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Even when he is talking about a longtime ally's health crisis, Donald Trump cannot help but spew nonsense, with a heavy dose of b.s. Our president can't even keep his stories straight, so is it any wonder leaders and citizens around the globe have little confidence in Trump and view him as not worthy of their trust.
Consider Trump's statements about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was hospitalized over the weekend in Florida with what sources call an "overwhelming" bout of pneumonia. While Trump apparently wanted to draw attention and sympathy to his friend's condition, he could not do it, instead raising questions about his own mental health. Under the headline "'Absolutely demented': Trump raises eyebrows with 'bonkers' claims after pal is hospitalized, Robert Davis writes:
President Donald Trump stunned political analysts and observers on Sunday after he made a "bonkers" claim about one of his friends who was hospitalized.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a close ally of Trump's, was hospitalized in Florida on Sunday, according to a report by The New York Times. Giuliani was admitted to the hospital due to pneumonia, but a spokesperson for the former mayor said he is in "critical but stable" condition.
Trump took to Truth Social to share his concerns about Giuliani's health in a post that included an absolutely wild accusation, according to analysts.
In a twist that is not surprising considering that Trump is a malignant narcissist, he turned a statement that was supposed to be about Guiliani into a commentary on himself. Perhaps even more astonishing to some observers, Trump essentially blamed Giuliani's health problems on Democrats. (I'm not kidding!) Trump did not specifically blame Joe Biden, but you know that has to be coming; give it time.
Here is the content of Trump's Truth Social post, as reported by Robert Davis. (Warning: There is a lot to unload in the following statement, but I will highlight in yellow the part I think might be most important for America's future.):
"Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition," Trump wrote in the post. "What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!"
As you might expect, that drew severe blowback from several quarters. Raw Story reports:
Analysts and observers reacted to the post on social media.
"This is an absolutely demented statement from the president. He lost the 2020 election and that has nothing to do with Giuliani’s health problems," journalist Aaron Rupar posted on Bluesky.
"Rudy Giuliani isn't the only one having a health crisis. Trump seems to have forgotten that all 60 bogus court cases regarding the 2020 election were LOST and some of those lying lawyers are no longer allowed to practice. The President of the US is stark raving bonkers, daily, publicly," Elaina McCartney, a political commentator, posted on Bluesky.
"Everything always has to be about him," Xavier Gonzalez, a political commentator, posted on Bluesky.
What about the section I highlighted above as being of particular importance? In it, Trump is claiming Democrats "cheated on the Elections," an apparent reference to the 2020 presidential election that Trump lost to Joe Biden. Here is the key point: Trump now claims, and has been claiming for some time, that he was cheated in that election -- even though he already has admitted that he lost. Here are several examples where Trump said he knew he lost, usually using the term "by a whisker":
* NBC News: Trump admits in podcast appearance that he did not win the election against Joe Biden;
* The Guardian: Trump privately admitted to aides he lost the election, top aides testify;
* Common Cause: Eight times Trump knew he lost;
* Mother Jones: Trump finally is admitting he lost the 2020 election.
After all of these times admitting that he lost in 2020, why did Trump use the occasion of Rudy Giuliani's hospitalization to change course and claim Democrats won by cheating -- which in his own words, he knows is not true?
I submit this is a sign of jumbled, disordered thinking that is a hallmark of a personality disorder (actually two personality disorders) that can be destructive when everyday people unknowingly encounter them -- and can be ruinous to a nation that is under the misguided leadership of a president who is afflicted with them. That is why I recently started that we must find a way to force Trump and his GOP enablers out of office -- now, immediately, before it's too late, before he causes a disaster in the Middle East, with possible spread to Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, and beyond. Heck, this is a guy who has attacked or threatened an ever-growing list of nations -- Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Greenland, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Nigeria, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Panama, Iraq, the Gaza Strip and . . . you get the picture. That is not normal, but our leaders seem to be hoping Trumpism will work itself out -- or maybe wear itself out.
But I doubt that will happen, partly because our government is set up to thwart the kind of coup we sometimes see in less-advanced nations. Despite that, I have reached the following conclusion, and based on my social media feeds, I think substantial number of my countrymen (and women) have reached similar conclusions. Trump is the most dangerous adversary our nation has faced in our lifetimes, certainly within the western hemisphere. That's right, the strange phone calls are coming from inside the house. And we can't expect to root out a lawless adversary and his cohorts by adhering to rules that no longer apply. I suspect some type of military intervention is needed to extinguish the threat, followed by a Nuremberg-style commission to impose accountability and take steps to revise our governing documents so that no such threat ever takes hold in the future.
We will be taking a deeper look in upcoming posts at all of these challenges, especially the personality disorders that are driving Trump's unhinged approach to governance and the cult-like qualities that have some Americans -- despite all of the evidence he is unfit and never should have been allowed on the 2024 ballot due to his status as an insurrectionist -- still supporting a president who has driven us to the edge of a cliff. We invite you to stay with us.
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