Charlie Sykes: “Normally, I’d rather be eaten by fire ants than sit through a Trump press conference, but on Thursday, I made the poor life choice of listening to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago performance.”
“My quick take: What, in the name of all that is holy, rational, and coherent did we just listen to?”
“Most media accounts do not come close to capturing the wretched shambolism of it all, and some reporters scrabbled desperately for nuggets of coherence in the former president’s rolling gibberish…”
“If this had been Joe Biden, the media would have been on fire with speculation and about his cognitive decline and mental health. If Kamala Harris turned in a performance even remotely like this, it would be regarded as a full-on disaster. But since this is Trump, it’s just another Thursday.”
Chris Hayes: “This is the kind of performance from Trump that, if the Republican party was still a functioning institution, would have a lot of people panicked and wondering about how to get him to drop out.”
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Trump faces questions about getting outworked by Harris
Since the Republican National Convention concluded July 18, former President Trump has held five campaign rallies.
Vice President Harris will hold that many this week alone.
Democrats and Harris campaign aides have reveled in the contrast in schedules, using it to stoke questions about Trump’s stamina and taunt him with Harris’s large, enthusiastic crowds.
It’s a drastic shift from when President Biden was in the race and would travel to campaign roughly once a week. It has led some Republicans to suggest Trump will need to ramp up his presence in battleground states to keep pace, even as the former president bristled at the idea that he’s lying low.
“I think it’s a legitimate question why Trump’s not doing more events,” said one Republican strategist who requested anonymity. “He’s not a young man himself. He’s going to need to step it up.”
While the Harris campaign barnstorms the battleground states likely to decide November’s election, Trump is only holding one campaign event this week: a Friday night rally in Montana, a state he won by 16 percentage points in 2020 that is home to a hotly contested Senate race in the fall.
“Low energy, @realdonaldtrump?” Harris’s campaign posted on the social platform X, alongside a photo of their respective schedules for the week…..
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Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) suggested Donald Trump may be “not all there anymore” after he held a lengthy and rambling press conference, The Hill reports.
Said Meeks: “This guy, he was incoherent, nonsensical. He was an individual who sounded like he had a low IQ.”
He added that he is “getting really nervous” listening to Trump speak because “he can’t seem to finish a sentence” and said he thinks something is “wrong with him.”….
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Susan Glasser: “There is no one, with the possible exception of the President himself, who has mourned the end of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign more than Donald Trump.”
“For eighteen days, Trump has refused to let go of his grief, alternating between anger and denial at the loss of his favorite target. On Tuesday, apparently freaked out by Kamala Harris’s rise in the polls and her decision that morning to name Tim Walz, a popular Midwestern governor, as her running mate, Trump, ensconced in his Mar-a-Lago resort, all but demanded that Biden return to the race.”
“In a bizarre social-media post, the ex-President advanced the theory that Biden was so upset about his ‘historically tragic mistake’ to step aside that he might crash the Democratic National Convention later this month and try to take back the nomination. Talk about wish-casting.”
“Apparently no one mentioned to Trump that Harris had, as of Monday night, already locked up the Democratic nod in a virtual roll-call vote of Party delegates. Of course, the point was not plausibility; Trump’s post was better read as a cry for help. He liked the 2024 election a lot more when he was sure he was going to win it.”
More bad news for Trump. Joe Rogan has endorsed RFK Jr. Rogans bro-douche audience is the kind of voter Trump tried to lock in with the terrible Vance pick.
Thought he was a Trump die hard. That IS surprising. Still not listening to his show.
This IS just throwaway’s…
Joe Rogan Endorses RFK Jr.
Joe Rogan told his massive podcast audience that he supports longshot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Daily Beast reports.
Said Rogan: “He’s the only one that makes sense to me.”
He added: “They do it on the left, they do it on the right. They gaslight you, they manipulate you, they promote narratives — and the only one who is not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”