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I saw clips of Trump's Wilkes-Barr, PA rally speech from yesterday. He sounded more unhinged than usual. I heard indications that his mental condition is deteriorating. I thought he was showing signs of dementia. I wanted to write about some of what he said but had trouble finding a transcript. Then I finally found the @REV website shown below which provides transcripts of political speeches.
Trump was supposed to talk about the economy at his rally. The media has reported that his advisors have been asking him to lay off unhinged personal attacks against Kamala Harris. One of the clips played on MSNBC was Trump saying that Kamala's father was a Marxist economics professor.
I look forward to debating her, by the way. She’ll be easier, she’ll be easier than him. Her policies are so bad. Her policy, remember her father was a Marxist economic professor. He was a Marxist, an avowed Marxist. This is not what we want in this country. And think of it. Does anyone here feel richer under Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe?
Aside from the fact that the majority of Trump supporters don't know what Marxism is, this begs us to compare her father with Trump's father. What was he?
This is how he began his remarks. Ask yourself if he's been taking this advice seriously.
Thank you very much. Thank you. I really give a very big hello to Pennsylvania. It’s great to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with thousands of proud, hard-working American patriots, which is what you are. Think of this. Who would believe this? 80 days from now, we are going to defeat a communist known as Kamala Harris, the most radical left person ever to run for office. This is not what this country needs. We’ve had enough of them. We’re going to win back the White House and we’re going to take back our country. Kamala Harris is a super-left liberal who ruined San Francisco, ruined California and delivered a badly broken economy, a badly broken border, which gave us a dangerous world of chaos, death and destruction. Just take a look at what’s happening today. We were a respected country. Now the whole world laughs at us. We’re a bunch of foolish people to have allowed this to happen, but we’re going to bring it back. We’re going to bring it back very fast.
With his usual self-agrandizement about how the crowds love him, Trump used his sing-songy voice to brag about how people are repeating his characterization of the United States as a country in decline.
They want me to speak all day. When I leave, I did one, two hours and 15 minutes, and I’m leaving, and they’re screaming, “No, sir, more! We want to hear more!” I said, “I can’t!” I said, “I can’t speak more! What the hell else am I going to say? Our country’s going to hell. That’s all I can say. We’re a nation in decline.” We were talking about that before. My phrases are copied so much, right? I use the term, oftentimes in closing, “We are a nation in decline. We are a failed nation.” And I think it’s a beautiful phrase, although I don’t like the topic very much, I don’t like what it represents, but there’s a certain beauty. All of a sudden, all of these candidates, including Republicans, are saying, “We are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation.” And I say, “What the hell do they have to copy me for?” Right?
Here's a bit of Trump's manic obsession with Barack Obama. It's at 17:28 if you want to read it in context. I assume that the "her" he is referencing in the last sentence is Kamala.
I had a good relationship with President Xi. When Covid came, that was the end of that relationship. But I had a very good relationship. But we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. Think of it, Bush, Barack, Hussein. Did you ever hear of Barack, Hussein, Obama? Have you heard of her?
He then went on to say:
There are those that think he is currently running the country. Does anybody think? I don’t know. I don’t know that that’s true. We know it’s not Biden. Every attack Kamala makes on us is a fabricated, it’s a lie. She’s a bad storyteller. She doesn’t know how to tell a story very well, but she gets caught, she got caught up in her own words. She’s not a very good wordsmith they say. I don’t know. We’re going to find out. We’re going to have a debate at some point. They gave me, the worst network to me is ABC, worse than NBC, worse than CBS, worse than CNN. The home of George Slopidopoulos, a nasty guy. I said, “George, I’ve had you up to here.” It’s true. He’s a nasty guy. The hatred. And yet when he interviews Biden, two weeks ago, he interviewed Biden, it was like the nicest interview. “What flavor ice cream do you like?” “George, I tend to vanilla very much.”
There's so much to unpack here. This paragraph can only be kindly be called a rambling word salad suggestive of a disordered mind. He went on for almost five minutes attacking the media.
