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Another “Word Salad” from Trump

On live TV from the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said many things. There were so many things that did not make any sense that I grabbed a pen and started making notes. I know I missed some things, but today’s blog post is a sampling.

I you think Donald Trump is a stable person after you read the following, then maybe you need to see a medial professional and get checked out.

Photo of the White House, Washington, D.C.
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Photo by Kristina Volgenau on Unsplash

Trump said, “Maybe some people are saying they like a dictator. I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense. I’m a smart person.” How many more times must he say that before we all fall for it?

Was it a coincidence that the same day Trump talked about dictators a giant banner of his portrait was hung on the outside of the offices of the U.S. Department of Labor? How dictatorship-like!

He said Washington, D.C. will be “spotless.” He said people have been spending millions of dollars repaving the streets, but he is going to do it for two dollars. I hope Clark Construction was listening. He just said they’re only getting two dollars.

In the same rambling remarks, Trump said that some of the people that have been arrested in Washington, D.C. are in “solid confinement.” I wonder if that is anything like solitary confinement.

He signed several Executive Orders and bragged about his signature. He turned to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and asked her to confirm that his is a great signature.

He called Governor Pritzker of Illinois “a slob” and said he needed to spend more time at the gym. He said he would send troops to Chicago and end crime there in three days, but then he said he won’t send troops to Chicago.

One of the Executive Orders is for Hegseth to set up specialized National Guard units around the country to “deal with public order issues.”

He claimed that people are burning the American flag all over the country. One of his Executive Orders says if you burn the flag, you will spend one year in jail. He claimed that many flag burners are paid by the “radical left.” What about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that burning the U.S. flag is a legal act of protest?

He said the United States is the most respected country in the world now.

He said he is being called “the President of Europe” and he considers that “a great honor.” I have no idea who called him that!

As he has said hundreds of times recently, he repeated that the U.S. was “dead” a year ago and now it is “the hottest country in the world.” I don’t know what that means.

Director of the U.S. Marshall Service presented Trump with an honorary U.S. Marshall service badge and a handcuff key. He profusely thanked Trump for everything he’s done and claimed that all law enforcement personnel in the country thank him.

He said he prefers for cities to invite him to send in the National Guard because otherwise he will go in and then be criticized. The guy doesn’t want to be criticized! But a few minutes later, he said he didn’t want to send troops into cities because then he would be praised.

He claimed there hadn’t been a murder in D.C. in 11 days and that hasn’t happened “in 200 years.” (Actually, it happened in February/March of this year.) He said, “The real people” in D.C. “want us here.” (Who are the “real people”?)

He went on and on about fake news. He talked about how he won the election. He said the reporters in the room know he is right but they won’t report it that way.

He bragged that the U.S. is not sending any money to Ukraine now and he got $1 trillion in rare earth minerals from Ukraine for the U.S. No other U.S. President in my lifetime would have blackmailed Ukraine into giving up its rare earth minerals, much less boast about it.

He called former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie “a slob.” He said, “I think he got away with murder.” He said he might have Pam Bondi investigate him. (Christie used to support Trump. In fact, Christie helped prep Trump for at least one of his debates. But now Christie is critical of Trump, so it is not surprising that Trump is threatening to investigate him.”

 He repeated that he’s going to decrease prescription drug prices “by 1,400 or 1,500 percent.” I’m not very good at math but, no matter how many times Trump says that, it still doesn’t make sense to me.

He said that Putin said if Trump had been President, there never would have been a war with Ukraine.

He said that he has stopped seven wars by using tariffs this year. He says that some people saw he has stopped ten wars this year. He claims the U.S. is making billions of dollars from the tariffs. He also said that “tariff” was not a word until the 1870s. One of my sources says the word dates by to before 1595.

Before the day was over, as he met with the President of South Korea in the Oval Office, he bragged about what a great relationship he has with Kim Jong Un.

He said Obama “used to talk about the O-zone layers but then he would fly to Hawaii in a 747.”

He said he has a feeling he and Hegseth will be changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. He said that will probably happen in the next week. He said “everybody wants it.” He also then insinuated that the U.S. won World War I and World War II because it was called the Department of War then.

He called John Bolton “a stupid person who liked killing people.”

He repeated, “We are the hottest country in the world. By far.” Whatever that means.

He said, “Nobody can forget October 7th, but a lot of people forget about it.” He said he thinks the war between Israel and Gaza will probably end in two or three weeks.

He said, “We will soon have more magnets than we know what to do with.”

You can’t make this stuff up. But Trump can.

Then came Tuesday…

Trump voluntarily brought up the word “dictator” twice on Tuesday. He uses the word lightly. He uses is often now. On Tuesday, he said that people are saying they don’t care if he is a dictator as long as he is stopping crime.

I don’t know who these people are who are saying that. If they exist, it is frightening that they value freedom and democracy as little as Trump does. If they want to live in an autocracy, perhaps they should live in North Korea for a while and see how they like it before advocating for a dictatorship in the United States. I heard a couple of Trump supporters on TV saying on Tuesday night that they didn’t care what it was called as long as crime was eliminated.

It is a sad thing to see people being brainwashed.

And the Love Fest at the White House on Tuesday afternoon lasted three hours and seventeen minutes. Trump said he would lose his political career if he called U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi “beautiful.” How demeaning and completely inappropriate! It was officially called a Cabinet Meeting, but it was nothing but a love fest as each Cabinet member praised Dear Leader ad nauseam.

It was the kind of thing one would expect if Kim Jong Un got all his staff around a table to prop up his ego and avoid being executed.

