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Donald Trump spent Monday morning labeling the turmoil in the global financial markets the “Kamala Crash,” giving Republicans hope that he might turn his focus to an economic message.

It didn’t last. By midday, the former president was already back to re-litigating his controversial appearance in Chicago last week, where he questioned Kamala Harris’ Black identity and suggested a major network journalist should be fired — “I didn’t know who she was, she was nasty,” he told a livestreamer.

Republicans on Monday reeled from Trump’s undisciplined approach to the opening stages of his new general election matchup with Harris — following a weekend that saw him praise Russian leader Vladimir Putin while smearing Harris as “low IQ,” and “dumb” and attacking a popular swing-state GOP governor whose turnout operation he may need in November.

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and former Trump administration appointee. “This is a guy who cut through the Republican primary like a knife through butter. This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race. And now this is a guy who cannot come to grips with a competitive presidential race that would require discipline and effective messaging. And we’re seeing a candidate and a campaign absolutely melt down.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    1634·
    4 months ago

    This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race.

    Yeah… no he didn’t. They just knew they couldn’t get enough Democrats energized to vote. And that was totally due to Biden and nothing to do with what Trump did.

    • Doom@ttrpg.network
      33·
      4 months ago

      I truly believe for anyone watching the debate that golf conversation was the end of both of their political careers.

      • acchariya@lemmy.world
        36·
        4 months ago

        The golf debate was the wtf are we even doing moment for me. It turned out to be a very powerful moment that allowed a new democratic candidate to rise above two old men blathering about their golf game.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        132·
        4 months ago

        I admit I didn’t watch it and I only scanned the coverage because I really didn’t think it was going to change people’s minds enough for Biden to drop out, although I clearly was wrong.

        So what was the golf conversation?

        • swim@slrpnk.net
          20·
          4 months ago

          Oh yeah well im bigly better at gulf than you

          What? What? Fat chance, jack

          etc.

            • Doom@ttrpg.network
              11·
              4 months ago

              Honestly watch it. The whole debate is rough and then we hit this and I could feel the souls of Americans just huff. The whole debate Trump is saying nothing nonsense with no point. Biden is half awake and limping through it. Then this insane conversation takes place

              https://youtu.be/5VyAfQBV2_c?feature=shared

              At any moment any one of them could’ve bodied the other in this conversation and probably won the presidency if you had anyone more reasonable, intelligent, lucid there that would’ve been such a moment. Instead I’m sweating from cringe. With the state of everything, why the fuck are you arguing about golf?

              • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 months ago

                Wow, I hadn’t watched any of it either but damn. Trump just being Trump by bragging about shit that only sounds impressive or meaningful to dumb people and then Biden, looking good until he opened his mouth, showed that maybe he should even resign right now because he’s not all there and barely has any energy.

                At some point, if we live long enough, there’s a sudden and drastic decline where we go from just an older version of ourselves to elderly. Looks like Biden hit that point sometime during his current term.

                I wonder if he’s the first president to do so. Reagan had Alzheimer’s, which can be worse mentally, but I don’t know if he had the physical decline also.

                That said, elderly Biden would still have been a better option than Trump. Not great (I don’t think the Democrats will ever offer an option that threatens the status quo), but better than Trump.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            31·
            4 months ago

            That’s almost as stupid as Trump and the others on stage arguing about penis size during one of the primary debates in 2016.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        8·
        4 months ago

        This so much this …trump is a felon and a threat to America but sure Joe say you’ll golf with him …ffs

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            213·
            4 months ago

            No, but his name isn’t John Barron, so it can’t be Trump.

            (How fucking weird is it that he named his son after the fake name he used to give to the press to promote himself?)

            • girlfreddyOP
              10·
              4 months ago

              Ugh. I’d forgotten all about his alter egos. My brain just cannot remember all the stupid shit he’s done.

            • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
              5·
              4 months ago

              I want him to show up to his next rally with a different kind of bronzer and a brown wig claiming to be the new nominee, John Barron, Man of the People. Preferably with a completely insane back story about how he grew up poor in the south and joined a union at 13 at a steel mill.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    74·
    4 months ago

    “This is a guy who cut through the Republican primary like a knife through butter. This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race.

    Please. R wants him as their dictator, that’s why he swept the primary, and Biden pummeled himself out of the race, Trump just had to make it through a couple hours without becoming completely unhinged, and he lied on average once per speaking minute during that time.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    65·
    4 months ago

    “Among battleground voters, we win if we have the discipline to contrast on policy and we lose if voters decide on likability. Really, really simple,” he added.

    what “policy”? take from the poor and give to the rich? whatever GOP. keep thinking you’re getting non-1% votes because of anything OTHER than hating people who are different

    • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
      44·
      4 months ago

      No… their policy is blame immigrants and convince their constituents that the whip that hits them and the boot that stomps them hurts immigrants and people of colour more than them. Meanwhile they pass bills that deregulate the capitalist class and punishes the workers.

      Edit: I am actually just elaborating your description which is more succinct

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        Edit: I am actually just elaborating your description which is more succinct

        Not to worry. I heard from El Duderino that not everyone is into the whole brevity thing 😉

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
    53·
    4 months ago

    I hear or read the things he’s said, and it absolutely blows my mind that anyone can’t understand how absolutely stupid/demented he is.

    The guy is a moron.

    • girlfreddyOP
      23·
      4 months ago

      I can handle about 10 seconds of him speaking and I start to feel my brains leaking out of my ears.

      How the fuck anyone can listen to him is beyond me.

      • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
        14·
        4 months ago

        You remember that episode of the Boondocks where Huey watches junk TV and becomes so exhausted and apathetic that he can no longer think for himself by the end of the episode? That’s why I refuse to even attempt to listen to Trump. Honestly I think that’s how people get suckered in by Trump; he wears down the mind so much that it becomes too much trouble to think.

      • CileTheSane
        4·
        4 months ago

        I think at the convention they tried covering their ears so they couldn’t hear him.

  • BillDaCatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    4 months ago

    Trump has always rambled incoherently. That isn’t new. His base loves him because he represents selfishness and racism. That is who they are. They don’t seem to care that he is a coward and a nutjob. Rich people love him because he will do just about anything for anyone who will publicly shine his shoes.

    He’s a nitwit and he always has been.