The Day Donald Trump Undeniably Lost It

Yet he still has his job

Fox News reporter Danamarie McNichol asking about the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida Everglades while attending a press briefing held by Donald Trump, who had just visited the facility: “Mr. President, is there an expected time frame that detainees will spend here? Days, weeks, months?”

Trump: “When you say, uh, what was the first part of your question?”

Reporter: “Is there a specific time frame you expect the detainees to spend here—days, weeks, months?”

Trump: “In Florida?”

Reporter: “Yes, here at Alligator Alcatraz.”

Trump answered: “In Florida? I'm going to spend a lot. Look, this is my home state. I love it, I love your government, I love all the people around. These are all friends of mine. They know very well. I mean, I'm not surprised that they do so well. They're great people. Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time. I feel very comfortable in the state. I'll spend a lot of time here. I want to, you know, for four years, I've got to be in Washington, and I'm okay with it because I love the White House. I even fixed up the little Oval Office, I make it—it's like a diamond, it's beautiful. It's so beautiful. It wasn't maintained properly, I will tell you that. But even when it wasn't, it was still the Oval Office, so it meant a lot. But I'll spend as much time as I can here. You know, my vacation is generally here, because it's convenient. I live in Palm Beach. It's my home. And I have a very nice little place, nice little cottage to stay at, right? But we have a lot of fun, and I'm a big contributor to Florida, you know, pay a lot of tax, and a lot of people moved from New York, and I don't know what New York is going to do. A lot of people moved to Florida from New York, and it was for a lot of reasons, but one of them was taxes. The taxes are so high in New York, they're leaving. I don't know what New York's going to do about that, because some of the biggest, wealthiest people, and some of the people that pay the most taxes of any people anywhere in the world, for that matter, they're moving to Florida and other places. So we're going to have to help some of these states out, I think. But thank you very much. I'll be here as much as I can. Very nice question.”

I don’t even know where to go from here. I was so stunned when I first saw this, and then re-read the transcript, that I was just gobsmacked at the complete and utter cognitive meltdown happening in front of the world’s eyes.

This is a meltdown of epic proportions. Far beyond Joe Biden’s gaffe at a press conference a week after his (yes, we all know) disastrous debate performance against the guy who gave us a word salad that should even have his most diehard yes-men and supporters squirming in their seats. The Biden press conference I’m referring to is the one where he gaffed, after a question was posed to him that involved both Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. He responded by referring to “Vice President Trump.” I watched that happen live, and while I bit my bottom lip very hard after he said it, the rest of his response at least made sense. He then spent the better part of an hour eloquently and intelligently discussing with and answering questions from reporters on a range of geopolitical issues, including the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. This, of course, was the presser that ultimately cost him, and ultimately Kamala Harris, the presidential election. Instead, we have the guy whose entire existence is comprised of word salad and hate.

We can all surmise by Trump’s insane ramblings as quoted above that the reason is clear as to why Republicans and the rest of MAGAworld are trying to destroy Joe Biden’s legacy, up to and including holding hearings on his mental state while he was president. It’s a clear and obvious deflection from Trump’s own declining cognitive failures. If Trump said what he said yesterday in public, what is he saying and doing in private when only his handlers are watching? Who is actually running the country?

My daily posts have evolved from documenting how a presidential administration functions. Instead, I’m documenting the fall of American Democracy, not at the hands of a brilliant demagogue, but at the hands of an aging, decrepit, morally bankrupt charlatan propped up by yes men, a masterful propaganda network, and the entire Republican party. I at least try to include the victories, no matter how small, that are achieved mostly through the courts against his ignominious dictates that ignore principled procedure and the U.S. Constitution in general. Of course, just when we think he can’t go any lower, he finds a way every single time. Since he’s returned to office, each day has been a torturous experience involving a policy, dictate, or mandate that takes things away from the people in this country who least deserve it. These policies, or whatever they are, do nothing to advance us as a nation. It’s as if everyone in this administration goes out of their way to be cruel just for cruelty’s sake.

He’s not a president. He doesn’t act like one. He “presides” over nothing. I haven’t referred to him using that title in my posts for months now, because he doesn’t deserve it. The best we can do to fight against this ghastly lot of morally depraved ghouls is to keep doing what we’re doing. Fight back through the courts, through our legislators, and peaceful protest. No matter how dark things seem, victories are still being achieved. Be angry, but channel that anger into energy that finds a way to produce positive results.

On a final note, here we are 24 hours later, and the news cycles have all but moved on.

And on a final final note, I am in the middle of producing an event happening July 3 that helps raise funds for a non-profit I run that provides an acting class to a level 4 prison here in Los Angeles County. I will be back at my regular posts on Friday, July 4. Thanks for understanding!