Does Trump seem more desperate and deranged than usual?

[Dr. Jack]

First, let's recognize that even on his best days, Trump seems like a cornered animal with a tenuous grip on reality. However, I don't feel like I've ever seen him as unhinged and scared as he seems right now. And that really is saying something. I don't know if I have just been reading way too many Jan 6th related updates in the past few days which is distorting my perception of what's going on with Donny Diaperload, so that is why I want to see what other people think. Is it just me or does he seem absolutely terrified and completely deranged? His erratic behavior combined with the revelatios trickling out of the House committee and news from New York and Gerogia seem to be pointing at something substantial. Are the walls actually closing in on him or is it just more of the same old shit from the Orange Clown?

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Not really

45 has always come across as touched in the head to me - so I'm not seeing any difference.

[Ocelot II]

2. You may be right.

He's never seemed anywhere close to normal, but his not-normal speechifying used to be mostly just mean and hateful and lie-infested. Lately, though, he sounds genuinely mad, like load him up with Thorazine and cart him off to a quiet place with padded walls mad. It's more the tone than the actual content, though. He sounds more crazed and desperate than just rageful and venomous.

[MerryHolidays]

3. I actually do think he is

He can't stop this for the next three years. EVEN if the Ds lose the House and/or Senate in November 2022, which I still don't think is a foregone conclusion, all of the House findings will make their way to the Justice Department, including the US Attorney offices around the country and the FBI. The Ds will control those agencies until January 20, 2025 at the earliest. He can be further investigated and prosecuted for three more years. There is no way he can withstand that.

Trump can't stop this. He could when he was President, but he can't now.

And the courts don't look to be giving him any kind of break.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I actually see him as more focused on specific tactics than usual, however illogical, illegal

and flawed they may be. He really does think he can sell these arguments to the public, turning the tactics of rule of law against rule of law itself and replacing it with his own view of the legal system where he is unimpeded. He has long experience at fighting laws - that's what developers and landlords do - fight the government to make things cheaper, easier for their own businesses.

[FakeNoose]

5. The media is showing him as crazy as he really is

Back when Chump was the Prezz, the journos used to take his "word salads" and edit them into something that sounded somewhat intelligent. At least it seemed he was speaking in complete sentences then. But to anyone who actually listened to his words - even then - nothing he said ever made sense. He never completed a thought, ever. His speeches and remarks were always garbage, but the journalists prevented most of us from realizing it. Also his White House staff used to rewrite everything for him. Now they aren't doing it any more and it's easy to see how scrambled his brain is.

Yes he REALLY IS that crazy, and he was just like that while he was leading our nation.

[yonder]

10. +1.

[RKP5637]

6. He so whacked out, delusional and lying all the time it's hard to tell WTF is going on

in his deranged mind. The guy could fill a psychiatric encyclopedia just on his case files.

[Notek]

13. True,

But it will be the biggest and most perfect case file in the universe. Millions of only the best people will come to admire it.

[RKP5637]

15. Ha, yep ... and it will become a "How to be like Trump" guide for the GOP.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Yes

The walls are closing in on him

[doc03]

8. No that is just normal Trump. nt

[frogmarch]

9. In recent video clips,

he looks ready to physically attack someone - anyone.

[OhZone]

11. Yes, slightly

[dweller]

12. As soon as he can get the blame pinned

on Pence he will go back to Mango Mussolini strutting triumphantly, claiming he was right all along, only he can fix it etc
But first he has to get pence to confess



✌🏻

[Ohio Joe]

14. Yes, very much so...

Even the shit lawyers he is down to must have told him he is in very real jeopardy. He absolutely heard it from the decent and good lawyers when they started refusing to work for him anymore.

[NCjack]

16. He will be worse when the evidence emerges that he beat the crap out of his wife.

[Boomerproud]

17. When he was in the Oval Office (yes, shudder) he would rip

up government paper and his sheep would retrieve and tape it back together. What does that tell you? Matt Taibbi (sp) wrote about in Rolling Stone years ago.

[Chainfire]

18. I don't think that he is any different.

He has shown us for years that he is an ignorant and evil clown with Fascist principals. The man is insane but, with support of his followers, he remains somewhat functional.

Trump is not our biggest problem; it is the rise of radical conservatism, the willingness of masses of Americans to throw our Democracy out the window, that is the real issue. Trump is just the poster boy...for now. Following the fall of Trump, which is more likely to be brought about by Big Macs than our system of justice, there are other Fascist bastards lined up to take his place. Who knows, there may be a silver tongued charismatic leader among them that will have us goose-stepping into the history of the decline and fall of Democracy in the West.

I am an old man, I have lived long enough, I won't have to deal with it. However if the young and middle aged people don't wake up to what is happening, if they don't begin too feel some sense of urgency about the open attempts to destroy Democracy, they will be doomed to live under a Nacht und Nebel government. The "Republicans" are following an historical blueprint. The warnings signs are clear.

Your papers please.

[Talitha]

19. He's always been nutty as squirrel shit, but

Yeah, this goes far beyond that. I'm guessing he's never been this close to handcuffs before, and he's getting pretty desperate.

Those 4 years in office heightened his sense of indestructability, but stuff is getting too real for him now - and he's absolutely terrified.

Isn't that GREAT?

[Aristus]

20. When one is as crazy as he is, it becomes very difficult to make subdivisions into

increased crazy, decreased crazy, etc.

[Baked Potato]

21. He's got crippling "Don't touch Princess" fever. Nt

[malaise]

22. Yes and he should

He's a cornered rat

[Wounded Bear]

23. What did Malcolm Nance call it? Target getting twitchy or something?