; he was just riffing, mindlessly.

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. He was claiming that all net zero carbon emissions buildings have no windows

This is, of course, insane. But it just seems worth clarifying if he was talking about panes of glass or operating systems.

[Ilsa]

37. Ohhh. I thought he had issues

with Windows 10, or Bill Gates, or the window to his scarred, corrupt, tiny soul.

[Nevilledog]

32. All windows matter!

[MichaelSoE]

35. Is that because he hates Bill Gates??

Go open source

[ashredux]

5. It was just plain scary. He's mentally ill.

[smirkymonkey]

14. He's out of his mind on drugs.

He also has some mental issues that he is self-medicating for, but someone who is that doped up all the time should not be running the country.

[William Seger]

7. "Probably never been a time when candidates are so different"

... said the obnoxiously self-obsessed, compulsively dishonest, willfully ignorant, relentlessly self-serving, delusional, inept, immature, petty and vindictive sociopath.

[caraher]

8. "Probably never been a time when candidates are so different," Trump said.

OK, he got that one right. It's hard to lie about everything, all the time...

[czarjak]

10. Sadly sick!

[ffr]

12. Well now I know first hand what Ron Goldman's family went through with O.J. Simpson

As well as Nicole Brown Simpson's family. You have someone clearly guilty (allegedly) who is slowly losing their sense of reality as their personal guilt eats away at their mind.

This feels just like that. Impeached tRump is just crumbling before our very eyes. He must have decades of guilt persecuting his deteriorating condition every hour, of every day, relentlessly. Impeached tRump is weak. Karma is going to eat him up.

[dflprincess]

15. To give him credit

he did stop short of accusing Biden of stealing the strawberries.

[lunasun]

16. China Europe didn't treat us right Biden China Biden Ms13 China Biden Welfare Jihadists & Liberals

Insane lies No windows cold office space + Nothing can go in the air! Low income housing everywhere! Open borders from Biden! Elect Me!

He hates everyone and everything so haters love his lies and dogwhistles

He is waiting for Chicago to call him because “they are ready to go”

This conference paid for by we the tax payers

[Cha]

17. Captain Queeg in his Lying Gaslighting Stupid

Campaign Rally.

[peggysue2]

20. Oh, good Lord!

“If I wasn’t here to stop it, we’d be in some mess,” he said with no sense of irony.

That's because--as we all know--irony died the moment Trump took the oath of office. The good news is he added substantially to the number of lies a POTUS can make in less than 4 years. I think he has the Guinness World Record wrapped up.

[jmowreader]

24. Guinness is the wrong group to record Trump's lie rate

No, we've got to speak to the Southern California Timing Association. Trump breaks the world land speed record for Unadulterated Bullshit every time he takes the stage, and they're the ones who maintain those books.

[peggysue2]

25. LOL!!

I like it!

[kimbutgar]

23. I like your description

But there is no Military commission to relieve him of his duty unfortunately.

[lastlib]

26. The only thing I can compare this performance to is an Isaac Asimov story....

..."I'm In Marsport Without Hilda"
He's on altered Spaceoline......

Word-vomit that would make Sarah Palin insane with jealousy ( as opposed to just being insane with stupidity....)