“Don’t be a baby”: Donald Trump comes completely unglued

| 11:57 pm EDT October 20, 2018
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We’re now just two and a half weeks before a midterm election that could hand investigatory control (and subpoena power) to House Democrats, and Donald Trump has officially run out of answers. At this point Trump has little else left than to tell increasingly ridiculous lies about immigration, in the hope of firing up his racist base, and scaring moderate white voters. The trouble for Trump: the inevitable followup question.

After Donald Trump told a whopper of a lie about immigrants trying to make their way to the United States, Emily Cochrane of the New York Times asked him if he had any evidence to back it up. Trump’s incredible response: “Oh, please. Please. Don’t be a baby. Okay?” No really, that was his answer. This is a whole new level of immaturity and patheticness even by Trump’s standards.

There was a time when Donald Trump had a confident new lie on the tip of his tongue for every reporter’s question, particularly on the topic of immigration. But this paints a rather different picture. Sure, Trump is immature and petulant and insulting and hostile by nature. But when he’s resorting to yelling “Don’t be a baby” at a reporter in the hope of fending off the question, it means he’s losing that news cycle. At this crucial juncture for his own fate, is Trump out of gas?