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The Truth About Trump’s Press Conference | His obvious emotional instability is frightening, not funny. (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/politics

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Weird doesn't even begin to capture it.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 67 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Then things got even weirder.

Trump claimed that former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said bad things about Harris while he and Trump were on a helicopter together. Oh—and the helicopter was in trouble:

We thought maybe this was the end. We were in a helicopter, going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing. This was not a pleasant landing. And Willie was—he was a little concerned.

So I know him, but I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years. But he told me terrible things about her. But this is what you’re telling me, anyway, I guess. But he had a big part in what happened with Kamala. But he—he, I don’t know, maybe he’s changed his tune. But he—he was not a fan of hers very much, at that point.

Brown has not had to change his tune, because none of this ever happened. Trump may have confused *Willie *Brown with former California Governor JerryBrown, with whom Trump once shared an uneventful helicopter ride. (One might think they’re hard to mix up: Willie Brown is Black; Jerry Brown is white.) In any case, trying to untangle the half-cooked pasta of a Trump story isn’t really worth the effort. The issue is that a former president is frighteningly delusional, and if any other candidate had done this—Biden was roasted over stories that were obscure but turned out to be true—it would dominate the news with understandable alarm about the well-being of the candidate.

We’re getting a hair closer to where we need to be wrt speaking plainly and honestly about trump, but we’re still a long way off.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Right now, it's looking like Trump can't tell two black guys apart, and made up every detail except once being in a helicopter which made an emergency landing

[–] jaybone 9 points 3 months ago

It’s almost like it’s planned, because you could speculate that he meant Jerry brown. And then you could go ask Jerry brown what he said about Kamala. And he probably won’t say anything because he’ll just say the story wasn’t about him. So again Trump gets away with unchecked lies.