Donald Trump descends into late night madness
Donald Trump illegally revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan yesterday, partially because he was just that desperate to change the narrative away from the debate about whether he used the N-word while he was on the set of the Apprentice. What’s remarkable is that the stunt with Brennan went so poorly, by the time the day was over, Trump was urgently trying to change the narrative yet again. It didn’t go so well for him either.
In a span of about an hour and a half last night, Donald Trump descended into late night madness. He posted tweet after increasingly deranged tweet, as if he were working his way through an acid-tinged sugar high whose effects just kept making him more frantic. Here’s the odd part, though. Everything that Trump tweeted was a quote from someone else.
Most of them came from his favorite corrupt lackeys like Sean Hannity and Dan Bongino. For some reason Trump couldn’t seem to find any words of his own, instead letting his idiot surrogates do the talking. It’s enough to make you wonder if Trump reached a point of exasperation where he simply ran out of words, or if perhaps one of his handlers was posting these pre-approved quotes while Trump was passed out in a bowl of cheeto dust. Then again he did accidentally tweet “GONG” in all caps when he meant “GOING,” so maybe it really was him.
But the upshot is that Donald Trump and his team clearly didn’t think that revoking John Brennan’s clearance provided them with the narrative they were looking for. When you’ve just fired off a risky high stakes distraction, and you still feel compelled to go berserk all night trying to change the subject yet again, it’s a sign your gameplan isn’t going the way you’d hoped. Today is going to be, well, one of those days.
