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.

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 7^th, 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 20^th.

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

Janet