Then, taking about Josh Shapiro, he said:
I don’t think he’s a good person. I don’t think he’s good. I don’t think he’s good. But they turned him down because he’s Jewish. Okay. That’s why they turned him down.
(26:32)
Now we can be politically correct and not say that. I could say, “Well, they turned him down for various reasons.” No, no. They turned him down because he’s Jewish, that’s why they turned him down. And I’ll tell you this, any Jewish person that votes for her or a Democrat has to go out and have their head examined because if you see what’s happening with Israel and Jewish people right now, there has never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust. If you happen to be Jewish in America, there’s never been anything like it. I’m seeing things, I can’t even believe it, and we want to bring about unity and peace and everything else. It looks like they’re going to have nothing but riots out there in Chicago. It’s really a sad thing. But they turned him down for that reason and they turned him down for a couple of other reasons too. But the primary reason was that he’s Jewish. And you don’t think I know what goes on in their campaign. I know it well. I know it very well. She’s a nation-wrecker who is more liberal than crazy Bernie Sanders. You know Crazy Bernie. He’s pretty bad, right? She is substantially more radicalized than Crazy Bernie. You cannot have her as your president. She ruined San Francisco.
Leaving aside the outrageous reference to the Holocaust, notice how Trump segues into an attack on Bernie Sanders and jumps to saying Harris ruined San Francisco. This is yet another instance of Trump's mind not being able to track normally. To say he speaks in word salad is to insult anyone who makes a good salad. He thinks he's a wordsmith. He's a word slaughterer.
I am at the half hour mark of the transcript of this 1:45 minute speech. I can't stand to go on but I will share one more to make my point.
“This woman is nuts.” Look, people say be nice. Have you heard her laugh? That is the laugh of a crazy person. That is the laugh of a crazy. It’s the laugh of a lunatic. Have you heard it? You know, they prohibited her. They prohibited her for laughing. I’ve been waiting for her to laugh, because as soon as she laughs, the election’s over. But we’re winning by a lot in Pennsylvania. I think the fracking got her. The fracking got her.
Trump can't do what those who dare to try tell him how he would do better to stick to the issues and stop with the personal insults and rambling word salad of disconnected comments. This is Trump putting his psychopatholgy and quote possibly his actual clinical dementia front and center for everyone with a discerning mind to see. Trump in his off the scales narcisism has never been self-critical. This was a character flaw. His mind, his psychology, wouldn't let him do this. Currently I think his actual brain, his neurology, won't let him do this.
Meanwhile...
Trump is holding a rally today in Howell, Michigan. I wonder if he was aware of the history of that town. Not only was it the site of a rally last month where white supremacists last month rallied and chanted “We love Hitler. We love Trump” but it's history goes way back to where it was a majr KKK enclave and the home to The John Birch Society.
This is from this CNN article:
Against this backdrop, Trump arrives in Michigan once again, this time appearing an hour outside Detroit in Livingston County. Surrounded mostly by counties that voted for Biden in 2020, Livingston broke strongly for Trump, giving him more than 60% of the vote four years ago. His margin, though, was 7 points smaller than in 2016 – one of many small turns against him that contributed to Biden flipping the state.
Ahead of the visit, Harris’ campaign criticized Trump for choosing to rally supporters in Howell – the largest city in Livingston County – a month after White supremacists marched through the suburban community’s downtown. Local media in Michigan published pictures and videos of the incident, during which about a dozen masked individuals voiced support for the former president. In one video, demonstrators chanted, “We love Hitler. We love Trump.” The Republican state representative from the city called the public display “very disgraceful,” the Livingston Daily reported.
Howell has a long, complicated history with race. According to a detailed timeline published by the paper, the grand dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan settled on a farm just outside the city in the 1960s, a catalyst for decades of strife in Howell. A cross burning on the lawn of a Black couple rocked the city in the 1980s, and it was the site of a KKK rally in the 1990s. More recently, students at the local high school drew outrage for racist social media messages after their all-White basketball team beat a mixed-race team.
There are some interesting comments on the Howell Facebook page here. A group promoting his rally doesn't see the irony of using Crime Scene Do Not Enter tape in the illustration.
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