Donald Trump slurs his way through disastrous press conference

| 6:11 pm EDT August 13, 2020
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Donald Trump was never exactly “with it” to begin with. But in the forty-eight hours since Joe Biden fired up America by picking Kamala Harris as his running mate, Trump has begun to completely lose it. He’s been running around calling Harris a “mad woman” while also insulting numerous other women in politics.

Now Trump has decided to hold a press conference today, for no apparent reason. Not only did Trump bring no message with him to the podium, he spent a lot of time slurring his way through his words in rambling fashion. When Trump was asked about mail-in voting, he couldn’t even come close to putting together a complete sentence, and at one point he appeared to suggest that dogs are now secretly voting in elections.

It’s clear that Donald Trump has nothing left in the tank. He’s resorting to the most histrionic, simplistic, and repetitive of insults, because he can’t come up with anything new to work with. His near-inability to speak coherently, combined with his repetitive slurring, makes clear that Trump’s physical and cognitive health issues are getting even worse. He’s got nothing, and he knows it, and he’s throwing anything at the wall that he can.