The MAGA "weave": Donald Trump picks up steam as he dissembles on stage
Is Donald Trump losing it for real this time? That's a question being asked and answered all over social media and cable news this week in the wake of his bizarre performance in Pennsylvania on Monday night. I know his weird behavior is something we're all very aware of and also unfortunately aware that it has been normalized over the past few years to the point that it hardly even gets mentioned by the mainstream media much less analyzed with the same focus and fervor given to Joe Biden's verbal stumbles or Hillary Clinton's emails. But Monday night's very eccentric performance even got the Washington Post's attention. The paper described it with this headline:
Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode
After the Trump campaign left thousands of people stranded in the desert in the middle of the night following his Coachella, California, rally over the weekend, they once again dropped the ball by holding his crowded Oak, Pennsylvania, town hall in a venue without air conditioning, so a couple of people fainted shortly after it began. (Trump later posted on his social media site that they fainted from the excitement. He really does think he's Elvis.)
Just listen to that laughter when he insults the Wall St. Journal and the editor of Bloomberg News. That's not about their wallets. Their wallets are fine. That's about their ids.
The campaign briefly halted the program, as they often do when these happen. Still, this time once they played a little musical interlude from Trump's playlist, he abruptly decided he didn't want to take any more questions. Instead, he had his minions continue to play his very eccentric song selection for almost 40 minutes as he danced his little dance on the stage with the sycophantic moderator, North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, awkwardly trying to follow along.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Trump has seen that the Harris campaign has a DJ entertaining people at her rallies and thought he could replicate it with his special Mar-a-Lago playlist featuring Pavarotti and Sinead O'Connor. But watching him........
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