Apparently there was some sort of speech last night?
I didn’t watch it, but it must have been pretty bad. Somehow it included a screenshot from the computer game Doom:
Things got really weird during President Donald Trump’s big speech on “election security” Thursday night.
The centerpiece of the event was a document dump that was posted to the White House website, which Trump claimed to summarize during his televised primetime address. The supposed evidence contained in the reams of pdfs included a wild anecdote about the iconic 1990s computer shooter game “Doom” that underscored just how far the president was reaching as he tried to substantiate his theories.
Apparently CBS carried it live, but NBC, ABC and CNN did not (they livestreamed it on YouTube and their websites). I wonder how hard Bari Weiss had to push to make that happen. Even so, her own network has a decent (not great) fact check.
This is the Trump dilemma: he’s got a knack for getting attention, generally, but what he uses to get attention are often his narcissistic obsessions like the 2020 election. A lifetime of work ass kissing and redirecting from his staff can’t change his behavior.
Here’s the whole speech, annotated with some facts, by CNN.
In closing, he’s desperate and he’s dangerous, but he also has no juice.
