This Is The Moment That Exposes Trump’s Unraveling: Author
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images President Donald Trump is unraveling like never before.
On The Daily Beast Podcast , Joanna Coles and Hugh Dougherty dissected the president’s week: his manic social media posts, his desperate attempt to bribe voters —whom he said should “ cheat like hell ”—to back Republicans, his aggressive behavior toward yet another female reporter, and his struggle to stay awake during a 9/11 memorial service.
“I think it’s very hard to argue that he is not unraveling,” Dougherty said.
Among the many “unhinged” social media posts, he said, was one in which Trump was depicted attacking Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with a hockey stick.
In another, he threatened to take over Iceland, while another post showed him having an Oval Office meeting with George Washington, who died 227 years ago.
Trump also posted about renaming the state of New Mexico “New America .” The flurry of posts spurred renewed calls for removing the 80-year-old president from office.
“He was obviously up late.
He was posting on Truth Social late at night.
His family was not around him, rather notably, over this Labor Day weekend,” Dougherty said.
On Thursday night, Trump accosted ABC News reporter Rachel Scott—as he has in their past encounters —when she asked about his offer of $5,000 payouts to every adult American if Republicans retain control of both the House and the Senate, which would add $1.35 trillion to the national debt.
Trump’s behavior toward Scott was “atrocious,” Dougherty said.
“Then this morning, falling asleep during the names,” he continued.
“I think it’s impossible to see that this is anything other than a revelation of character, an unraveling and opening up of Trump in a way that we have not seen before: not even during the appalling mishandling of COVID, when it was clear that his administration then was teetering on the brink.
Not even after January 6th, when people deserted him.” “This is different,” Dougherty added.
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