It’s sunny and comfortable this Wednesday early afternoon in California’s Central Valley — maybe autumn is finally here to stay.
Meanwhile, the T-Rump is not only a lying asshole, but way-unaware he’s fully and completely dumb as a charred tree stump:
When you say you’re “basically truthful” and the other person can’t stop laughing
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 9, 2024
Details via The New Republic a couple of hours ago:
During an hour-and-a-half-long interview on Flagrant, a comedy podcast hosted by stand-up comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, Trump spoke so incoherently that the hosts started to laugh at the Republican presidential nominee.
At one point, Singh asked Trump to speculate about who was responsible for his assassination attempt. As Trump embarked on his nonanswer, he became so blatantly incoherent he had to outright explain his own disjointed speech.
“You know, I do a thing called the weave,” Trump started to explain. “And there are those that are there fair that say, ‘This guy is so genius,’ and then others would say, ‘Oh he rambled.’ I don’t ramble.”
Trump claimed he actually needed an “extraordinary memory” to get so off topic.
“They don’t give you credit for that,” Schulz said, laughing, “that you can go all the way over here, and then get back.”
“I can go so far here, or there,” Trump said. “And I can come back to exactly where I started.”
As the interviewers cackled, it became clear that Trump—as ridiculous as his answers were—was being entirely serious about how impressive his “weaving” was.
Trump continued to explain the weave by repeating exactly what he had already said: “And some people think it’s so genius, but the bad people, what they say is, ‘You know, he was rambling.’”
“Yeah, you really weaved your way out of answering my question. Twice, ” Singh noted.
Later in the interview, Trump spoke so incoherently that the hosts started to openly laugh at the Republican presidential nominee’s “weave.”
“Dwight Eisenhower was sort of a moderate, General Eisenhower. Did you know that they had 8 percent generals president of the United States? Eight percent were generals, 92 percent were politicians, and then you had Trump,” Trump said. “You see, that’s a weave.”
As Trump tried to explain why he had even started to talk about Eisenhower, the hosts snickered, and Trump seemed to grow more and more confused.
“You gotta be sharp,” Trump said. “If you’re not sharp you’re dead.”
At another point, Schulz just couldn’t hold it together when Trump called himself “basically a truthful person.”
Trump’s disastrous appearance comes as his team launches criticism at Kamala Harris, attacking the vice president for appearing on a (far more popular) podcast in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Further backstory to the lying scream-laughter from Raw Story:
After he left the White House in January of 2021, the Washington Post estimated that he had made more than 30,000 false or misleading statements over the span of just four years.
What was particularly striking, reported the Post, is that Trump grew more and more dishonest as his term progressed.
“Trump averaged about six [false] claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year — and 39 claims a day in his final year,” the Post wrote at the time. “Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.”
Even today and Joe Biden nails T-Rump’s lying-ass BS in dangerous circumstances — not so funny here:
T-Rump lying through his puckered ass, or not, yet here we are once again…
(Illustration out front: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here.)