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malaise

(293,424 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 07:18 AM Yesterday

Donvict's rambling on the mental institution in New York

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/20/2364447/-What-the-hell-is-Trump-talking-about

“I grew up in Queens, we had a place called Creedmoor [Psychiatric Center],” Trump said, “Creedmoor. Did anybody know that? Creedmoor. It was a big … I said, ‘Mom, why are those bars on the building?’ I used to play little league baseball there at a place called Cunningham Park. I was quite the baseball player, you wouldn't believe. But I said to my mother, ‘Mom,’ she would be there, always there for me. She said, ‘Son, you could be a professional baseball player.’ I said, ‘Thanks, mom.’ I said, ‘Why are those bars on the windows?’”

New Yorkers responded thus
“…the park is more than three miles from where the mental asylum is located. Many suggested that Trump, perhaps, meant the Alley Pond Park, which is just next to Creedmoor.”

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What Mom really told Donvict - son for the sake of humanity they should lock you up in Creedmoor
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Donvict's rambling on the mental institution in New York (Original Post) malaise Yesterday OP
She looked at me with tears in her eyes...blah, blah, blah... MiHale Yesterday #1
The man is stark raving mad malaise Yesterday #2
He is quite crazy. Botany Yesterday #3
Precisely malaise Yesterday #4
Fucking Nutz Botany Yesterday #5

MiHale

(12,688 posts)
1. She looked at me with tears in her eyes...blah, blah, blah...
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 07:28 AM
Yesterday

No grip on reality…misses mom though…idea!…go visit her. Bye!

Botany

(76,536 posts)
3. He is quite crazy.
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 07:36 AM
Yesterday

But I said to my mother, ‘Mom,’ she would be there, always there for me.*. She said, ‘Son, you could be a professional baseball player.’**I said, ‘Thanks, mom.’

* No she wasn’t she would leave the house when he came home from military school where he was
so he didn’t have to go into a juvenile detention facility after putting a smaller child in a hospital and he tried to throw a teacher out a window because he scared her so much.

** No he was not athletic @ all and there are no records of him being a good baseball player
or even being on a team.

Botany

(76,536 posts)
5. Fucking Nutz
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 09:27 AM
Yesterday

“I was always the best athlete. Something that nobody knew about me. … I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young*. … But I also knew that it was very limited, because in those days you couldn't even make a lot of money playing baseball. … Everybody wanted me to be a baseball player. But I was good in other sports too. I was good in wrestling, I was very good at football. I was always the best at sports.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a56671/trump-athlete-cult/

* Mickey Mantle was playing for the New York Yankees @ that time.


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