Trump is Showing Us All How Losers Lose

Whereas Our Next President Kamala Harris is Hitting it Out of the Park Daily

Ok. Time for a lightning round. (But before I forget, if you like what you’re reading here at “Need to Know” please subscribe and recommend it to your friends. And if you can, become a paying subscriber. It doesn’t cost much and it helps us do the work we do here and at The DSR Network, one of the biggest and best providers of high-level expert policy and politics podcasts anywhere. In fact, if you are a subscriber to the DSR Network, we give you a one-third discount to become a paying subscriber here. Anyway, it matters and we’re super grateful for any and all support you can muster.)

Now, about that lightning round:

• I got to play my favorite game watching the Trump presser today. You can call it the MAGA Challenge. Here’s how it works: Everything Trump and the other big MAGAs say is either crazy or stupid. Often its both. But, the way you play the game is by picking a statement and answering the question: Is this loonier than it is stupid or stupider than it is loony? I’m not going to spoil your fun except to say that it wasn’t that tough to play today. Dude is crazier than a bed bug.

• Seriously, if one single person cared about Trump they would have him locked in a room drinking warm milk and watching “Apprentice” re-runs. Which is not to say he is so crazy that he couldn’t have the occasional visitor. I think if you gave him a Thorazine drip, a jacket with sleeves that tie in the back and a couple strong orderlies it is possible he might not be a danger to those who come in contact with him.

• Clearly, the Harris-Walz campaign has sent him off to the howler ward of the Magaland Asylum however. He can’t stand that she has bigger crowds than he does. He even suggested that he drew bigger crowds than Martin Luther King did. He can’t stand he is being beaten like a drum by a woman of color. He can’t stand that he is going to lose and go to jail.

• That said, he also can’t formulate a sentence. His brain goes on walkabout and where he will end up never bears any relation to where he started. Or the question he was asked. Or the point he is trying ot make.

• And yet, one by one the news media summaries I saw treated his “press conference” like it was the normal behavior of a typical politician. They scoured for newsy headlines (“There’s going to be a debate!”) and ignored underlying points that were more important (“Remember the debate he walked away from? Well, now he’s going to do it. As it was. Same date. Same network. Why? Because he can’t stand not getting attention and he knows he will pay no price with the media for a complete reversal or for now being on the defensive because Harris has started to build a real lead in the polls.)