Donald Trump has psychotic break during utterly deranged press conference
We warned you that Donald Trump’s press conference this afternoon was likely to be very, very ugly. Even we weren’t prepared for just how ugly things were. Trump kicked things off by rambling about China, but predictably, the first question was about the mounting sexual assault allegations against his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. From there, things went sharply off a cliff.
Donald Trump couldn’t stop sniffing his way through his answers, which were largely incoherent. At one point Trump began theorizing that George Washington probably had skeletons in his closet, and that might have been his most lucid answer. After Trump had begun things by calling on three male reporters, the third of the bunch asked Trump to call on a woman next. That led to MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson taking the mic. She asked him to state “yes” or “no” whether he thought Kavanaugh’s three accusers were liars.
Trump refused to directly answer the question, and instead he began rambling about how he might have to watch tomorrow’s testimony to decide whether or not he believes Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. He glossed over the part where his Republican Party is refusing to allow Kavanaugh’s other two accusers to even testify. Strangely, Trump began hedging his bets by talking about the possibility of picking a replacement nominee if things go poorly for Kavanaugh tomorrow.
Hallie Jackson tried to keep asking questions, but Trump tried to move on, suggesting that she was being unfair to the other reporters. Trump then asked the room if they agreed, and they ended up siding with Jackson. Trump later cut off another female reporter who was asking him about the sexual assault accusations that have been made against him. Trump then went into a rant about how four (or perhaps five) women had been paid off to make up false accusations against him. To be clear, this never happened. Then Trump told the female reporter to “please sit down.”
At one point Trump tried to change the subject by calling on a reporter who asked a question about Venezuela. Trump then went on a rant about Cuba, and began attacking “President Bama.” No really, he pronounced Obama’s name wrong. Somewhere in there he randomly accused Obama of having had his finger on the button to start an unspecified war. At one point Trump began ranting about “Mr. Pillsbury,” and while he was referring to a real person, his performance up to that point was so deranged, people just assumed he was referring to the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
When Trump was asked about whether or not he’s going to fire Rod Rosenstein, he responded by confessing to felony obstruction of justice: “If you want to call it obstruction, that’s fine.” He then said that he might delay his planned meeting for tomorrow with Rosenstein. Trump then went on to reveal that his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had just finished making a joke about the 25th Amendment. Then he went on rant about how he’s going to win reelection in 2020, because the Democrats are “con artists.”
Trump later launched into an impersonation of a prank caller who was pretending to be a Russian. He referred to a reporter of Kurdish ethnicity as “Mr. Kurd.” He accused another reporter of being from the “failing New York Times” when she was actually from PBS News. Trump then insisted that the New York Times is going to endorse him. After Trump had been rambling incoherently for a full hour, he began insisting that the United Nations audience didn’t actually laugh at him during his recent speech. Then he referred to Brett Kavanaugh as a “tremendous genius” before detailing a phone call he had with Sean Hannity. He then claimed he’d already done five previous press conferences today with reporters who were “screaming like maniacs.”
We just witnessed a man having some sort of psychotic break in front of the television cameras for all the world to see. Donald Trump proved today what we already knew: he’s mentally deranged and mentally incompetent. Not only should he be impeached, he should be removed in a straitjacket.
