The events of yesterday were at least a month’s worth of terrible compressed into about 12 hours.
Despite a supposed cease-fire, Israel bombed the hell out of Lebanon, since Bibi Netanyahu understands that Trump is too weak to challenge Netanyahu’s desire to kill every Muslim within a couple thousand miles of Israel.
The Strait of Hormuz remained closed. Iran claims they’ve mined it (they probably haven’t). Since Iran understands that the superpower that was supposed to protect the region doesn’t have any naval assets in the area, plus the superpower’s allies aren’t rushing in to clean up the mess that their stupid leader made in his poorly-planned war.
Trump’s wife held a press event where she called for hearings and testimony from survivors of Epstein’s abuse, while disavowing a relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.
Trump published a long screed on Truth Social calling his former allies Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones “nutjobs”.
Trump published surveillance cam video from outside a convenience store showing a woman being attacked by a man with a hammer, along with a long anti-immigrant screed. [Truth Social link, you’ve been warned.]. His claim is that the attacker is a Haitian immigrant.
This list doesn’t include the VP campaigning for a right-wing dictator in Hungary, the Pentagon losing yet another case where they were trying to hand-pick a compliant press corps, and Russia re-iterating support for Cuba in face of Trump’s attempt to starve the island.
Mental health professionals use the term “decompensating” to describe a person with serious deficits who was once able to keep up a juggling act and move through life, but they can’t do it anymore because events in their life have overwhelmed their compensation mechanisms. I’d say that Melania Trump’s statement, plus the desperate lashing out on Truth Social, were symptoms of Trump Administration decompensation. There are so many plates in the air that some of them got away from the minders in the White House. Susie Wiles apparently couldn’t stop Mrs Trump from making a statement (I don’t buy that it was some 12-dimensional chess strategy to distract, something’s behind it and that will be clear soon enough). The person who would occasionally go on Truth Social and write something coherent in Trump’s name is probably tied up in a closet in Mar-a-Lago. If there were ever guardrails, they’re gone now.
But, hey, it’s another day today, and Trump has recovered from many other freak outs. The job of the Democrats is to never forget yesterday, and other days like it, and remind everyone of them as often as possible.
