50 ways Trump is out of his mind
MAGA and the media must stop laughing off this dangerous situation
Here are 50 examples of unhinged behavior by a man who possesses the nuclear codes. Donald Trump’s supporters and some journalists ignore or laugh off his individual bizarre actions. Taken together, they’re cause for deep alarm.
1. Trump blamed Rob Reiner for his own murder, citing “the anger he caused others” by criticizing Trump.
2. He told a rally crowd that dead golfer Arnold Palmer had a large penis.
3. He posted an AI video in which a cartoon Trump used a warplane to drop shit on protesters.
4. He warned Canadians that if they made a trade deal with China, the Chinese would abolish hockey in Canada.
5. He posted a video of the Obamas as apes.
6. At a rally, he bizarrely stopped the proceedings and stood on stage swaying to music for 39 minutes.
7. He said six Democratic members of Congress were guilty of a crime “punishable by DEATH!” when they reminded soldiers of their duty to refuse illegal orders.
8. He called Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator,” but when asked about it later, he said, “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that.”
9. As death and destruction racked Gaza, he posted an AI video of “Trump Gaza,” an imaginary resort with a golden statue of himself.
10. He said: “They have this new word called ‘affordability.’”
11. He said the phrase “priming the pump” was coined by him “a couple of days ago.” (It’s been used in an economic sense for about a century.)
12. He said he invented the word “equalizing.” (It’s been around since 1599.)
13. He used a Sharpie to doctor a government weather map to show a hurricane threatening Alabama when it wasn’t.
14. He said he felt worse about ICE’s murder of Renee Good because Good’s parents were Trump supporters.
15. He told graduating West Point cadets a story about a businessman’s trouble with his “trophy wife.”
16. He posted an AI video about “medbeds,” a kook theory that the elite cure their illnesses with high-tech medical beds that they hide from the rest of us.
17. He said falsely that Portland, Ore., was “burning to the ground ... you don’t even have stores anymore.”
18. He said undocumented immigrants accounted for “107%” of job growth under Joe Biden. (Impossible.)
19. He said he’ll drop prescription drug prices “1,000%.” (Impossible unless he pays us to take drugs.)
20. He said he’s the “father of IVF.”
21. He claimed Article 2 of the Constitution means “I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” (Um, no.)
22. He said about Covid: “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
23. He said: “They call me the president of Europe.”
24. He posted an image of himself as Lt. Col. Kilgore from the movie “Apocalypse Now,” declaring that “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning” and Chicago would “find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
25. He threatened to block funds for a New York-New Jersey tunnel unless Penn Station and Dulles Airport were named after him.
26. He wants to make Canada “the 51st state.”
27. He praised Montana politician Greg Gianforte for a criminal assault in which he body-slammed a reporter.
28. He posted an AI video of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sporting a sombrero and a thick mustache.
29. His official White House social media account posted a doctored picture of a Minnesota protester to make it look like she was crying.
30. He called Obama “the founder of ISIS.”
31. He said it was “absolutely sabotage” when a United Nations escalator abruptly stopped while he and Melania were on it. (Turns out, a videographer with Trump’s delegation accidentally tripped a safety feature.)
32. He called for higher home prices, saying he didn’t want “somebody that didn’t work very hard” to be able to afford a home.
33. He suggested bringing “light inside the body” and injecting a disinfectant to cure Covid.
34. He called Somali immigrants “garbage.”
35. He lied that Haitian immigrants were eating house pets.
36. He said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
37. He called his political opponents “vermin.”
38. Asked about child sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, he said, “I wish her well.”
39. He told Norway that because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize he felt no “obligation to think purely of Peace,” and demanded U.S. ownership of Greenland (held by Denmark, not Norway).
40. He said Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, “has done an amazing job.”
41. He said the Battle of Gettysburg was “so beautiful in so many different ways.”
42. He falsely quoted Robert E. Lee as saying, “Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.”
43. He cited “the late great Hannibal Lecter.” (Who is neither late nor great.)
44. He lied that “your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later” after school-ordered surgery to change their gender.
45. He said Napoleon’s “one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.”
46. He compared himself to a gangster: “I’ve been indicted more times than Alphonse Capone.”
47. He said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” (Crazy to say it even if you think it.)
48. He said his uncle John told him he taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Never happened. Kaczynski didn’t attend MIT, and Trump’s uncle died 11 years before Kaczynski was identified as the Unabomber.
49. When CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked a question about Jeffrey Epstein, who raped children, Trump criticized her for not smiling.
50. He keeps bragging about passing cognitive tests.
This week’s media atrocity
CBS News shared statistics put forth by border czar Tom Homan and a Homeland Security news release claiming huge increases in assaults and threats against ICE agents. CBS dutifully said in its news story: “Neither Homan nor the release gave a timeframe for that surge, nor did they give a source for the assault and threat claims.” So why did CBS amplify their statistics?
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To the list of 50 insanities, please add the fact that Trump claims that solar power and wind power are not possible because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't constantly blow. There's also the fact that he called a female reporter "piggy." Oh, and then there's that obnoxious ballroom and the grotesque arch. Worse, he thinks he is "popular." The list goes on, I guess.
My thoughts back in 2016 when he mocked the press member that had a disability
Nice to have people catching up and actually SAYING something about this.