Donald Trump having a “nervous breakdown”

| 8:54 pm EDT August 5, 2024
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Donald Trump has always been psychologically unhinged. More recently that’s been complicated by symptoms consistent with dementia. Now on top of it all, he’s losing the election to a Black woman, and if he loses he goes to prison. Accordingly Trump’s behavior keeps getting, well, weirder.

If there’s any concern that we might only be seeing Trump as behaving more weirdly than ever simply because we’re sick of him or we hate him, it turns out we’re not the only ones. A former Trump appointee is characterizing Trump’s behavior as a “public nervous breakdown.” It’s tricky to categorize Trump because he’s so many kinds of mentally defective, but that does sum it up well.

The cold hard reality that Trump has no idea how to campaign effectively or win anything, and he never has. The media essentially ran Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for him. When the media declined to run Trump’s 2020 campaign, he lost by seven million votes. The media was once again willing to do Trump’s bidding when he was running against Biden. But now that Kamala Harris has momentum and makes for a better story, the media is no longer carrying water for Trump, and it’s once again exposing that Trump has no political savvy at all. He never has. And now he’s senile and facing the pressure of going to prison on top of it all.