As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’
Donald Trump spent Monday morning labeling the turmoil in the global financial markets the “Kamala Crash,” giving Republicans hope that he might turn his focus to an economic message.
It didn’t last. By midday, the former president was already back to re-litigating his controversial appearance in Chicago last week, where he questioned Kamala Harris’ Black identity and suggested a major network journalist should be fired — “I didn’t know who she was, she was nasty,” he told a livestreamer.
Republicans on Monday reeled from Trump’s undisciplined approach to the opening stages of his new general election matchup with Harris — following a weekend that saw him praise Russian leader Vladimir Putin while smearing Harris as “low IQ,” and “dumb” and attacking a popular swing-state GOP governor whose turnout operation he may need in November.
“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and former Trump administration appointee. “This is a guy who cut through the Republican primary like a knife through butter. This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race. And now this is a guy who cannot come to grips with a competitive presidential race that would require discipline and effective messaging. And we’re seeing a candidate and a campaign absolutely melt down.”
Yeah... no he didn't. They just knew they couldn't get enough Democrats energized to vote. And that was totally due to Biden and nothing to do with what Trump did.
I truly believe for anyone watching the debate that golf conversation was the end of both of their political careers.
The golf debate was the wtf are we even doing moment for me. It turned out to be a very powerful moment that allowed a new democratic candidate to rise above two old men blathering about their golf game.
Kamala is gonna tee up and out-drive them both anyway.
I admit I didn't watch it and I only scanned the coverage because I really didn't think it was going to change people's minds enough for Biden to drop out, although I clearly was wrong.
So what was the golf conversation?
Oh yeah well im bigly better at gulf than you
What? What? Fat chance, jack
etc.
Sounds very stupid. I don't regret not watching.
Honestly watch it. The whole debate is rough and then we hit this and I could feel the souls of Americans just huff. The whole debate Trump is saying nothing nonsense with no point. Biden is half awake and limping through it. Then this insane conversation takes place
https://youtu.be/5VyAfQBV2_c?feature=shared
At any moment any one of them could've bodied the other in this conversation and probably won the presidency if you had anyone more reasonable, intelligent, lucid there that would've been such a moment. Instead I'm sweating from cringe. With the state of everything, why the fuck are you arguing about golf?
Wow, I hadn't watched any of it either but damn. Trump just being Trump by bragging about shit that only sounds impressive or meaningful to dumb people and then Biden, looking good until he opened his mouth, showed that maybe he should even resign right now because he's not all there and barely has any energy.
At some point, if we live long enough, there's a sudden and drastic decline where we go from just an older version of ourselves to elderly. Looks like Biden hit that point sometime during his current term.
I wonder if he's the first president to do so. Reagan had Alzheimer's, which can be worse mentally, but I don't know if he had the physical decline also.
That said, elderly Biden would still have been a better option than Trump. Not great (I don't think the Democrats will ever offer an option that threatens the status quo), but better than Trump.
they were arguing over Joe's performances
That's almost as stupid as Trump and the others on stage arguing about penis size during one of the primary debates in 2016.
This so much this ...trump is a felon and a threat to America but sure Joe say you'll golf with him ...ffs
That might be what really happened, but what does Trump think happened?
Obviously Trump thinks it's all about Trump. But Matthew Bartlett isn't Donald Trump.
Have you ever seen both of them together at the same time? 🤔
No, but his name isn't John Barron, so it can't be Trump.
(How fucking weird is it that he named his son after the fake name he used to give to the press to promote himself?)
Ugh. I'd forgotten all about his alter egos. My brain just cannot remember all the stupid shit he's done.
I want him to show up to his next rally with a different kind of bronzer and a brown wig claiming to be the new nominee, John Barron, Man of the People. Preferably with a completely insane back story about how he grew up poor in the south and joined a union at 13 at a steel mill.
You left out the lying coward, rapist, racist, bigot, convicted felon, pedophile, old, illiterate, senile parts - but I sense you're not a fan?
also missing weird
Hey, now that you mention it, he is kind of a weird one!
That old loser should withdraw from the race.
Vance/Couch 2024: Because dolphins are fuckable too!
Don't forget the latex glove!
Vance did once and he and Couch had twins:
Where are his legs?
Got lost in the pattern buffer.
hahaha!!!
Stably diffused, just like that extra finger.
Please. R wants him as their dictator, that's why he swept the primary, and Biden pummeled himself out of the race, Trump just had to make it through a couple hours without becoming completely unhinged, and he lied on average once per speaking minute during that time.
Surely it was way more than one lie per minute
Actually you are right, I misremembered! :)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-complete-list-of-all-of-trumps-debate-lies/ar-BB1p3xZb
No.. their policy is blame immigrants and convince their constituents that the whip that hits them and the boot that stomps them hurts immigrants and people of colour more than them. Meanwhile they pass bills that deregulate the capitalist class and punishes the workers.
Edit: I am actually just elaborating your description which is more succinct
Not to worry. I heard from El Duderino that not everyone is into the whole brevity thing 😉
I hear or read the things he’s said, and it absolutely blows my mind that anyone can’t understand how absolutely stupid/demented he is.
The guy is a moron.
His supporters view him as smart. Because compared to them, he is. That should terrify everyone
'A stupid person's idea of a smart person'
A dumbass' smartass, if you will.
Weird.
I can handle about 10 seconds of him speaking and I start to feel my brains leaking out of my ears.
How the fuck anyone can listen to him is beyond me.
You remember that episode of the Boondocks where Huey watches junk TV and becomes so exhausted and apathetic that he can no longer think for himself by the end of the episode? That's why I refuse to even attempt to listen to Trump. Honestly I think that's how people get suckered in by Trump; he wears down the mind so much that it becomes too much trouble to think.
I think at the convention they tried covering their ears so they couldn't hear him.
When he loses again in November I'm going to be hard as a rock
Trump has always rambled incoherently. That isn't new. His base loves him because he represents selfishness and racism. That is who they are. They don't seem to care that he is a coward and a nutjob. Rich people love him because he will do just about anything for anyone who will publicly shine his shoes.
He's a nitwit and he always has been.
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