Critics compare Trump to ‘elderly relative in cognitive decline’ after ‘delusional’ Fox News interview
President Donald Trump spent over an hour of his time talking with Fox News personality Laura Ingraham on Monday, despite America’s ongoing coronavirus crisis and economic catastrophe.
Trump said some absurd things, like warning that the press corps is “all going to die” of boredom if Joe Biden wins in November. He also spoke about what women want and why Black voters like police.
Ingraham asked Trump who he thinks it is that are pulling Joe Biden’s strings.
“People you’ve never heard of,” Trump replied, without naming names for Ingraham to familiarize herself with.
“People that are in the dark shadows,” Trump continued.
“What does that mean?” Ingraham asked. “That sounds like conspiracy theory, dark shadows.”
“No, people that you haven’t heard of,” Trump replied. “They’re people that are on the streets, they’re people that are controlling the streets.”
Trump then told an anecdote about somebody flying on a plane full of “thugs” who were wearing black uniforms.
But he refused to give any details.
Trump’s comments were widely derided:
@Acyn This may be too out there even for @sarahcpr 🤷♀️— Mimi Rocah (@Mimi Rocah) 1598928959
@Acyn He is fully hallucinating now— Baba Yaga Coming For Pooty (@Baba Yaga Coming For Pooty) 1598927211
@Acyn ok now i'm worried trump is being controlled by a plane full of people in black uniforms— Khmer Radio (@Khmer Radio) 1598927333
@Acyn She missed the follow up here; Dark Shadows the original TV show or the movie?— Joyce Alene (@Joyce Alene) 1598928183
@Acyn Paranoid delusions are a symptom of Parkinson’s disease.— Bruce Halperin (@Bruce Halperin) 1598927326
@Acyn Just imagine the depths of batshit insanity we are going to plumb in the next two+ months— Attorney@Law (@Attorney@Law) 1598928978
@Acyn It's so nice of Trump to be filming campaign ads for Biden.— Paul 👻 (@Paul 👻) 1598927593
Trump forgot to wear his tin foil hat for this interview. https://t.co/9qmWxoyg88— Ahmed Baba (@Ahmed Baba) 1598929351
Trump says "people are pulling Biden's strings." When pressed who, he says. "people that you've never heard of." Tr… https://t.co/eiFcGq5ZM7— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈) 1598929032
Nothing to see here, folks ... just the president making up wild conspiracy theories on the spot and claiming he ha… https://t.co/m2yALbxaQf— Khashoggi’s Ghost 🇺🇦🌻 (@Khashoggi’s Ghost 🇺🇦🌻) 1598928397
I've always wondered what it would be like to live in a country led by someone who was visibly insane. Turns out I… https://t.co/8glOaxXdBK— Gary Legum (@Gary Legum) 1598928053
I, for one, would prefer a president who doesn't sound like he's microdosing LSD 24/7 https://t.co/EuYgf7j4iw— Mike Gwin (@Mike Gwin) 1598928315
I can't properly preface how batshit this is. https://t.co/JvC4cJsC8w— (((Jennifer Mendelsohn)))🇺🇦 (@(((Jennifer Mendelsohn)))🇺🇦) 1598929415
Congratulations to those Americans who elected a delusional, incompetent, narcissistic fascist to the same office o… https://t.co/xplyJDrKvH— Ben Rhodes (@Ben Rhodes) 1598928524
There's been a lot of this percolating on the hard-right -- that the protests are some sort of Deep State/Soros/Glo… https://t.co/DeUsnmVk1a— Jeet Heer (@Jeet Heer) 1598929739
If your uncle started talking like this, you'd worry about his grasp on reality. The man with the nuclear codes. https://t.co/I9GYLzXcmc— Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan Nyhan) 1598928801
He's seriously just repeating absurd cartoon conspiracy shit. He's days from saying Bill Gates is trying to put chi… https://t.co/Kl8TTmbCpX— Bitcoin Magzaineᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ༝༝ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@Bitcoin Magzaineᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ༝༝ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ) 1598929544
President Trump, our national elderly-relative-in-cognitive-decline— That Tom Tomorrow guy (@That Tom Tomorrow guy) 1598929392
