Trump lurches further into delusion

[marmar]

Donald Trump lurches further into delusion on the world stage
In Davos and the White House briefing room, the president showed that he is faltering and dangerous

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published January 23, 2026 9:00AM (EST)


(Salon) It began Tuesday with a surprise announcement from the presidential press secretary. Donald Trump was returning to the Brady Briefing Room. Sound the klaxons.

After an hour of the president’s listless word-salad monologue, it occurred to me, as he unraveled his greatest hits, that he wants “to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening,” as Alice Roosevelt said of her father Teddy, our 26th president.

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Mary Trump, the president’s niece, says that every time her uncle glorifies himself he is speaking to an audience of one. “He’s still trying to prove himself to my grandfather. And he’s been dead 30 years,” she said recently, before adding that if she could say one thing to her uncle, it would be “I’m sorry nobody ever loved you.”

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Perhaps it was because of this delay that when the president got to Switzerland, we saw “Mean Don” hit the stage. We haven’t seen that version of him since his Christmas speech. Trump insulted our allies, said he didn’t like NATO, cheered on our enemies, told our closest friends they’re lucky they aren’t speaking German — or perhaps a little bit of Japanese — and metaphorically stuck his tongue out at everyone. Some who witnessed it live called it juvenile. And then he talked about Greenland, teasing his remarks as if he were standing on a junior high school stage introducing an eighth-grade production of “We’re No Angels.” He looked incredibly small as he proceeded to threaten Europe.

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The president is obviously faltering. As a source close to the White House explained to me, “I may not be a mechanic, but I know when there’s something wrong with the car.” Trump is the car. I don’t know if he’s out of gas, has a busted radiator, flat tires or is suffering from dementia. I can only report that this is not the Trump I covered in the first administration. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/23/donald-trump-lurches-further-into-delusion-on-the-world-stage/

[sop]

1. "Out of gas"? Trump blew a gasket and threw a rod, the clown car needs to be crushed at the junk yard.

[dem4decades]

2. Not a mechanic either but i know when the car's computer shits the bed.

[Hugin]

3. The idiot lights are all on and there's a metal-on-metal sound under the hood.

But, the Republicans insist on keeping it floored. It does explain the smell

[samsingh]

4. along with the people that support him