Donald Trump is falling to pieces

| 4:30 pm EDT April 3, 2019
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If we’re going to be stuck with a disastrous villain like Donald Trump for a little while longer, we at least deserve a little comic relief here and there – and we keep getting precisely that, thanks to Trump’s sometimes astounding levels of incoherence and weirdness. Yesterday represented one of our biggest laugh breaks to date. But it’s important to note that something is wrong here. Profoundly wrong.

There are plenty of people who randomly misspeak from time to time, whether it be mangling a word, or flubbing a basic fact. It doesn’t mean something is wrong with them. But yesterday Donald Trump twice tried to say the word “origins” and instead said “oranges” both times. Then, clearly aware that he was unable to say the word “origins,” he tried to clarify that he meant “beginnings.” Then he managed to correctly say “origin,” the singular form of the word. Then he tried again to say the plural form “origins” but it came out “oranges” a third time. Then Trump claimed that his father was born in Germany, when his father was born in New York City.

If you think of this strictly in terms of an evil villain humiliating himself, the whole thing was a well-earned opportunity for the nation to laugh at the creep. But let’s be real here. If anyone else were misspeaking in this particular fashion, you’d be left to conclude that they were in the midst of a rather pronounced cognitive collapse. Is he suffering from a medical condition that impacts cognitive abilities, or is the psychological stress of his worsening criminal scandals preventing his brain from functioning? Either way, this guy is falling to pieces.

House Democrats began firing off subpoenas yesterday, with more coming today. It’s a matter of time before at least portions of the Mueller report begin surfacing, even as Donald Trump’s numerous other scandals play out in public view. Trump is in the fight of his life, and from the sound of it, he’s not even close to being in the proper condition to fight these battles. Something is very wrong with this guy’s ability to function on even a basic level, and it’s only going to get worse.