Trump has finally descended into dementia and insanity.
Seventeen days from the election, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania — arguably the most decisive swing state — Trump spent the first 10 minutes of his speech in a disconnected, rambling, collection of lies.
First, he talked about Arnold Palmer, the late golfer who was born in Latrobe and is the namesake of the airport where Trump was speaking. Trump claimed to describe how other athletes reacted to seeing Palmer in the showers.
“Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women and I love women. But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refused to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, his dick is huge,’” Trump said.
Trump’s comments about Palmer lasted roughly as long as Vice President Kamala Harris’s entire speech at a get-out-the-vote event earlier Saturday in Detroit.
Trump’s speech was filled with disconnected ramblings, abrupt changes of subject, and profane personal attacks.
Trump interrupted his own message about the border to praise Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and discuss the color of billionaire donor Elon Musk’s MAGA hat. He also gave a shout-out to legendary center fielder Willie Mays, who died in June, and railed against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). He made up a story about an imaginary cartel leader named Jose Rodriguez using an imaginary phone app to call the U.S. government about smuggling people over the border.
When he finally focused on his opponent in the presidential race, Trump turned vulgar.
“You’re a shit vice president,” he said to cheers. Some in the crowd shouted out, echoing the profanity.
Moments later, Trump asked the crowd about his plane: “How did the flyover look? Good?”
As Trump called Harris a “radical left Marxist,” a woman in the crowd yelled: “She’s a f—ing liar!”
Trump claimed he had received a letter from evangelical leader Franklin Graham encouraging him to refrain from swearing.
“You can’t put the same emphasis,” he said. “So tonight I broke my rule.”
At another point, as Trump criticized the Biden administration, he said: “Everything they touch turns to —”
“S—!” the crowd responded.
As he railed about Harris replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, Trump paused and commented on his hair, as he looked at the screen displaying his live speech. “Excuse me, I’m going to recomb my hair, do you mind?” he said. “I’m going to recomb my hair, Mr. Future Senator,” he added, a reference to U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick of Pennsylvania.
Trump’s performance at Latrobe is but another example of his descent into dementia and madness, while revealing the truth the Trump is a failure, a thug, a liar, a buffoon, and completely unqualified for public office.