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8:43Now PlayingDonald Trump has always had a very weak grasp on reality, but that grasp has completely let go in recent weeks as his campaign flounders. The past week has seen Trump fantasize about President Biden re-entering the presidential race, fantasies about his crowds being bigger than those of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the insane posts about the Harris campaign using AI to make it look like people support her. These are the rantings of a madman with no grasp of reality, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
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I know I've talked about this a lot recently and buckle up because I'm gonna keep talking about it as frequently as I have to because this is a very serious issue that voters across the country need to understand. Donald Trump, the twice impeached, convicted felon Republican nominee for president this year is completely detached from reality. In the last seven days alone, seven days, Donald Trump has posted or said things multiple times that show that this man is living in a complete fantasy land. The first one, of course, was last week during his little impromptu press conference where he claimed that his crowd for January 6th was of course bigger than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's. I have a dream speech crowd, which of course is completely inaccurate. Uh, uh, King's crowd beat Trump's crowd by about 236,000 people. There's, there's photographs, like we can see which crowd is bigger. There is documented evidence of these things, and yet Donald Trump went out there without hesitation and told this lie because he believes it. Trump genuinely believes it because he has no grasp on reality. Then after that, he got on social media. It may have been before that, but either way. Uh, and he started fantasizing about, oh, I Biden's gonna come
Back. He's gonna crash the DNC convention, then he's gonna be the nominee again, and then I'm gonna run against an easy opponent. It's gonna be so great. Oh boy, I can't wait for
Biden to come back. By the time Trump had posted that, by the way, the DNC had already held their roll call vote, and Harris became the official democratic nominee, Biden can crash the convention if he wants, but he actually can't take that away because the voting already happened. She is the official nominee. Biden cannot do anything about it. But here again, is Donald Trump openly fantasizing about the reality that he wants us to have instead of the reality that we do have. And he can't tell the difference. He genuinely thinks that could be a thing that could happen because he has lived in that alternative reality for so long that he believes in his own delusions. Now, and then of course, over the weekend when he said that Harris's crowd sizes were AI generated images, completely false. We've seen the photographs. We've seen the videos. We know that Trump is lying about that.
But that was a delusion that he told everybody to make himself feel better for the fact that he is speaking to half empty auditoriums when he goes and does his rallies these days. But all of this paints the picture of a madman, a madman that is continuing to lose his grip on reality, a madman that can no longer tell the difference between fiction and reality. He has lied to himself, and he has been lied to by his advisors and handlers for so long that he can't tell the difference anymore. He doesn't know where he is in Trump's world. Up is down. Red is blue. Crowds exist where they don't exist. They don't exist where they do exist. Nothing makes it. He's living in Wonderland. This is Donald Trump in Wonderland right now. That's what's going on. There is something possibly dangerously wrong with his brain, and he is trying to get this entire country to buy into his psychotic delusions.
And as I stressed earlier this week, and I'm gonna stress it again here, the media is not doing a good enough job of talking about this. Oh, sure. They mentioned it. They've mentioned all of these things and said, wow, that's a whopper of a lie. But we can no longer look at these things as lies because they're, they're so far beyond being lies that that is no longer an accurate way to describe them. These are delusions.
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