-by NoahThe above clip, from The President Show, is satire, but the best satire has much more than a grain of truth to it. As you begin to watch it, it’s all too real. Such are the words and behavior of the 45th president of the United States. He lives in his own world, his own reality, and he’s dragging us down with it.History is filled with examples of lunatic heads of state.
Señor Trumpanzee is flipping out over Michael Wolff’s book-- completely deranged-- and claiming he’s “stable” and “a genius” and that Bannon has an 80 IQ. Trump is insane and should be impeached immediately under the terms of the 25th Amendment. The voters should deal with the Republicans who, knowing full well that Trump is a dangerous sociopath, enabled him anyway-- especially Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
Unless you’re a right-wing extremist you probably don’t know who Stephen Hayes, editor of the Weekly Standard, is-- although they often trot him out on Fox News, CNN and CNBC as a Republican commentator. Aside from a couple of crackpot biographies on Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, he’s best known as a writer for an insane book about how Saddam Hussein was working with al Qaeda (a GOP fantasy that has been proven wrong).
Rick Wilson is a Republican strategist and Never-Trumper who has become something of a celebrity on MSNBC for his pithy denunciations of the Orange Orangutan and his supporters, once referring to Trump “alt-right” supporters as "childless single men who masturbate to anime.” His Daily Beast column Friday,
The other day I suggested that there’s nothing left for Bannon on the public stage other than as a witness for the prosecution in the various Putin-Gate investigations and trials.
All over the world today, people are reading that NY Times Trump interview and concluding the U.S. is being led by someone severely mentally ill. How many times did he use the phrase “no collusion?” How many people haven’t figured out his techniques for trying to distort reality?
Trumpanzee-- no brain surgeon-- was at least smart enough to always know he was too intellectually limited (and perhaps aware that he is deteriorating mentally too fast) to actually be a real president in anything but name. And that was fine with him. When he offered Kasich the vice-presidency, Kasich was told he would be in charge of all domestic and foreign policies, while Señor T would just be in charge of Making America Great Again.
-by NoahWe've had other presidents with mental health issues. Some, like Nixon, were more than a little paranoid. Some say Reagan suffered from dementia, but, really, was it he who suffered? LBJ seems to have been barely able to keep his ego in check, and Bill Clinton's OCD need to be loved extended way too far. But Señor Trumpanzee? Well, Americans have always looked at the headcases that have run other countries from time to time and wondered what would happen if a completely, utterly insane person, a person completely untethered to reality, made it to the oval office.
Two fakes-- intention is always to deceiveTrump has a Renoir? No. He has a cheap knockoff of Renoir's Two Sisters on the Terrace, a masterpiece hanging in the Chicago Art Institute... but he's been lying to everyone who sees it for decades, claiming his junk is real. His junk is fake and everyone knows it. Trump is a fake.
-by NoahOn its surface, today's meme is hilarious. Señor Trumpanzee has, indeed, now told us that he has spoken with the President Of The Virgin Islands. If one knew nothing about this country, that may even sound somewhat reassuring. But, much as I am tempted, I can't call this meme a bit of levity for the weekend.
