What goes on In Drumpfs head is a mystery, to be sure. Der Gropenfuhrer inhabits a fantastical world in which crowds magically triple or quadruple in size, another layer can be added to JFK conspiracy theories after 50+ years, and Steve Bannon is qualified to hold the security of our nation in liver spotted hands.
Part V of the LA Times continuing take down of Dolt45, “Conspiracy Theorist in Chief”, explores the consequences of having a mind bereft of even a average allotment of discernment in the Oval Office.
The editors fly us through some of The Diaper Don’s most delusional imaginings before lighting on the fever dream that has the most serious, far reaching, and damaging implications — his charge that the former President had placed a “tapp” on his phone.
“This is pathetic, but it’s also alarming. If Trump feels free to take to Twitter to make wild, paranoid, unsubstantiated accusations against his predecessor, why should the nation believe what he says about a North Korean missile test, Russian troop movements in Europe or a natural disaster in the United States?”
They point out that his taste for half baked CT and fully cracked agitprop leads to remarkably bad choices...
“His engagement with, to put it politely, out-of-the-mainstream ideas has attracted some strange bedfellows. It may not be fair to attribute to his senior aide, Steve Bannon, all the views that were published on the controversial alt-right site Breitbart.com, of which Bannon was the executive chairman. But it is certainly fair to wonder why Trump has elevated to a senior West Wing position a man who has trafficked in nonsense, bigotry and rank speculation.”
The editors then lament the death of the thin hope voiced by some that our dementia addled Chief of Spuriousness would somehow morph into an adult upon entering our highest office.
“But there’s no sign of that. Trump seems as willing to mouth off today as he was on the campaign — about wiretaps, inauguration crowds, fraudulent voters, you name it. And the problem with that is that he is no longer a blowhard TV personality or a raunchy guest on Howard Stern or a self-promoting real estate magnate or even a long-shot candidate for the Republican nomination. He’s now the president of the United States, and he is allowing the credibility of his unimaginably powerful office to be exploited and wasted on crackpot ideas that have been rightly discredited by politicians from both parties.”