It was an alarming thing to see at the White House. Cabinet members’ blind loyalty is a dangerous thing. Tuesday’s meeting was alarming and indicative of the state of the U.S. Government.

Trump also took an opportunity to belittle federal employees (which includes the Secret Service agents who put their lives on the line for him) when he said that federal employees are “not very productive” and they get paid to “do nothing.” As if morale among federal employees could get any lower than it already is as he gleefully fires them without cause or thought. I hope every Secret Service Agent and every White House staff member now knows how little he thinks of them and the work they do.

On Tuesday, Trump also said that he is President of the United States and he can do anything he wants to. I think we’ve all known that since January 20th.

There is nothing normal about anything in this blog post. Absolutely nothing.

Janet

31 thoughts on “Another “Word Salad” from Trump”

  1. The work you are doing, documenting and keeping us informed is to be appreciated and praised! Thank you Janet as many of these items do not make the news here in Europe (at least not in the morning news). The things going on in the US are incredible! I think not even Federico Fellini could have created a more unusual and surrealistic character. However he is still quite dangerous for the world and especially for the people who live in the US.

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  3. In addition to having a serious personality disorder, it’s obvious he has dementia. He’s so far gone at this point, the blame for this godawful mess we’re in shifts to his enablers, including Congress.

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  5. Thank you, Francis, for your kind words. When I look back at what my blog was like just eight months ago compared to what it has turned into, I gasp. I never envisioned myself as a reporter, but it feels like that is what I have become. Many of the things I blogged about this week were not reported on the news here either. Some were barely mentioned. It is indicative of how Trump has normalized his behavior. The shock value is gone. The news networks have focused on the school shooting and the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week, leaving no air time for the dismantling of our democracy. I sat in disbelief on Monday as I watched Trump’s bizarre display of incomprehensible stream of consciousness play out on CNN, but no news network had the courage to report on how bizarre and mentally-unstable it was. Never in a sci-fi book or a satire would anyone have ever created such a character. There is something seriously wrong with him, and no one close enough to him to do anything about it is willing or capable of intervening. He is a security threat to everyone in the world, and what he has done to the CDC will definitely have worldwide ramifications. There is no one left to sound the warning for the next pandemic, and RFKjr has poisoned the minds of people regarding vaccines. Will pharmaceutical firms even attempt to develop vaccines now? Being interviewed on TV this morning about the school shooting in Minneapolis, RFKjr blamed antidepressants and not the ridiculously easy access to guns in this country. Yet, the conservative “talking heads” on TV continue to laugh and say that the American people gave Trump a mandate last November to do whatever he wants to do however he wants to do it. I don’t consider getting 51% of the popular vote a mandate, but the Republicans do — as long as they are the ones with the 51%. The Electoral College system we have has given Trump the false belief that 98% of the people voted for him. The Electoral College and voter apathy made it possible for someone like Trump to become President.

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  6. I don’t think he knows or cares what he is saying. If any other U.S. President had ever said the things Trump said on Monday, there would have been a public outcry for his impeachment and a mental evaluation. Unfortunately, it was accepted as typical Trump speech. “That’s just the way he is” is said, as if there was anything normal about what he said on Monday.

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  7. How can it be so obvious to some of us and yet something for the majority to laugh at and dismiss? How can such a blatant mental illness be ignored by the masses? The Cabinet members must be laughing all the way to the bank, along with the West Wing staff and Republicans in Congress. Not to mention the slim majority of the Supreme Court. If there isn’t a special place in hell for these people, I’m going to be sorely disappointed. And this morning, RFKjr apparently blamed the school shooting on antidepressants instead of the ridiculously easy access to guns. And the new nominee for DCD Director has no medical education. Each week gets more insane.

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  9. That is so true Janet. Voter apathy, misogyny, I believe, in the Democratic Party and the fact that Republicans think they own the country has given Trump the authority to do whatever he wants. I just cannot believe it when I hear all these things but I truly appreciate reading them. All the best to you.

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  14. Thank you Janet. And I am so happy that the weather here in the Aegean has turned quite cool and comfortable but still sunny and warm enough to enjoy the sea. We’ve all gotten quite tanned this summer! Have a smashing good weekend!

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  18. I have been, too, Liz. I knew it was going to be worse than his first term, but I really did not know he was capable of inflicting so much hurt and damage so quickly. I underestimated the level of evil in him and Stephen Miller. And I completely underestimated the ability of the U.S. Congress and U.S. Supreme Court to enable them.

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  20. Dear Leader is so obviously demented, but the lickspittle GOP will prop him up to the end–maybe even past the end, giving us a Weekend at Bernie’s administration, headed by Stephen Miller acting as puppeteer to a bloated corpse.

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  23. I learned about checks and balances in the eighth grade, the twelfth grade, AND college. Until the Supreme Court gave Trump presidential immunity, I thought this was a given.

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  25. If you read your blog alone, you wouldn’t believe it. You have to hear it for yourself. I personally don’t listen to his speech anymore because they don’t make any sense to me, and I often wonder how they make sense to his people. Then I remember the story of the emperor’s new clothes. It is amazing how those stories are timeless.

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  27. It seems every time he talks, he makes less sense — which I did not think was possible. Between the absurdity of the words and the way he never speaks in a complete sentence and the way he jumps from one topic to another that have nothing to do with each other, he keeps us confused all the time. I think most people have just stopped listening at all, but I’m afraid to stop listening. The emperor’s new clothes analogy is quite appropriate. It is all very unsettling.

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  28. I thought at this stage of life all I would have to worry about is my health and my money lasting as long as I do. I did not anticipate our government turning against us and threatening our freedom, our well-being, and our lives at every turn — day in and day out.

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