Does It Seem That Day-By-Day The Donald’s Conduct Is Becoming Increasingly Bizarre?
He now argues that Biden should not be elected because Joe’s low TV Ratings would force the news media into bankruptcy.
Every time I think it’s impossible for Trump to get any crazier, he finds a new way to prove me wrong.
By David Grace (www.DavidGraceAuthor.com)
I saw the headline, “Trump Suggests A Biden Presidency Would Be ‘Ratings’ Nightmare” and my brain locked up, as if someone had shoved an Escher drawing in my face and my eyes were unable process the image.
I gave my head a little shake and read Mr. T’s tweet slowly from the beginning to the end.
On July 13, 2020, above a picture of Joe Biden, Trump had typed:
“Is this what you want for your President??? With no ratings, media will go down along with our great USA!”
What? What? What?
My mind boggled.
Is he saying that
- A key part of the job of the President of the United States is to engage in ever crazier antics in order to maintain high TV ratings?
- Joe Biden would preside over so boring a presidency that the American people would all stop turning on their TVs, thus causing the collapse of the television networks as we know them?
- We need a megalomaniac, reality-show-TV host as President who will do and say ever crazier things in order to keep the six o’clock news from being cancelled?
I began to wonder if “The Great I Am” hadn’t begun experiencing a series of ever more devastating strokes that we all have just missed up until now.
But after a little research I realized that Mr. T’s belief that his bizarro conduct was all that was keeping CBS, NBC and Facebook from bankruptcy was not a new delusion.
In fact, Trump revealed his fantasy that his remaining as President was vital to the survival of the news media back on July 11, 2019 when he tweeted:
“The Fake News is not as important, or as powerful, as Social Media. They have lost tremendous credibility since that day in November, 2016, that I came down the escalator with the person who was to become your future First Lady.
“When I ultimately leave office in six years, or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding), they will quickly go out of business for lack of credibility, or approval, from the public. That’s why they will all be endorsing me at some point, one way or the other.
“Could you imagine having Sleepy Joe Biden, or Alfred E. Newman or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas, as your President rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius!
“Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!”
We all should have known that something was seriously wrong inside Trump’s brain back on August 18, 2019 when he said that the U.S. should buy Greenland, and then angrily cancelled a state visit to Denmark because the country’s Prime Minister had immediately refused to sell, a prompt and unconditional rejection he said he found so insulting that he didn’t want to talk to her anymore.
In point of fact, we should have known even earlier that something was terribly amiss in Mr. T’s head when on January 9, 2018 he proclaimed himself a “stable genius” and then repeated the claim on July 11, 2019, adding that he was not only a “true stable genius” (as opposed, apparently, to a “fake stable genius”) but that he was also “great looking and smart.”
I guess he wanted to make sure that we all believed he was a smart stable genius rather than one of those much less desirable dumb stable geniuses.
And then to make sure we hadn’t missed the news of his massive intelligence, he repeated his “stable genius” claim again on September 14, 2019.
His supporters just laughed it off. It was just Trump being Trump. He was only joking.
Sorry, but that’s just whistling in the dark.
No halfway normal person, leastwise a halfway normal President of the United States, publicly calls himself a stable genius again and again and again if he doesn’t actually believe it, or unless he is so insecure about his mental health and his intelligence that he desperately needs to convince other people that he is not, as he secretly fears they believe, an unstable fool.
So, here’s the deal:
- The United States is not the set of a reality TV show.
- The President’s job is not to be the host of a really, really high-rated reality TV show that is all about him.
- The continued existence of the United States news media is not dependent on having a President who engages in increasingly aberrant, weird, shocking, insulting or outrageous behavior in order to generate big Nielsen ratings for the six o’clock news.
Donald Trump’s belief that it is one of the jobs of the President of the United States to garner high Nielsen ratings as the host of “Yes, Mr. President, The TV Show” is not only delusional, it’s downright terrifying.
You think I’m kidding, but really, it’s not funny.
If it doesn’t scare the crap out of you that the President of the United States and Commander In Chief of the armed forces is an unprincipled megalomaniac who thinks that one of the President’s chief functions is to generate big ratings for the six o’clock news, there’s a massive deficiency in your supply of common sense.
— David Grace (www.DavidGraceAuthor.com)
