The racist convicted felon Malignant Loser was campaigning yesterday in Wilkes-Barre, PA, struggling mightily to stay "on message." Once again, he lost it:
Donald Trump tried to reset his campaign at a rally in battleground Pennsylvania on Saturday as polls show Kamala Harris pulling ahead in key swing states.
But the former president quickly broke away from the prepared speech about economic issues to launch personal attacks on Harris including accusations that her agenda is both communist and fascist, and that she has “the laugh of a crazy person”.
Trump’s written speech before a mostly filled [Ed.: hmm, see pic above] 8,000-seat indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre focussed on economic policy, although a part of the audience left before he finished speaking. Some Republican strategists had hoped the former president could regain the initiative by zeroing in on issues on which opinion polls say voters have greater trust in Trump than the Democrats, such as inflation... (Ed.: not so fast there, stat boy) [snip]
... Trump once again veered repeatedly away from the script with rambling discourses from immigration to China and trans people, often based on outright falsehoods.
At one point, he even acknowledged that was what he was doing.
“They’ll say he was rambling. I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy, you know, really smart. I don’t ramble. But the other day, anytime I hit too hard, they say he was rambling, rambling,” he said. [snip]
Trump also challenged Harris’s legitimacy as the Democratic presidential candidate, describing it as “a coup” against Biden.
“Joe Biden hates her. This was an overthrow of a president,” he said.
Trump confused some in the audience with what appeared to be a claim that if Harris could become the candidate without a primary election, then so should he because he is so popular among Republicans.
“I said, so why are we having an election? They didn’t have an election. Why are we having an election?” he said...
Then he repeated his anti- Semitic calumny about Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Jewish voters:
“They turned him down because he’s Jewish. That’s why they turned him down. Now, we can be politically correct and not say that. I could say, well, they turned him down for various reasons. No, no, they turned him down because he’s Jewish,” said Trump.
“And I’ll tell you this, any Jewish person that votes for her or a Democrat has to go out and have their head examined.”...
We think we know who should have their head examined, Very Stable Genius.
He also had something that would only come from a narcissist with a broken brain:
... "I say that I am much better looking. I'm a better looking person than Kamala," Trump declared to the crowd, responding to a critique he had read from a Republican commentator.
According to Trump, the commentator suggested that one of Harris' greatest assets in this election was her attractiveness. "She said, Kamala has one big advantage, that she's a very beautiful woman," Trump recounted, before dismissing the notion with his own assessment of their relative appearance...
The demented gibberish -- the clear evidence of mental disease and decline -- and the self- absorbed, ignorant, hateful, and racist rhetoric are the Trump brand now, and will be through the election as the prospect of defeat and legal accountability loom larger and larger.
BONUS: A few more examples of meltdowns this month alone here, here, and here.
(Photo: Trump at Wilkes-Barre rally with lots of empty seats. Sad! / Jim Watson, AFP, Getty Images)
