Trump Is Not Stable -- and That Should Be a Huge News Story

[dajoki]

Trump Is Not Stable — and That Should Be a Huge News Story
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/83754

If over the weekend you saw a rambling madman give a frighteningly incoherent, sweaty, two-hour shoutfest of a speech at a right-wing summit, then you viewed a president coming unglued on national television in a way that has probably never been seen before in United States history. And that is extraordinary cause for alarm.

But if, instead, you saw nothing more than a “fiery” Donald Trump give a “zigzagging,” “wide-ranging,” “campaign-like” address where the Republican really “let loose,” then you likely work for the D.C. press, which once again swung and missed when it came to detailing the escalating threat that Trump represents to the country.

Specifically, newsrooms today nearly uniformly refuse to address the mounting, obvious signs that Trump is a deeply unstable man, as the CPAC meltdown so obviously demonstrated. Most reporters simply do not want to mention it. “In most ways, it was just another campaign rally for the president, in flavor, content, and punchlines,” the Daily Beast reported, summing up Trump’s CPAC calamity. In other words: Nothing to see here, folks.

That was typical of CPAC coverage. “Trump derides Mueller probe, mocks Democrats and his former attorney general,” the Washington Post headline announced. The accompanying article didn’t include even the slightest hint that Trump’s speech was a flashing neon-red sign of a man teetering on the edge. That is a bionic-level attempt to normalize Trump and his CPAC disaster, where he referred to 2020 Democratic candidates as “maniacs,” suggested they “hate their country,” and accused the Democratic Party of supporting “extreme late-term abortion.”

That wasn’t just some “long-winded” or “rambling” speech. That was pure insanity, and the fact that a sitting president unleashed such a bizarre performance, punctuated by so many incomprehensible nonsequiturs, means his stability and capacity ought to be questioned—and it ought to be a pressing news story.

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[Glorfindel]

1. But he's a rePuke. It's OK to be unhinged and incoherent if you're a rePuke

In fact, it's expected and applauded. Our "liberal media" once again covers itself in glory.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. He should be taken away

[calimary]

35. In a straitjacket for sure. He needs a padded cell.

[azureblue]

49. The GOP recognizes this as normal

which says reams about them. IOW, they are so far gone they can't tell normal from crazy at all.

[wishstar]

2. The raging malignant narcissist craved the attention and applause from his scyophantic crowd

The textbook mental case needed his "fix" of support after the agony of being gone Wednesday while Michael Cohen was center of media attention and then after being called a failure over the NK summit. The CPAC performance was just another in a long line of his desperate attempts to get attention and unleash his frustration over his bad week in media employing his usual routine of blame, projection, bragging, shock and awe and playing the victim.

[tblue37]

5. I wish video of the parade of people leaving his speech were available and could get widely

disseminated. That would drive him even battier.

[Pepsidog]

10. You are correct. It was a classic adderall fueled display of crazy.

[dem in texas]

26. Yes, I agree

I have long thought that the morning rants on Twitter are fueled by some sort of drug.

[kentuck]

3. It's gotten much worse...

So many people refuse to see it.

[G_j]

4. Yep

[dlk]

6. The President of the United States is Insane-This Should Be a Code Red Everywhere!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

44. it should dominate broadcast and cable tv

This is a crisis warranting the disruption even of pharmaceutical commercials on broadcast and cable television. Yet, it is normalized.

[Pepsidog]

7. Normalcy bias has set in. Unstable, unhinged, maniacal are all the new normal for many. Blame Fox.

Without Fox, Trump would be gone in a minute.

[OMGWTF]

25. Nixon would have gotten away with his crimes if FUX News was around back then.

[Pepsidog]

42. Indeed he would. We are living during a surreal period in history that will be seen by future

as the Wild West days of the internet where anything goes.

[spanone]

9. K&R...

[littlemissmartypants]

11. He's a bad actor, in every sense of the word. nt

[maxsolomon]

34. He fancies himself an insult comedian. Like Don Rickles.

His crowds find it hilarious, but it's never funny. It's cruel.

