Donald Trump responds in completely bonkers fashion after ten years of his tax returns surface

| 8:08 pm EDT May 7, 2019
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Somehow the New York Times has gained access to a decade of Donald Trump’s tax returns, from 1985 to 1994. They show that he lost a billion dollars during that decade, and that he’s either the world’s worst businessman or he’s been fraudulently posting phony losses so he can write them off. Either way, Trump’s response to the revelation might be even more telling.

The NY Times says it’s been putting this story together for quite some time. Along the way, it asked Donald Trump’s camp for comment multiple times. The first time around, Trump’s rep provided a detailed, if gibberish, financial explanation as to why Trump’s tax returns show such astounding losses. But later in the process, Trump’s rep changed his story entirely, claiming instead that these tax returns were “inaccurate” because they were merely transcripts of Trump’s tax returns, and not the actual physical documents.

This is an utterly insane explanation – particularly after having already confessed that they were indeed Donald Trump’s tax returns. We’d guess that at some point during the process, Trump decided that these couldn’t possibly be his tax returns, because then he’d have to admit that he’s the worst businessman in history, so he told himself that they’re not legitimate – and then he made his rep idiotically tell the NY Times that they weren’t legitimate.

We’re still waiting for Donald Trump to have an inevitable Twitter meltdown about this tonight or tomorrow morning. He’ll use phrases like “fake news” and the “failing New York Times” and worse. Based on the response he had his rep give the NY Times, this could end up being his most bonkers meltdown to date.