Pierce: This Is the Most Singularly Batsh*t Crazy Thing Any President Has Said Out Loud in Public

[mcar]

This Is the Most Singularly Batsh*t Crazy Thing Any President Has Said Out Loud in Public
25th Amendment now.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 5, 2020

Do it. Do it now. The man is outside his mind.

The president* held a press event Friday morning to tout the fact that unemployment is not as far over 13 percent as people thought it might be. (Hey, you take what you can get, right?) Then he said this, when asked about George Floyd, who was murdered by police in the streets of Minneapolis.

"George is looking down right now and saying ‘this is a great thing happening for our country. It’s great day for him, a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality. It’s really what our Constitution requires and what our country is about.”

This is the most singularly batshit crazy thing any president ever has said out loud in public, at least in my memory. Nixon talked crazy, but only in private, and it took two years worth of lawsuits to pry those recorded comments out of the White House. Reagan was plainly batty, at least throughout his second term, but in public, he still managed to hit his marks, smile, and stay largely on text. But this? Holy mother of god, someone get the net.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32782241/trump-george-floyd-looking-down-great-day/

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[BusyBeingBest]

2. It's a great day for the guy who was murdered last week.

Uh huh. When do the butterfly nets get used?

[Demovictory9]

46. and african american unemployment INCREASED!!

[Wellstone ruled]

3. So he watched

the George Floyd Eulogy yesterday. Similar looking down phrase was said,but,Trump had to put a Murdoch Spin on it.

Trump is a master of catch phrases for polishing his image.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. "polishing his image" -- If you polish a turd, you just get shiney shit.

[Grokenstein]

25. Not even that. You just get shit smeared on everything.

And Tiny Toadstool loves smearing shit on everything.

[Lock him up.]

42. The cRiminal maggot "tries" to polish his image...

Every time he "tries" doing that, he fails to polish it.


Maybe he should use "disinfectant" instead.

[Leghorn21]

4. 100% agreed. I watched him say it and I said no fkn way

He could NOT have said that
But here we are

[yellowcanine]

5. Putting in the "You can't make this shit up" folder.

The man is about 5 cans short of a six pack.

[mcar]

7. Oh yeah

Batshit insane.

[Loge23]

6. Just another day in Dystopian America

Clearly, this morning's nonsensical ramblings from the #IPOTUS represent a new low, but so what? Either later today or tomorrow there will be another even lower than that.
He'll use a Bible, a church, or a murdered citizen as props - all in the last week - just as he has used our military, our flag, and our Constitution before. We should be relieved that our military leaders seemingly have seen through his fascist actions this week.
But, tomorrow is another day and we have a long, long time until November.
It should be clear that this country waning democracy is teetering on the brink of collapse at this point - clear to everyone but the enablers in the Senate, House, Supreme Court, and Cabinet.
We're in for a rough road ahead.

[onetexan]

27. in deed, been dystopian since 2015 when the Idiot started his candidacy

and everyday since then has been dystopian. From now to when President Biden takes office it will continue to get worse. We live in the Idiot's delusion made real. But we must persist and fight so that we can get back to normal.

[PSPS]

8. same as "george looked down and said I was the best president ever! his favorite president!!11!"

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. I can think of what would be an even greater day.

Any guesses as to what I am thinking?

[smirkymonkey]

15. Oh, oh! I think I can.

And I'm in full agreement.

[maxsolomon]

10. Shoehorn that pander in there, Donny.

Our country is ABOUT Equality?

[bucolic_frolic]

11. 25 for 45 or Bust!

We need a slogan that captures the problem and the solution!

[BittyJenkins]

12. One word left out of the quote...Maybe

That was brass and intensional.

[maxsolomon]

14. Right; it was pretty intense.

President Sociopath is quite skilled at adding qualifiers to his slanderous and offensive speech.

"Maybe", "I hear", "Some people say"...

Many people are saying "Welcome to DU"!

[moonseller66]

13. Trump is...

the kind of person you don't like at first, but grow to hate.

[Dream Girl]

17. This is purely intentional and almost clever

(1) it amplifies his posite (fake) job numbers
(2) deflects attention from his disastrous photo op.

[crickets]

22. True, almost clever. Barr's little green men will not let that deflection last long. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. I cut him some slack. He's only repeating what the portrait of Nixon told him last night. nt

[mcar]

19. ...

