This quote from a Pi Day press conference is just precious:
if we had a proper wall, which we’re building now as we speak, and we’re getting a lot more funding for it, as you know, with what we’re talking about with the vote today, whether it’s positive or not, I’m vetoing it, unless I don’t have to veto, I think that’s unlikely, I’ll do a veto, it’s not going to be overturned. But we have done a great job at the border through apprehension.
The whole thing is a glorious clusterfuck of rhetorical fail, but I love the bit that benefits from interpretation as a Freudian admission he’s using fear mongering: “we have done a great job at the border through apprehension.”
And, of course, “whether it’s positive or not, I’m vetoing it, unless I don’t have to veto, I think that’s unlikely, I’ll do a veto”. Seriously. Every single day is like a celebration of the 25th to this guy … and I’m not talking Christmas.
There’s something seriously wrong with the president’s brain and half of the country is pretending that he’s not completely out to lunch. I guess I’m not the only person who’s desperate to see Mike Pence not get into the oval office.
Trump sounds like a bad AI programmed to sound like Trump.
PS – on one of the podcasts I listen to (Trump Inc) they had an outclip of Trump giving a deposition on some real estate suit. He was fairly coherent and was able to put sentences together and did not show any of the “infinite loop” effect that he appears to suffer from, now. It’s interesting how much he has declined in the last decade. One ought to be able to diagnose him from that alone but nobody is confronting it.
He sounds like he’s developing (or has developed) a lovely case of dementia. Repeating himself, can’t remember what he said six words ago, incoherent…
I’ve missed your blog posts. Good to see you haven’t abandoned it. 😀
I have a feeling we’ll be hearing the word “apprehension” a lot in the coming weeks. Not just because he repeats himself all the time, but because it’s a big, smart-sounding word with many varied definitions. And he only needed to learn one word for all those potential uses. Such a deal! I’ll bet he was downright giddy when someone told him it was a word. The best word!