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He did little to quell reports that he is melting down over Harris’s poll numbers.

Amidst reports that he has become ungluedby having to compete with Kamala Harris for the presidency, Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. And if the goal was to reassure people that (1) he is not at all freaked out by the vice president’s rising poll numbers and (2) he is the best candidate for the White House, he was not exactly successful!

Trump repeatedly insulted Harris’s intelligence, calling her “barely competent,” saying that she “can't do a news conference” because “she’s not smart enough,” and claiming that she’s “not as smart” as Joe Biden. (As a reminder, Trump thinks there were airports during the Revolutionary War and that it’s safe to inject bleach into the body; he’s also been described as an idiot by numerous people who worked for him.)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

When has he ever had a hinged press conference?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Y'all absolutely need to watch the linked fox news segment where the anchor tries to claim she knows Minnesota well, especially Milwaukee, and she sees that it has changed.

Meanwhile, Milwaukee is in Wisconsin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh that's good. Very very good lol. I wonder where she's from. Probably somewhere stupid. Like Louisiana.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They are all from New York and pretend to be from the heartland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck you Louisiana is the shit. Culture, food, parties.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

And all the US Media outlets gave him pretty much a free pass.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

Interestingly tRumps words are heard by my brain as the complete opposite of what he claims. Every time he opens his puckered geriatric mouth about kamala it just makes me wanna vote for her even more. Harris 2024

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does Donald Trump think Mexico is in South America?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Well it's south of America, isn't it?" - MAGA chuds, probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Evidence would suggest yes

[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He does this shit to get back into the news cycle and it works

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think he’s that smart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

His handlers are

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe, but he is that narcissistic.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Who we talking about? Oh yeah, some orange felon/rapist pervert who lies and shits his pants.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, it generates engagement which they can then show their advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Obviously.

All the major networks covered this live. None of them covered the Harris rally that happened right after. Some did fact checking afterward. That’s after most people stop watching.

The reporters often asked useless softball questions, like asking him to comment about his upcoming interview with Musk.

When there was a serious question, he simply didn’t answer. There was one about abortion and he said he would answer later. There was one about whether an an abortion drug should be banned. He gave a rambling response that seemed to be about something else.

Compare this to a typical Biden press conference where the reporters are rude and yell out questions and push back and tell Biden that he isn’t answering the question.

The press is afraid of Trump and complicit with his criminal behavior and complicit in the ignorance of the voters.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I am convinced that Trump doesn't know what asylum seekers are, he actually thinks they're escaped mental patients.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This makes way too much sense, don't know how I didn't see it before!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

At this point Dementia DonOLD has the mental capacity of a three year old.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Hence the reference to Hannibal Lector.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Escaped mental patients taking "black jobs"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Is there any chance - at all - he thinks he's making a witty pun? I've heard him try to make shittier jokes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Stable Genius should take a cognitive test "immediately, if not sooner".

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago

The more Trump spews lies, disparages Harris’s intelligence, insults Jews, and rambles about “insane asylums” in unhinged press conference, the more republicans get erect and cry in front of their messiah.

It's a cult.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

He has gotten more unhinged in the last three weeks.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I saw a video the other day explaining why he always brings up Hannibal Lecter seemingly out of the blue when discussing immigration, and this confirms the hypothesis: Trump does not understand that political asylum means something different than insane asylum

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I've been thinking about your comment for a day and I suspect that some political speeches are written assisted by AI. That would just mean that Trump and his team are lazy and didn't actually verify the semantics of the output.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

does not understand that political asylum means something different than insane asylum

What dummy doesn't understand that? Oh right, the weird, orange felon doesn't. The same one who can't spell coffee or pronounce Kamala.

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