[spanone]

20. Mr. Floyd isn't even in the ground yet and trump is using him for his campaign.

fuck trump with rusty razor wire

[marble falls]

21. Batshit crazy is actually a mild way of describing it. Fucking diabolic might be more accurate.

[Grammy23]

23. So who will get the fun task of

explaining what he really meant?? And how we’re all just taking his words out of context.

They’re probably drawing straws right now.

[tblue37]

31. Maybe he was being sarcastic. nt

[johnthewoodworker]

24. This is the craziest thing he has said today, so far.

[Dios Mio]

26. Amazed he can say something ignorant every day.

[cstanleytech]

28. If it was possible to commune with the dead I suspect George would right now be telling Trump

[scarletwoman]

29. Trump is an extraordinarily defective simulacrum of a human being.

A Frankenstein's monster assemblage of factory-reject, ill-fitting, substandard, and missing parts.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

30. Lord how I hate him. ☠️

[MoonRiver]

32. Maybe the craziest thing any president has said, but dementia is progressive, so......

[napi21]

47. I don't excuse his disgusting talk & acts by blaming dementia. He's well aware of everything he

says & does. People with dementia believe things that aren't necessarily true but they rarely say mean, disgusting things. This JA says what he believes and is almost always mean, nasty & rarely true,

[dhill926]

53. what you said....

[Beartracks]

33. Trump's message to Americans, and to George Floyd: "Hey, it could be worse!"

And he'd be more than happy to make it worse just to prove his point.

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[IronLionZion]

34. Is Donny volunteering to join him?

since we know how much he loves to look down on everybody, the only place left for him to go is out of this world.

[world wide wally]

35. Absolutely certifiable

[saidsimplesimon]

36. narcissist with delusions of grandeur

and an ugly, obese monster

[The Mouth]

37. He's just trolling

That's all he can do at this point.

[Cha]

38. BLOTUS Keeps Digging his Own political

grave.

Imagine what the Floyd family thinks of the head Idiot in the WH.

Mahalo, mcar

[BComplex]

39. My take on it is that he knows when he goes NOBODY is going to give him a eulogy anywhere

near as kind and heartfelt as George Floyd's was. Trump knows there isn't that much good to say about him. Can you imagine how that hurts a narcissist? He can read twitter and know that people mock him all the time. He knows when he goes people are going to dance in the streets and dance on his grave, and probably piss on his grave.

[Karadeniz]

40. O.k., This may be his most insensitive moment, but I think his UV/bleach cure still holds the

Record for stupidest.

[Hekate]

41. KnR. Charlie Pierce nails it again.

[LudwigPastorius]

44. I don't know.

I think it's a tossup between the 'inject disinfectant' remark and this:

"I don't use insulin. Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it..."

But, the 25th should have been invoked the day he was sworn in, because of all the batshit crazy he spewed during the campaign:

“I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.” (Said before he was privy to any national intelligence.)

“Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long [to kick out protesters] is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.” (...more salient than ever after last week.)

"The doctor said, ‘Man you have the blood pressure of a great, great, athlete who is 20 years old. 110, I like that, because I like being a great athlete.”

“I will give you everything. … I’m the only one.” (said to a rabid crowd of MAGAts)

“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart."

[Danascot]

45. Day 1,232

GOP, it's on you. Again.

[chwaliszewski]

48. Batsh*t crazy? More like bugf*ck crazy.

This evil idiot is a dumpster fire having its ass eaten out by another dumpster fire.

[Captain Zero]

49. It's sick, sadistic, and passive-aggressive.

He is mental. Totally inappropriate. #RESIGN

[jimlup]

50. Fittingly "Bat Shit" brought us Covid-19

The president continues to set new records ...

My concern is about how things play out after the night of November 3, 2020.

[Evolve Dammit]

51. And the world shakes head in disbelief at how how far the U.S. has sunk

[wnylib]

52. I have heard two different media sources,

ABC and NPR, give the following comment after reporting what the orange fascist said about the economic report and George Floyd: "Whatever that is supposed to mean." In both cases, the comment was part of the regular newscast.

[PatrickforO]

54. Yep. Batshit crazy. The guy can't even put a sentence together at this point.