During a glitch-filled (standard) Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk this week, Trump delivered a barrage of boring incoherent statements and other assorted nonsense.
Trump may need to get some Invisalign braces to straighten his teeth. Or see a periodontist. Or maybe cut down on his Adderall. Have you heard Trump speak? He’s slowly beginning to sound like Sylvester the Cat.
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Jokes aside (not really…), the summary of the shenanigans of this most recent election cycle is that a convicted felon sat down with a really crappy engineer for a rambling, boring, technical glitch-ridden conversation about the state of the US, the election, and various other bullshit. It all seemed to get out of hand for the 78-year-old former game show host who was sleepwalking his way to a second term until Kamala Harris secured the Democratic nomination (which she likely will), which would stoke the ire of a guy not known for being particularly respectful of women and minorities. If his opponent manages to fulfill both of those things and wins, there will surely be a pulse of warm sausage gravy coursing through his arteries.
With no love for nuance, subtlety or (let’s be honest) facts, Trump has made the leap from blowing racist dog whistles at his supporters (during a debate with a heavily caffeinated Joe Biden, he said, “Immigrants of color are taking black jobs and taking Hispanic jobs. You haven’t seen it yet, but it’s the worst thing in history that’s coming”) to actual, overt racism.
He goes back to the old Goebbels playbook and says that immigrants coming to America bring “diseases” and crime, that if the Harris/Waltz candidate wins in November the numbers will reach tens of millions, and that they’re coming from prisons and mental hospitals. (All of this is nonsense.)
This was one of several rare words he spoke about Kamala Harris’ racial identity, speaking to an audience of black journalists.
I only found out she was black a few years ago when she happened to be black and now she wants to be known as black, so I don’t know if she’s Indian or black.
Donnie, great at reading the mood. Racist chef kissing fingers. Sublime. He almost called her a “nigger” just a microsecond ago, seriously.
But there’s a lot else being said recently that’s given me a lot to think about. For example, he’s (currently) the oldest major-party presidential candidate in American history. His creepy, weird running mate is creating so much buzz among voters that the Republican nominee is in danger of losing Ohio. It’s an exciting time to be alive.
Musk’s over-hyped, sycophantic interview started 41 minutes late, the latest in a string of lateness and delays from Trump. His private jet has had mechanical issues (he’s basically been flying around in an aviation version of an old ranch bomb) and he’s been flying in a plane once owned by Jeffrey Epstein lately. This is not the same plane Epstein dubbed the “Lolita Express,” which has since been destroyed. But, as we all know, it’s not a pretty look (and come to think of it, sending congratulations to Ghislaine Maxwell was no different).
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He goes back to the old Goebbels playbook and says that immigrants coming to America bring “diseases” and crime, that if the Harris/Waltz candidate wins in November the numbers will reach tens of millions, and that they’re coming from prisons and mental hospitals. (All of this is nonsense.)
On the subject of psychiatric hospitals, there is an above average chance that he read the word “asylum seeker” and confused it with “psychiatric hospital.” It is also likely that he has heard of immigrant visas and has concluded that all illegal immigrants are given visa cards. For some reason.
And he keeps praising Hannibal Lecter. He calls Lecter “the late Hannibal Lecter” many times. Of course, I acknowledge greatness in a pejorative sense. There is no greater psychopathic cannibalistic murderer. But the deceased? Is he dead? This character is fictional, so it’s unclear. This might also lead to the “asylum” story: immigrants seeking asylum, asylum has multiple meanings, Lecter was in a psychiatric hospital in Silence of the Lambs, so asylum is bad. But somehow, is Lecter a good person? Either he plays 4D chess or his brain is like porridge.
This is a harsh statement considering the nutrition you get from porridge.
It all seemed to get out of hand for the 78-year-old former game show host, who was sleepwalking toward a second term until Kamala Harris secured the Democratic nomination.
Returning to his meeting with Musk, the conversation took a strange turn, and while most thoughtful listeners would eventually realize there wasn’t enough of a clue to drive home the point, Trump did what he thought was an attempt to ensnare VP Harris. He called her a terrible leader. “She’s terrible, terrible… She’s a free rider… We need smart people, people who can lead. She doesn’t have that ability. Can you imagine her with President Xi Jinping?”
So that’s typical Trump-style character attack, but among Trump’s many woes is the fact that he is a lifelong sexually active man, hopeless when it comes to women, and waiting for an opportunity to become obsessed with Harris’s looks.
“I saw her picture in Time magazine today. She looks like the most beautiful actress of all time,” he said.
“She looked a lot like our great First Lady, Melania Trump,” Trump’s third wife, who has kept a low profile in recent times.
“She looked nothing like Camila,” he added, presumably intentionally casting a bashing light on Harris’ name. “Obviously, she’s a beautiful woman, and let’s just leave it at that.”
The ever-thinking Musk pushed things forward: “Yeah, well…yeah, well, you know.”
In summary, Harris is a bad leader, dangerous and bad for the country, but I’ve seen pictures of her and she is attractive. I like attractive women and my wife is attractive. MAGA!
This was another glorious moment in American politics, which has seemed to have been shrinking for the past decade, while many of us who sat on the sidelines were baffled that a saggy, hot bag of farts had made it this far and been able to dominate the debate for so long.
Thankfully, there seems to be hope for the future.