Donald Trump is inexplicably standing on the White House lawn and reading quotes from Gordon Sondland’s devastating testimony

| 11:57 am EST November 20, 2019
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Donald Trump might as well just resign now. Gordon Sondland’s televised impeachment testimony today is enough to completely finish off what’s left of Trump’s presidency. Earlier today, the Trump White House made the strange decision to inform CNN that Trump was watching the hearings. Now Trump is issuing a statement about Sondland’s testimony that’s frankly bonkers.

Here’s what Donald Trump just said about Gordon Sondland, per the White House press pool: “I don’t know him very well. I have not spoken to him much. This is not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though.” Okay, that’s pretty weird. But a few moments later, things took a far stranger turn.

MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson just tweeted that Donald Trump is standing on the White House South Lawn, “reading – from handwritten notes – quotes from Sondland’s testimony.” She included a photo of Trump standing in front of Marine One on the lawn, reading some very large notes written in magic marker, which appear to say something along the lines of “I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo.”

There are frankly no words to adequately express how weird this is. Donald Trump’s handlers have clearly written down some out-of-context talking points from Gordon Sondland’s testimony, in the hope of cheering Trump up about how horribly today is going for him. But this is all falling apart for him in real time.