The president is a cognitively impaired idiot
It’s as if the president left his fly open or toilet paper stuck to his shoe or misbuttoned his shirt and not even his friends will tell him. Not water-carrying MAGA “reporters” and certainly not legitimate ones. This deteriorating man-child (with Stephen Miller — “if you pulled off his face would you get a lizard?” — whispering in his hear) is sabotaging the republic, the world’s economy, and democracy itself. Yet, interviewers treat him as if he’s not Grampa Simpson spinning stories with no point.
Among the looniest exchanges from Donald Trump’s “Meet the Press” interview on Sunday is Kristen Welker’s asking him how long it will take before Americans feel the promised relief from his tariffs:
PRES. DONALD TRUMP:
I can’t tell you that. I can tell you that we’re making a lot of money. We’re doing great. Again, we were losing more than $5 billion a day. $5 billion a day. You don’t talk about that. And right now, we’re going to be at a point very soon where we’re making money every day. Look — we were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.
WTF? It might have been Abe Simpson rhapsodizing about how he once tied an onion to his belt.
Welker just let it go without comment. Financial writer, James Surowiecki, would not:
It’s impossible to overstate how stupid Trump’s view of trade is. He literally thinks that if you, American consumer, buy a TV that’s made in China, you’ve “lost money,” even though you got a TV in exchange for your dollars (at a very fair price).
Trump later made the mistake of smearing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) as a “low IQ person.” She responded on FKA Twitter:
For you to be in charge of the WHOLE country, you sure do have my name in your mouth a lot. Every time you say my name, you’re reminding the world that you’re terrified of smart, bold Black women telling the truth and holding you accountable. So keep talking…
Crockett wasn’t done. She counterattacked with a video montage of people labeling Trump stupid.
Michael Cohen, the disbarred former Trump fixer, responded later to Trump’s Sunday evening Truth Social directive to “the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security” to renovate and reactivate Alcatraz. Trump left out the “hereby.”
“There’s pretty much zero chance he’s heard of Supermax prisons,” Cohen posted. TPM’s Josh Marshall added that Trump seems to inhabit “a world of 1950s movies.”
The man came out of a time capsule into a cloistered life of privilege from which he’s never emerged. He thinks pre-teens and teenage girls play with dolls and should sacrifice for his trade wars.
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