Donald Trump is apparently holding a “press briefing” in a room full of drunk members of his own golf resort

| 7:14 pm EDT August 7, 2020
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When Donald Trump announced that he was going to hold a press briefing tonight at his New Jersey golf resort, Palmer Report predicted that the whole thing would be a disaster for him. His handlers had already announced that he wouldn’t be making any public appearances for the rest of the day. This meant that Trump decided on his own, on a whim, to throw together the press briefing. Now it’s gotten even uglier.

With minutes to go before the press briefing, reporter Jonathan Lemire called in to the Joy Reid show on MSNBC and revealed that the press briefing room was full of members of Trump’s golf resort who were walking around sipping cocktails. That means Trump is holding a “press briefing” with a bunch of his drunk pals who have all paid him to be there.

It’s still not clear if the drunk people will be cleared out of the room before the press briefing begins, or if they’ll be a cheering audience, or what’s going on here. But the optics of this should be nothing short of disastrous, considering we’re in the middle of a deadly pandemic and economic crisis. Trump is completely off the rails.