Donald Trump comes completely unglued
It’s difficult to point to a time in Donald Trump’s political life in which he could have been considered well put together. And in the days since the redacted Mueller report was released, dooming his presidency and ensuring that he’ll go to prison after it’s over, Trump’s behavior has become more unhinged than usual. But today in particular, Trump has come unglued on a level that’s jarring and noteworthy even for him.
It’s not that any one particular event sent Donald Trump spiraling downward today. Instead a combination of events have sent him off the rails. For instance, the news surfaced that North Korea billed the Trump regime two million dollars for the medical care of hostage Otto Warmbier, even though North Korea essentially murdered Warmbier before sending him home to die. This has exposed Trump as a terrible negotiator, something you already knew if you’ve paid attention to his decades of constant failure in business negotiations.
Trump can’t handle that truth, so he tweeted this bizarre quote, which he didn’t bother to source to anyone: “President Donald J. Trump is the greatest hostage negotiator that I know of in the history of the United States. 20 hostages, many in impossible circumstances, have been released in last two years. No money was paid.” No one has any idea who was supposed to have said those words, but then Trump added some words of his own: “Cheif Hostage Negotiator, USA!” That’s right, he misspelled “Chief.”
Then Trump tweeted “NO C OR O” and it took a minute for everyone to figure out that it was shorthand for “no collusion or obstruction.” That’s still as much of a lie as ever, but now Trump is taking to abbreviating it. Has he reached a point where he’s no unenthusiastic about his fake exoneration he’s now mailing it in, or was he afraid of misspelling words like collusion and obstruction?
In any case, Donald Trump has reached peak Donald Trump today, to the point that his Twitter account reads like a parody account. This is before getting to his bizarre defense of Robert E. Lee today, as he made his Charlottesville scandal even worse for himself. Trump has come completely unglued, even by his standards, in the latest sign that at least a part of his broken mind understands just how screwed he truly is.
