This is really happening: Donald Trump appears to have an imaginary friend named Jim
I wouldn’t have believed it myself if I hadn’t just read it in the Associated Press and again in the Washington Post: it appears Donald Trump has an imaginary friend named Jim. We’ve moved past the days of Trump strategically making up fake publicists like John Miller because he mistakenly thought it helped him professionally. We’re now at the point of Trump making up fake friends just so he can pretend he has friends. No really. Meet Jim.
The AP says that Donald Trump insists he has a friend named “Jim” who loves to visit Paris. In fact Trump spent the campaign talking about Jim to reporters, which is mind blowing since he doesn’t appear to exist, but it fell through the cracks of all the other sheer craziness emanating from Trump’s mouth. But now that Trump is indeed preparing to visit France, reporters have begun pushing the issue of whether “Jim” might go with Trump on his state visit. And the White House is refusing to respond as to whether or not Jim will be on the trip.
Somehow this is all really happening. This is a very real story, about an apparently very fake friend that Donald Trump just made up out of thin air. And yet based on Trump’s track record of having made up at least three fake people over the years, the odds are that “Jim” isn’t real either. Even the AP seems unsure of how to approach the matter editorially, settling for writing “Whether Jim exists is unclear. Trump has never given his last name.”
Donald Trump has an imaginary friend named Jim. And this is the guy with the nuclear launch codes. I don’t even know what to say. I urge you to check out the Associated Press story here), and just in case you think you’re hallucinating while reading it, you can also read it in the Washington Post here.
