In recent days Donald Trump has been exhibiting surging symptoms of acute paranoia, anxiety, and desperation. Two days ago he posted a near record 124 tweets in one day. They ran the gamut of his typical fetishes from ego-drenched bragging about imaginary achievements, to vicious insults aimed at his perceived enemies, to delusional assertions of non-existent crimes committed by political adversaries. If Trump were on a street corner reciting the content of his tweets he would be quickly escorted to the nearest asylum for observation.
On Tuesday morning the out of control tweetstorming continued with Trump posting another 32 twantrums, all before 10:00am. While this behavior is not unheard of for Trump, there is clearly something that has triggered this escalation of hysterics. And more than likely it has something to with his downward spiraling approval ratings and the polls that show him losing to Joe Biden nationally, as well as in most of the crucial swing states. Trump’s hijacking of the Coronavirus Task Force briefings backfired badly as his lies and belligerence turned off most Americans who were more interested in getting useful information about the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
A new poll is now affirming that what remains of Trump’s already tattered reputation has taken a series of severe blows. His overall approval is still underwater (45%) and has never exceeded 50% at any point during his accidental presidency. What’s more, a paltry 36% of the American people trust the information Trump provides about the coronavirus. That compares to 74% who trust the Centers for Disease Control, 67% who trust Dr. Anthony Fauci, and (and this has gotta sting) a majority of 55% who trust CNN, 19 points higher than those who trust Trump. That’s in line with previous polling that found the same preference for what Trump refers to is Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people.”
There is some more worrisome news for Trump in the details of this poll. The support for Trump is tightly bound into his base, which at this point is more of a cult. How else would you explain that Trump’s glassy-eyed disciples trust him more (84%) than they trust Dr. Fauci (61%)? As reported by CNN…
“Republicans are more apt to say that they trust the information they get about coronavirus from Trump (84%) than they are to say they trust the information they get from Dr. Anthony Fauci (61%), the nation’s top infectious disease expert, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (72%). Among Democrats, just 4% say they trust the information they get from the President, well behind the 81% who say they trust Fauci or the 80% who trust the CDC. Overall, CNN (55% trust) inspires far more trust than Fox News (35%), with those figures also divided by party.”
Democrats are plainly more persuaded by science than by partisan hackery and political lie factories. Can’t say the same for Republicans. And the American people have made their choice with regard to news sources. While Fox News is still higher rated, that’s only because their audience is glued to the right-wing propaganda network day and night, while the majority of the country gets their news from a variety of more credible sources, both national and local.
Trump surely has many reasons to be mired in a crushing meltdown. His polling is in the gutter. His reelection prospects are fading. The Supreme Court is hearing cases that could result in his finally having to reveal his tax returns. And he is rightfully being held accountable for the suffering and death caused by his negligent and incompetent mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. Not that he cares about that. What’s boiling his thinning blood is that, in addition to those other triggers, he knows that the American people – and the people of the world – see him as a failure and a clown who was never fit to be a leader. And that is the sort of judgment that weighs most heavily on narcissists with unchecked delusions of grandeur, like Trump.
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124 tweets in just 1 day?!? Is that a typo? (But Mark doesn’t make typos.)
124 tweets in a day hardly leaves time for much else, does it?! That is Obsessive, with capital “O”! Psych dysfunctions are not good for common folks; 10x the problem when the crazy dude is playing El Presidente! And asking for 4 more yrs of this deadly ineptitude!
Who, over age of 18, has time to send out 124 tweets in 1 day?! Who thinks their tweets are that special, to send so dang .any?!
Just Democrats
Which one?
fake website? he doesnt post 124 twets in 1 day
Apparently you can’t count. Sad.
It were 142 – I know, everything Trump is right in your brain, all the rest is fake. Also, your grey cells have been replaced by the brown mass that starts with an s….
Why do you think he would not post that many?
Sunny…He doesn’t president(verb) much. No one to talk to,, particularly no one with psych/counseling credentials. Those ppl he knows are rejected b/c he is cagey and tries not to let anyone dig too deeply into that head, which must be full of all sorts of dragon and werewolf impulses.
Tweeting over a hundred times a day lets him get his weird ideas out of his head so he has room for thoughts of fast food; ppl whom he wants to crush,; those whom he wants to play up to so he can get whatever weird thing he wants at the mo’. Examples: thin young blonde women to make him feel like a pasha;, but he doesn’t have to touch or feel to get his thrills;(remember he’s old. At his age actual clutching and handling is not what it once was . (I’m his age, so you can believe me); reporters who let him use them for his propaganda;
Everybody he’s done dirty to and might be out to “get” him. It’s got to make him feel safe with those Marines with rifles all over the place.
I could go on, but I think you get the picture I have in my own head. Isn’t it interesting to watch people do stupid stuff and think they can get away with it forever? Every time he lies down to sleep he must wonder if he’s going to wake up……….that worry is enough to make an already troubled person a bit unhinged., I do believe. Could be why he boasts of not sleeping much. We know that can make us a bit weird.
He’s a pathetic creature, and if he were called out for that, he might stroke out and do us all a favor. I don’t understand the crowd that will not mind him making a wreck of the country’s standing in the world and him hurting people, as he often does. Guess some are like the spouse who has to hide the bruises and black eyes, and go home to get more of the same after her workmates put ice on the place where she “fell down the stairs.”