He hurts who they want to hurt.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

58. Don Rickles was actually funny and a very decent, caring man.

Decades ago, my parents and a groups of their friends saw Rickles in a dinner theater in Las Vegas. In his stand-up, he had chosen a particular couple in the audience to poke gentle fun at. When it was all over, the couple and their friends were informed that their dinner tab had been picked up by Mr. Rickles and, if they would be so kind, as to come back stage to meet him. When they arrived, Rickles greeted them warmly and apologized profusely for any embarrassment he may have caused them. They talked for about 15 minutes and parted laughing. Later, my mother said that Don Rickles was one of the sweetest, dearest men she had ever met.

[maxsolomon]

62. That's great, but it's not my point.

Trump's "standup" is part of his appeal. Because he's not a brilliant comedian like Rickles, but is in fact a malignant narcissistic sociopath, it comes out as cruelty.

Which his marks eat up because he validates their resentments and grievances.

[dawnie51]

12. Heard John Nichols yesterday....

on Sirius XM. He said what struck him most wasn't that Dump went there to be stroked, because he was uber needy after his horrible, terrible, not so good week. What struck Nichols most was that Dump couldn't stop; he couldn't wrap it up; it was too good, and he kept working and working, for over two hours, when he could barely put a string of words together and people were leaving in large numbers. Dump needed that stroking, needed those idiots cheering his idiocy; had the rubes stayed, he might still be there, croaking out bullshit and using the podium to hold himself up. One sick dude.

[True Blue American]

31. We once had

A Preacher like that, ramble on and on,raved at times. Mostlyl about Democrts
You would think he was finished, next thing you know he would fip over to another book of the Bible , start all over again.

Beginnings of dementia.

[PeeJ52]

13. I think he spoke for over two hours on purpose so people wouldn't listen to it...

I know I can't bring myself to sit for two hours knowing I'd have to listen to the idiot for that long. I can't stand reading his tweets.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

32. If you're suggesting he planned ahead of time to speak for two hours with the express intent

that people wouldn't listen, I'll disagree. That's a kind of subtlety of thinking and planning he's simply not capable of.

Plus, it's hard to imagine anyone speaking for a long time just so people wouldn't listen. Not unless it was part of some bizarre and complex plot that allowed something else to happen. I dunno. Maybe flying saucers to land in front of the White House.

[PeeJ52]

39. Maybe...lol

He is a genius after all... just ask him.

[Snake Plissken]

14. I brought this up yesterday and people were tell me it's all over the news

But I haven't seen it. And yes it is a huge deal and should be the lead story on every news program, we have a president who is mentally unfit for office and it's being ignored by Congress and his Cabinet.

[NurseJackie]

15. How could anyone sit through it all? The GOP is a cult!

[bdamomma]

56. It is a cult.

I only wish he would have a health issue right there on the stage after his BS rants.

[Botany]

16. I didn't know that Ohio has a female democratic senator either.

The 7 Most Bewildering Moments From Trump’s CPAC Speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/president-trump-repeatedly-veered-off-script-cpac/584014/

He lampooned Democratic proposals for a Green New Deal:

No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, that is the end of your electric. Let’s hurry up. “Darling, darling, is the wind blowing today? I would like to watch television, darling” ... Their plan would remove every gas-powered car from American roads. Oh, that’s not so bad. They want you to have one car instead of two. And it should be electric. Okay. So tell people, no more cars, no more cars ... It would end air travel. But you’ll get on a train, don’t worry about it. You just have to cross off about 95 percent of the world. And it would force the destruction or renovation of virtually every existing structure in the United States. New York City would have to rip down buildings and rebuild ’em again. I don’t think so. This is the craziest plan. And yet I see senators that are there for 20 years, white hair. See, I don’t have white hair. I don’t have white hair. I see these white hairs, longtime senators, standing behind this young woman, and she’s ranting and raving like a lunatic, and these senators: “Yes, I agree with this. Yes I agree.” The crazy female senator from the state of Ohio. [Both of Ohio’s senators are men; it appears he was instead referring to Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.] The state of Hawaii. She’s like a crazy person. What she said about men is so bad.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

33. Of course, even supposedly rational people, including ones here on DU

are completely behind the idea that we will all be driving electric cars very shortly, or that everyone will give up owning a car because of Lyft and Uber. Both of those ideas are totally nuts.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. "totally nuts"?

Both ideas are totally nuts only when taken to the ridiculous extremes proposed. Not everyone needs to give up owning a car and neither will we all be driving electric cars. Contrary to RWNJ, the universe is not a zero-sum game.

