Trump is unravelling - even his supporters can't ignore it now
The president is leaning heavily on sarcasm to excuse a range of blunders, but US conservatives are unimpressedhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/28/trump-is-unravelling-even-his-supporters-cant-ignore-it-now
I don’t know what kind of disinfectant Donald Trump has been injecting, but the man does not appear to be well. The president’s lethal medical musing has turned him into (even more of) a global laughing stock and the widespread ridicule has clearly bruised his fragile ego. While Trump has never been a paradigm of calmness or competence, he has become increasingly irate and erratic in recent days. Now even his diehard supporters seem to be cooling towards him. Is the “very stable genius” starting to unravel?
Let’s start with the president’s weekend tweetstorm, which, even by Trumpian standards, was spectacularly unhinged. On Sunday, Trump lashed out at what he called a “phony story” in the New York Times that claimed he spends his days eating junk food and watching TV. “I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see [in the Times] that I am angrily eating a hamberger & Diet Coke in my bedroom,” he tweeted. “People with me are always stunned.” He then deleted the tweet and replaced it with one in which hamburger was spelled correctly. (This was clearly a challenge for him: he has previously misspelled hamburgers “hamberders”.) It turned out that the hambergers were just an appetiser. A rant about the “Noble” prize, which Trump seems to have confused with the Pulitzer prize, followed. This was subsequently deleted and replaced with a tweet stating it had all been an exercise in sarcasm. He is a master of sarcasm, as we all know.
While none of Trump’s aides seem able to shut down his Twitter account, they are trying to tone down his daily press briefings. Trump didn’t hold a briefing over the weekend as he normally does, while Monday’s event was cancelled and then reinstated. “We like to keep reporters on their toes,” the White House director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah, tweeted with a winking emoji. She then deleted the tweet – presumably to keep reporters on their toes. Monday’s briefing was notable for the briefness of Trump’s remarks; instead of treating it like a political rally, he ceded the floor to a number of CEOs.
Trump enjoyed a bump in his ratings last month when he stopped downplaying coronavirus and announced a 15-day plan to slow the virus’s spread. During his brief experiment with coherence, 55% of Americans said they approved of the way he was handling the crisis and CNN’s chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, told viewers Trump “is being the kind of leader that people need”. The tide now seems to have turned. Recent polls show that most Americans are unimpressed with Trump’s handling of the crisis. This includes conservatives: a Siena College poll released on Monday found that 56% of Republican voters in New York say they trust Andrew Cuomo, the state’s Democratic governor, to decide how to reopen the state over Trump. Even Fox News seems to have cooled towards Trumpism; the network has just cut ties with Diamond & Silk, a pair of rightwing social-media stars who have been two of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders, after they promoted conspiracy theories and disinformation.
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Pictures of him screwing around with Marla Maples were turning up in tabloids. That was how Mrs. Trump #1 found out they were getting divorced.
My opinion formed then and hasn't changed; he's nothing but a sleazy, crooked little con man.
Then there was his damn book ("The Art of the Deal"
that EVERYbody was reading, including my brother who is not much of a reader. "Oh, you have to read this, it's the best book, he's really smart and such an amazing businessman..."
Been a major reader all my life, but took a pass on that one. There was nothing the sleazy, crooked little con man had to say that I wanted to hear (read).
He's been unraveling for decades. He's always been a lying con man with the brain matter of a gnat and an all around POS.
and indirect fashioning in terms of verbiage.
that's fucking bollocks 
as usual, the more he talks the more trouble he gets himself into! Now because of his irresponsible comments, poison control centers are swamped with phone calls about if they should ingest disinfectants!
Billy Bush tells a story about one time when he was interviewing donnie. Donnie bragged about how his show The Apprentice was #1 in the ratings. Billy said the show isn't #1 & it hasn't been in about 5 years! When the camera was off he corned Bush & told him it doesn't matter if you're telling the truth, that people will believe it if he says it!!
I think he still uses this strategy & it's why he tells so many lies. He still thinks people will think it's the truth if it comes from donnie! After his recent press conferences I think there are many people who are unwilling to accept his lies as truth.
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. Coherence??? . . . yea, right...