What the hell is going on with Donald Trump today?

| 10:55 pm EDT May 5, 2018
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In addition to being a career criminal, a racist, a traitor, a serial sexual assaulter, a pathological liar, and a sociopathic malignant narcissist, there’s yet another quality that defines Donald Trump: he’s just plain weird. He says and does weird things that make no sense in any possible context. So when we say that there’s something even weirder about Trump today than usual, that’s saying something.

Here’s the essential question today: where is Donald Trump? Don’t get us wrong; we know he’s in Cleveland. But something is off, even by his standards. This morning he tweeted nothing at all. This afternoon, when he would traditionally have tried to make up for a quiet morning, he also tweeted nothing at all. In fact, aside from a generic “Thank you Cleveland” tweet that was clearly written by his staff, Trump hasn’t tweeted anything at all in nearly twenty-four hours. What’s even weirder is what he’s been saying on the ground in Cleveland.

Trump attended an event aimed at propping up the historically unpopular Republican tax scam bill for the wealthy, which the GOP now fears will end up costing it in the November elections. By all accounts, Trump remained largely on script at this event. Yeah, he threatened to “close up our country” in order to fix the imaginary immigrant crisis that his racist supporters so desperately want to believe in, but he always says something like that. Trump didn’t go off script, didn’t rant about Rudy Giuliani or Stormy Daniels, didn’t start randomly making false accusations about Hillary Clinton, didn’t bother to yell “witch hunt” even once.

In other words, Donald Trump has spent the day acting like, well, a sane person. He’s cautiously sticking to the script. He’s gone quiet in all other aspects. It won’t last, but considering that we’re nearing the 24 hour mark, it’s noteworthy. Historically, when Trump has occasionally done this, it’s been because he was scared mightily about a major bombshell scandal that was about to surface or get worse. We’ll see what it ends up meaning this time around, but something is off today.