Cillizza CNN - The 11 most dangerous things Donald Trump said in his Montana speech

[underpants]

Normally, I go through the transcript of Trump's speeches to pick out 30 or 40 (or 50) of the most eye-popping lines, the sentences that stood out most to me for whatever reason. I tend to take a light-hearted approach to this exercise because Trump's word-salad tendencies when speaking extemporaneously are exacerbated when reading a transcript of his speeches.

Today, I am going to take a different approach.

This is a dangerously naive view of the Russian president. First of all, the US intelligence community has unanimously said that Russia actively meddled in the 2016 election. Under Putin, Russia invaded the Ukraine and annexed the Crimean peninsula. Then there's the fact that people critical of Putin -- including journalists -- keep winding up murdered under very suspicious circumstances. These are not the actions of a "fine" person.

9. "I said it the other day, yes, she is a low-IQ individual, Maxine Waters. I said it the other day. High -- I mean, honestly, she's somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe that."
What Trump is saying: A prominent African-American female politician is very dumb. And, no, none of this is by accident.

11. "We will take that little kit and say, but we have to do it gently. Because we're in the '#MeToo' generation so I have to be very gentle. And we will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn't hit her and injure her arm even though it only weighs probably two ounces. And we will say, I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test so that it shows you're an Indian."

Truly remarkable. In his usual riff about the questions surrounding Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native-American heritage, Trump shows his true colors on the #MeToo movement. He seems to suggest that the movement, which grew out of a series of news stories of powerful men sexually harassing women, is about political correctness run rampant. Trump seems to think -- or at least say -- that he has to be careful not to offend the #MeToo movement by throwing a DNA heritage kit at Warren. Which both deeply misunderstands what the #MeToo movement is about and denigrates the entire idea of women feeling safe to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/06/politics/donald-trump-montana-speech/index.html

[True Dough]

1. Just another sign of how terrible Trump is

The list couldn't be contained to a top 10!

[Rhiannon12866]

7. +1000!

Good point!

[MadDAsHell]

2. The problem with these kinds of analayses is only people who already hate Drumpf will read it.

It will be completely ignored by those who most need to let this information sink home.

[regnaD kciN]

4. Plus, there's the "when did you stop beating your wife" aspect to it...

I mean, when you have a major pundit having to explain that Democrats don’t really want MS-13 running rampant in your neighborhood, you've already lost.

[malthaussen]

9. Exactly. And the GOP does it to the Dems every time.

You could choose the most absurd allegation, phrase it as a question, and a day later everyone is wondering why that wife-beater still has a job.

-- Mal

[sprinkleeninow]

3. When he remarks ...."view of the Russian president", is he referring to

the one in our oval office?

[regnaD kciN]

5. What is actually the "most dangerous"...

...is a 12th item: that, every time he goes off on one of these deranged authoritarian rants, you don’t hear a peep from the "responsible" Republican congressional bloc that's supposed to provide a check on the power of a runaway president. Probably too busy fantasizing about which next item from their wishlist for perpetual control they can get him to rubber-stamp next.

I mean, they can’t even be bothered to be "deeply troubled" anymore...

[3catwoman3]

6. IQ in the mid-60s, eh?

Trump must be projecting, yet again.

[Snellius]

8. Cillizza and MSM can't see the forest through the trees

The press still seems to report on Trump as if he were a normal politician, even a normal, halfway rational human being, still believing there's some actual substance in these weird rants. By far the most dangerous thing was not specific assertions but Trump's overall state of mind. The Montana speech was the most obvious expression of how completely unhinged he really is. The media doesn't seem equipped to know how to psychoanalyze this kind of mental weirdness. That rant about Elton John and his organ, for example, was really out there. Here on DU members picked up on it right away but the press still wants to talk about Trump as if he's reasonably sane. CNN should include a psychiatrist on their panel of political pundits.