If everyone used an EV where appropriate, pollution and global warming would be much more tractable problems. A side benefit would be lower costs for petroleum in those situations where we have no suitable substitute.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

45. And both ideas are being taken to the ridiculous extremes.

Alas.

I can't afford an EV just for in-town driving, especially as the cheapest one is double what I've ever paid for a car. I take enough very long car trips that my gas car, and the ability to refill the tank in five minutes compared to many hours of re-charging, is what I, and lots of others need.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

46. both ideas are PUSHED to extremes

SUVs were pushed because of the profit margin, and because of an irrational tax deduction created by a GOPer Congress when SUVs were a new thing. It promoted gas guzzling at the time. Corporate fleets went from econo-cars to SUVs in just a few years. Marketing did the rest; check most parking lots and they are a sea of SUVs and pickups.

EVs could have been produced at competitive prices for decades. Instead, manufacturers kept up a steady noise of astroturfing against them, citing the lack of charging stations and the lack of batteries giving the equivalent range of a tank of gasoline. Both are specious arguments. The inability to completely displace petroleum fueled vehicles is a silly reason to not produce any EV. It's as goofy as claiming that no hamburgers should be produced because a hamburger is not a complete diet.

Typical commute distances in major metro areas range from 4.7 miles (Stockton, CA) to 12.8 miles (Atlanta, GA). That's a whole lot of people moving 5 or 6 days a week, within the range of even fairly crude, garage built EVs from the 1970s. Why haven't automobile manufacturers been catering to such a market for decades? Simple -- there are fewer revenue streams associated with an EV.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

47. One solution is for better public transportation and for more people to use it.

My first seven years in the DC area I had no car and got along quite well. This was before the Metro opened. The only reason I finally got a car was I decided to go back to school part time, and it just wasn't going to be practical to get to school in the morning, get home, then get to the airport where I worked an afternoon shift.

If I ever leave my current city, I expect it will be to someplace with much better public transportation, in which case I'd give up owning a car and rent one if the need arose.

[watoos]

17. The purpose of his speech worked.

We are talking about it here on DU. Better to have ignored it.

[MyOwnPeace]

20. Sorry to disagree..........

it should be just the opposite - show the craziness. Just look at this short part from that mess:

" No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, that is the end of your electric. Let’s hurry up. “Darling, darling, is the wind blowing today? I would like to watch television, darling” ... Their plan would remove every gas-powered car from American roads. Oh, that’s not so bad. They want you to have one car instead of two. And it should be electric. Okay. So tell people, no more cars, no more cars ... It would end air travel. But you’ll get on a train, don’t worry about it. You just have to cross off about 95 percent of the world. And it would force the destruction or renovation of virtually every existing structure in the United States. New York City would have to rip down buildings and rebuild ’em again. I don’t think so. This is the craziest plan. And yet I see senators that are there for 20 years, white hair. See, I don’t have white hair. I don’t have white hair. I see these white hairs, longtime senators, standing behind this young woman, and she’s ranting and raving like a lunatic, and these senators: “Yes, I agree with this. Yes I agree.” The crazy female senator from the state of Ohio. [Both of Ohio’s senators are men; it appears he was instead referring to Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.] The state of Hawaii. She’s like a crazy person. What she said about men is so bad."

Really....... try to read that and tell me that this is not a crazy man. You know it and most of us here at DU know it. It needs to be seen and discussed everywhere. The MSM needs to break down the entire rant and ask him about it - and NOT accept BS dodges and mis-directions.

Call him on it - let those who have not figured it out (or refuse to see and believe) see what a crazy fool he is.

We cannot put it in a corner and pretend it is not there.

It IS there - and we must let all see it - and continue the fight to do something about it.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. CPAC is enabling this idiot, what else can one say? But that's okay...by allowing rump to...

rant and rave, he's just made a total fool of himself in the eyes of most Americans. What's new?

It's not often that rump has a ready audience, hence that's why he goes on and on forever at CPAC.

If one notices (and most of us on DU have), he's been going to way out of the way places to dig up loyal audiences and/or pay the audience members to sit in his rallies and participate. It is not hard work, all one has to do is act like a 5 year old child and viola, a paycheck! If I was doing this, I'd make sure I'd take cash by the way.

