Amidst reports that he has become unglued by 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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As has become a recurring feature of his public remarks, the ex-president also spent time insulting Jewish Americans, saying if they vote for Harris, “they should have their head examined.” He baselessly claimed that Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, has been “very bad to Jewish people.” And, after claiming yesterday that Harris’s decision to pick Tim Walz as her running mate over Josh Shapiro was a snub to Jewish people—and that Shapiro would have been a stronger running mate—he said Shapiro is “a terrible guy and he’s not very popular with anybody.”
Also, at one point, he reiterated that he thinks migrants who are seeking asylum are coming to the US via “insane asylums.”
Naturally, the main theme of Trump’s remarks was that they were all completely ridiculous lies. Said lies included:
pervocracy on August 9th, 2024 at 00:36 UTC »
It's amazing how often his rhetoric about immigration gets "adultified" into something about "well, you know, it can be a strain on the economy" when what he actually said is that countries are sending all the inmates from their prisons and all the patients from their mental hospitals over the border.
It's not kind of true. It's not an opinion. It's ridiculous.
ScoutsterReturns on August 9th, 2024 at 00:24 UTC »
This man does not have a single redeeming quality. It's surreal how he still has so many supporters.
ianjm on August 9th, 2024 at 00:22 UTC »
He's thinking about Hannibal Lecter again isn't he