So, I have noted some things that I think are truly disturbing about Trump of late because of the profoundly serious implications of his rhetoric.
And then there is just the plain off-the-wall stuff.
Via The Hill: Trump tells child there will be no cows nor windows in buildings under Harris.
“I’ll tell you what I love, I love cows, but if we go with Kamala, you won’t have any cows anymore,” the former president responded to the child’s question. “I don’t want to ruin this kid’s day.”
He then called Harris a “radical left lunatic.”
This is not the first time the Republican nominee made this claim about cows. Trump made similar remarks at a North Carolina campaign eventin July and during a Nevada rally with Hispanic voters this past Saturday. While speaking to voters, Trump said Democrats wanted to remove windows from buildings and get rid of cows.
“They just come up, they want to do things like no more cows and no windows in buildings. They have some wonderful plans for this country, honestly they’re crazy,” he stated.
In North Carolina, he added that Harris would “outlaw red meat.”
Setting aside a Civics 101 lesson about why this would all be impossible for a president to do, this is just profoundly, well, weird. It is also simply dishonest. These are claims from the Land of Fabulism and are not the kinds of things serious people who want massive power ought to be saying.
It should be disturbing to hear. It should cause people to question voting for him.
The options as to what is going on here are limited, and none of them are good.
- He is simply a liar and knows full well all of this ridiculous bunk (but he hopes he is reaching people who want to believe it).
- He believes what he is saying, suggesting either mental impairment, stupidity, or significant disconnection from reality (all of which are not multiply exclusive categories, I will allow).
I realize that this is just a sampling of a larger canvas (e.g., windmills, Hannibal Lecter, sharks and electric boats to name a few of his recent greatest hits).
