Donald Trump has bizarre meltdown about the Washington Monument and no one even knows what he’s talking about

| 12:59 pm EDT July 12, 2020
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Now that a majority of Americans have finally decided that it’s time for Confederate monuments and statues to go, Donald Trump is siding with the Confederate racist traitors even more loudly than ever. He also appears to think Confederate leaders were Founding Fathers, or… something.

In an incoherent and perhaps hallucinatory tweet this morning, Donald Trump decided that protesters are now trying to knock down the Washington Monument and other similar memorials. It’s not clear how Trump thinks protesters are somehow going to knock down a 555-foot monument – or why Trump thinks “Monument” is spelled “Monumrnt” – but that’s nonetheless what he’s now focusing his time on:

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Donald Trump needs to get a grip. He’s realized that he’s on the losing side of the Confederate monument debate, so now he’s creating an imaginary scenario in which protesters are trying to somehow bulldoze half of Washington DC, just so he can come out against these imaginary protesters. This isn’t a winning strategy either. Trump has no idea what he’s even trying to do anymore.