Donald Trump has moved beyond claims that are lies or misleading and moved into the irrational. (Photo: ScreenCap)
Donald Trump has lost touch with any sense of what a normal person considers reality.
This morning when asked about 4% inflation, instead of expressing a concern, a plan to reduce it to prevent peoples’ money from losing purchasing power, he crowed: “ I love inflation.”
He is a man who caused a criminal investigation to be launched against the Fed Chair to pressure him to lower rates, and now he will likely have to live with an increase in rates.
We shall see if he loves that. Wonder whether new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh really understands the bargain he made.
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Trump is so out of touch with any sense of reality for the plight of average people in this country. And, the one metric he has been so proud of, the stock market, its tanking due to inflation driving fears of higher rates.
It’s not Biden this time, as his people are saying this late into his term; its his moronic policies in the Middle East, his attack on Iran, and possibly his tariffs. He has announced 38 times he is ‘’close to a deal’’ that will end the Iran war.
What a fool; he has no credibility.
Today and yesterday the market reacted to a strong possibility that hostilities will resume on a broad scale after reciprocal attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. His incompetency is messing with peoples’ retirements. He doesn’t understand and he doesn’t care.
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Are people happy with how he has conducted himself with malevolence, incompetency and negligence? No, they are not, and he is bound to at least lose the House in the mid-terms. It will be shocking if he does not.
More importantly, there is a decent chance he will loose the Senate; the Dems only need five seats to obtain a majority and he and the Republican Senators shredded respect for their party.
I listened to what was happening in Maine and was not surprised to see Graham Platner win his primary. He had no real competition, but the voters could still have rejected him. I think they like what he is about, flaws and all. And he has flaws.
We will see what happens in this race against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins who just announced her 10,000th consecutive Senate vote.
The gist is that many of her votes were for Trump and his policies and his nominations. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, for example, despite her claim to be a moderate.
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The voters of Maine will recognize her for what she is…an enabler of Trump. I believe they will reject her more than they will embrace Platner, but the results will be the same.
Around the country, Trump has put his fat, short thumb on the scale in primaries for the Senate by endorsing the opponents of incumbents whom he believes were not loyal to his narcissistic self.
Those endorsements may well play out to work against the Republicans if this economic mess he has single handedly created continues into the fall, and likely it will.
As for his public expressions, they’re getting worse, not better. He has said he doesn’t care about the financial plight of the average American were considering foreign policy.
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Hopefully, voters will react adversely to those Republicans he has endorsed by tying them to Trump. The Democrats running against his endorsees will not hesitate to point out that he has affixed imprimatur on their back, making him a non-literal target.
But the Democrats need to get their act together and craft their message.
Its been a hard, hard 19 months with an incompetent and evil force at the helm of this ship, but there are good odds that he can be controlled for the rest of his term and the damage he has done mitigated if the Dems can flip Congress.
If the House and Senate change hands, I hope that the House is not foolish enough to start impeachment proceedings unless they are absolutely sure he can be convicted by two-thirds in the Senate, an unlikely scenario.
Otherwise, they have more important business to do and they need to get to it without wasting time.