The gap between Trump's world and reality is widening. It's disturbing to watch

[Binkie The Clown]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gap-between-trumps-world-reality-073008207.html

From The Guardian via Yahoo

Given how busy most Americans are these days – home-schooling their kids, dealing with unemployment, waiting on line at food banks, protesting systemic racism, worrying about our economy and our educational system – few of us have the time, the energy or inclination to wonder what it’s like to be Donald Trump, to imagine how his mind works, what he really thinks and believes. But over the past few weeks, the increasingly strange, intentionally provocative, inappropriate and frankly delusional tweets and pronouncements issuing from the Oval Office have once again caused us to reflect on the president’s inner life. We’ve grown accustomed to his shortcomings, the regular failures of decency, common sense, and good taste. Yet the gap between what the president is saying – and the reality we observe around us – appears to be widening.

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Is it possible that a president who has spent four years lying to the American people now assumes that everyone is lying? Or can he simply no longer distinguish between fact and fiction, between conspiracy theories spread by fringe “news” outlets such as the One America News Network and observable reality? What sane human being could imagine that America wanted to hear that George Floyd was smiling down from heaven at the day’s modestly improved job reports?

Lately, I’ve been thinking of the 8,000 word “long telegram” that George Kennan, then the American chargé d’affaires in Moscow and later an architect of the Cold War, sent to the State Department in 1946 – a document in which Kennan described the methods of an authoritarian dictatorship, “so strange to our form of thought”. Under Stalin, wrote Kennan, “The very disrespect of Russians for objective truth – indeed, their disbelief in its existence – leads them to view all stated facts as instruments for furtherance of one ulterior purpose or another.”
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More at the link above

[riversedge]

1. #TrumpisNotWell--mentally and physically

[Binkie The Clown]

2. And he's in good company.

I read this morning that a lot of RNC big wigs are claiming Trump is going to win reelection in a landslide.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thinking-landslide-beyond-d-c-083042948.html

[UpInArms]

3. They were going for a headline news story for the dotard

Prolly a payoff in there somewhere to the writer of such tripe ...

His “aides” needed something to keep him from firing all of them

[Hortensis]

4. It was expected that the disorder the American Psychiatric Association

so despicably refused to discuss would almost certainly become worse with the intense stresses of the presidency, perhaps into full-blown sociopathy if it wasn't before.

We probably are seeing that, ambulatory warning flare that he already was when campaigning. Hard to imagine that the paranoia that was probably always some element of his disorder wouldn't be a big one now. Everything would feed it these days, including that crowd of examples from abnormal psychology texts who are always around, scheming against each other and whispering in his ears.