Day 986: Trump’s mental state seems to be spiraling with no end in sight
The impeachment inquiry that the House of Representatives has opened into Donald Trump seems to have fractured his mind. More than ever — no small feat considering his past behavior — he’s openly lashing out and belligerent.
Trump continued to be irate — or, more likely, faux irate — at Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) saying that Trump’s call with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “in essence” a mob-style shakedown.
Betraying desperation, he’s openly cursing on Twitter. (And lying, Hillary Clinton got 232 electoral votes.)
He ripped into American cities while sitting next to Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, who looked like he wanted to be anywhere else.
He ousted reporters from the room by calling them corrupt and, seemingly the 1,000th time, “the enemy of the people.”
Later, at a joint press conference with Niinisto, Trump got furious and rambled incoherently in response to a basic question about what he wanted Zelensky to do about the Bidens. Trump has repeatedly said the call was “perfect,” but couldn’t answer that simple query. He went as far to demand the reporter, “ask [Niinisto] a question!” rather than answer a standard follow-up.
When that same reporter, Jeff Mason, did ask Niinisto a question, Trump jumped in to demand credit for trade deals that preceded his tenure by many years. He falsely claimed, “you never had wins for other presidents.”
Trump was visibly agitated and breathing quite heavily by the end of the press conference. He concluded in the same way he ended the earlier gaggle: insulting the free press. Missing the oxymoron, he also praised democracy, which cannot function without a free press.
Trump went home and tweeted a few propaganda videos for good measure, including one featuring the band Nickelback. Over the course of the day, he also squeezed in times to lie about a non-existent border wall and fought against a story that the White House had to do a cost estimate for one of Trump’s wild ideas on how to keep immigrants outs.
Trump’s pearl-clutching defense is eerily similar to those he made after a report that he wanted to detonate nuclear bombs in hurricanes.
It’s clear Trump’s temperament and mental state are going to continue to deteriorate even more as additional information comes out and as the House moves closer to an actual impeachment vote. Trump faces the specter of a trial in the Senate and that has him acting completely deranged, even in front of foreign nation’s head of state.
986 days in, 476 to go
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