Also, we've all seen these people who are in their own little world out wherever we go, restaurants, bars, etc., totally absorbed on their phones, texting, etc. They could get hit by a car and killed because they are not paying attention to their surroundings (over 4000 of them are annually). This is rump, so self absorbed, so self centered, ME ME ME sickening ME. Like a spoiled brat, with a tarnished golden spoon in his mouth, nothing else.

Ignore him. Let's move on. The repugs are not here to help us either so ignore them. Let's repeat Nov. 2018 and keep fighting them in the meantime in the courts, in the arena of public opinion, in the House of representatives, everywhere where we can.

And what's funny about this whole thing, rump is his own worse enemy! A savory way to taste the fruits of defeat, eh, in Nov., 2020?

[Delmette2.0]

19. MSNBC the 11th Hour.

Reported that Dipshit told 102 lies during that speech. I've been watching to see if anyone else reports the same.

[MyOwnPeace]

21. Eugene Robinson......

in the Washington Post:

“I’m going to regret this speech,” he said (speaking of IQ45). The rest of us certainly do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-unhinged-cpac-speech-should-concern-us-all/2019/03/04/96395a9e-3ecc-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?utm_term=.87d83ec13b83

[Delmette2.0]

22. Cool, Thank you. nt

[Grasswire2]

38. video here

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Link to tweet

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Discussion of the speech on Morning Joe

[Delmette2.0]

41. Thank you

[Mosby]

23. KnR

[Harker]

24. He feels safe and warm so long as people

are chanting and shouting at his speeches.

The real world frightens and confuses him.

[LibDemAlways]

27. Everyone knows there is private

behind closed doors speech where Presidents, Nixon and LBJ come to mind, may freely unleash streams of profanity. Then, there is before the cameras speech, where it has long been expected that decorum will prevail.

Trump is simply a crude moron who doesn't understand the difference and shows zero respect for the office he is privileged to hold.

What's truly frightening is that the media has managed to normalize his behavior rather than shining a spotlight on just what an unhinged aberration it is.

[dajoki]

36. I hope it is an aberration n/t

[nevergiveup]

28. Nothing worse than a

narcissistic sociopath with verbal diarrhea. The problem is that it is already built in and has become normalized. By tomorrow it will all be forgotten and we will be moving on to the next outrage and with each progression fewer and fewer folks will be giving it any attention. We live in scary times.

[dajoki]

37. That is the problem...

too many scandals that a lot of people can't keep up, everyday it's something new. We must stay focused on the problem which is rump, but also his entire party. And the media must do their jobs better.

[NBachers]

29. Compare this to the Insane Dean Scream.

[BarbD]

40. Had forgotten about that non-event

that was blown way out of proportion by the press.

[bdamomma]

57. The Dean scream

wasn't anything compared to this POS. I watched Lawrence last night and he couldn't even repeat what tRump said, get ready for the next verbal spew of the word Bullshit, which he has started to brainwash people with, when the Mueller report comes out.
They will be like parrots, repeating it over and over again.

[sarge43]

30. The voices in his head have taken complete control and that's terrifying.

One does not have to be a medical specialist to realize this. One doesn't have to be an apple tree to figure out that the apple is full of worms.

[Different Drummer]

48. "...a frighteningly incoherent, sweaty, two-hour shoutfest of a speech..."

That's what I saw.

[onetexan]

54. yes, my God, that's what i saw from this guy since the day he announced his candidacy

and now more deranged and horrifying than ever

[gateley]

50. People know he's not stable. Too many of them don't care.

As long as their 401K's are doing okay, they turn a blind eye.

[Honeycombe8]

51. It was all over the news. I guess the author doesn't read/watch the news.

One source even said the speech showed he was having a breakdown.

[dajoki]

61. Too much to keep track n/t

[3catwoman3]

52. He needed his adulation infusion...

...from his drooling worshippers.

[D_Master81]

53. The Press...

The press has been covering for this guy for 3 years. Yes there will be the daily "negative story" like he likes to claim. But if the press really wanted to take him out, they could do it in a week if they trulu wanted to.

[sprinkleeninow]

60. "....if the press really wanted to take him out...."

Evidently they don't want to.

I cannot believe any of this.

Bringing people to the brink of their endurance.

[Blue Owl]

55. Demented, Depraved Donnie

n/t

[Capperdan]

59. I wonder what percentage of the audience

Was still there after those two hours? We're they all drunk?