Donald Trump semi-coherently admits the job he’s doing as president isn’t his “best thing”
As Donald Trump’s state of mind has become increasingly erratic, his own mouth has become more of a liability for him. At various times, particularly during speeches at rallies, he goes wildly off script. Sometimes he makes up stories that never happened. Sometimes he’s too incoherent to be understood. And sometimes he screws up and admits the ugly truth about himself.
During a pointless cheerleading rally in Ohio today, Trump was trying to promote his racist border wall and his nonexistent plans for improving America’s infrastructure when he blurted out this line: “I was always very good at building. It was always my best thing. I think better than being president, I was maybe good at building.” We think we know what Trump was trying to say here. But instead he admitted that the job he’s doing as president is not his “best thing,” and that he was more suited to his old life as a real estate developer.
Does this matter? Trump’s base still cheers on everything he says, and won’t see this as an admission that he’s not particularly suited to be president. Trump’s detractors already think he’s a massive failure. So it’s not as if this kind of admission is going to change any minds. But it’s significant nonetheless, because it’s the latest sign that Trump is having a harder time keeping himself from saying these kinds of things. It puts him that much closer to that inevitable moment in which Trump blurts out something truly harmful to himself, such as a Trump-Russia confession.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump also used the rally to remind us that an increasing majority of what he says is simply gibberish. For instance he served up this word salad during the rally: “They want people to come in from the border and they want, I guess, want, I can’t imagine they want, but certainly drugs are pouring across borders.” It’s a reminder that his failing mind is further collapsing at a rapid and alarming rate. Every major cable news outlet, including Fox News, cut away from his rambling rally speech today before it was over.
