Donald Trump has his most berserk press briefing yet, after his own handlers tell him to stop having them
If Donald Trump’s political advisers weren’t such horrible people to begin with, you’d almost feel bad for them. They try to give Trump advice on how to do his grifting while putting on a sane public face, then Trump ignores it and does the most deranged thing possible – and Trump wonders why he’s so far behind Joe Biden in the polls.
Last night, multiple unnamed Trump political advisers leaked to the New York Times that they want him to stop holding his deranged daily press briefings, because the briefings are harming his political prospects. So what did Trump do today? Not only did he hold another press briefing, he spent about an hour and a half going bonkers on stage, as opposed to his recent early exits.
At one point Donald Trump insisted that dollar bills were physically larger in the 1950s. But the current bill size was adopted and implemented in the late 1920s, meaning none of them would still have been in circulation by the time Trump was born in 1946. It’s clear that as his cognitive abilities continue to fail him, his memories of his own youth are gone, and his mind is substituting a vintage dollar bill he once saw displayed in a frame on a wall or something.
Donald Trump also suggested today that there was a point in the past when antibiotics killed viruses, even though this was never true. He also semi-coherently claimed that staying home kills people, in an apparent argument that people are better off going out in public during a deadly pandemic.
Trump also insisted that Democrats want “open borders” – which should be the final straw when it comes to classifying his coronavirus press briefings as being mere campaign rallies. They shouldn’t be on the air. Shame on any TV network that’s still airing this harmful filth. And yet, based on the polls numbers and the acknowledgment from Trump’s own allies, these briefings aren’t helping Trump’s chances one bit.
