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Sanity Hanging By a Thread, Watch the Man Face Reality
Trump is supposed to debate in a few weeks, are we ready?
The news this morning was full of stories about an interview Trump gave on Newsmax, the far right network. In it, he did his usual haywire crazy but this time he seemed to really lose it, speculating about jailing Hillary Clinton as though his beef with her was current news.
Apparently he would not stop with his rant and the host could not rein him in. When a Newsmax host is bewildered by Trump, even their weird universe starts to fold in on itself. What if, you can hear that host thinking, this guy is really nuts?
The first thing I thought about on reading this is, what about the upcoming debate? June 27th, only a few weeks away. Trump quickly agreed to this before his felony convictions, uncharacteristically agreeing to Biden’s terms, in particular the no live audience condition.
Of course he almost immediately tried to throw a spanner in the works by saying he would require the sitting President of the United States to take a drug test as a condition of Trump debating. Trump, the ex-President and convicted felon, thinks he can dictate a drug test to the leader of the free world?
Aside from that, I’m trying to picture Trump on stage with a man he has been repeatedly demonizing in every speech, portraying Biden as the source of all evil and the Devil incarnate, while he enjoys some of his cracked supporters celebrating him as the next messiah.
My debate scenario, and I really will be shocked if Trump shows up, imagines this new incarnation of Jesus facing Lucifer in the flesh, a few feet away, on national television. I’m of two minds about this. First, the spectacle, for a political junkie, would be riveting in an extremely uncomfortable way. Second, the contrast, if Trump continues his ranting and raving style, will look really weird to average Americans who have not been paying much attention to any of it.
The reality here is we never get network television covering the entirety of Trump’s stump speeches, those he gives to the true MAGA faithful at his orchestrated campaign rallies. We get sound bites at best, cherry picked to show he is either demented, or on top of things…
