192. Trump’s Online Meltdown: Method or Madness?
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What triggered Trump's recent online posting spree?
Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Politics U.S. with me, Cathy Kay, in a beautifully sunny Washington in which anyone living here, Anthony, ought to be calm and zen and in control because the city looks so lovely at the moment and we haven't hit the horrible humidity of summer, just like President Trump is right now. Calm and zen, Anthony.
I mean, this is probably as common as Zen as he gets, like 100 tweets a night from, you know, 11 p.m. to 3 o'clock in the morning. I was sleeping then. On one Monday, and this is a few weeks back, he posted 160 times between 7 p.m. and midnight. Yeah. I don't know what we're going to talk about, but I do want to talk.
How does Trump's tweeting reflect his state of mind?
I do want to talk about that. And the fact that he's getting snubbed around by the judges and he's a big cry baby. I'm giving up on the Kennedy Center. Tell us what we're talking about, girl.
You've hit the nail on the head.
What legal setbacks is Trump currently facing?
We're going to talk about that, the crazy tweeting over the weekend, and this idea that he's getting no's from a lot of people at the moment. And as he does so, he clearly is not very happy about it, and he takes it all out on Truth Social. which does not make for a very calm and zen weekend emanating from the White House. In the second half of the show, we're going to talk about California. There's a very important primary tomorrow for both the governorship and the mayor of L.A. And how are the Democrats managing to field such an amazingly lackluster election? crop of candidates. Okay, so let's start with those truth social posts. He posted more than 50 times during the course of 14 hours on Saturday.
It's a very good breakdown if you want to read it. all the different posts. I mean, I was scrolling through them nonstop on Saturday, but it takes something and a certain amount of dedication to be student-like about this and sit down and actually make a note of all of the different posts that he put out there. And Harry Sisson, if you want to look at it, who is a liberal political commentator, has done it. I got a very nice printout. Here you go.
What does the term 'YOLO Republican' mean?
These are all the different posts. They go on for pages and pages and and pages of all the different things that Donald Trump was tweeting about. And sometimes I think, Antony, it's tempting to blow this off and think, well, this is Trump just being Trump. But we've never had in American politics or possibly in politics anywhere in the world, this direct conduit into a leader's brain and psychology and state of mind that we have when Trump puts out all of these And so I think it is super worth. You can't just say, I don't want to deal with this. This is too much. I think it is really worth all of us going through them and looking at them because they give us a sense of where he's at. And I think it's what you suggested.
Trump suffered two big legal setbacks at the end of last week. A judge said that $1.8 billion slush fund for the rioters of January the 6th and any other of your supporters that you want to give money to It doesn't fly. And another judge said, the Kennedy Center, which you have renamed the Trump, Donald J. Trump Kennedy Center, Mr. President, you have to take your name off the wall. It is not the Trump Kennedy Center.
How are California's primaries structured?
It is only the Kennedy Center. You cannot name it after yourself. And by the way, you can't shut it down for two years either. So he had a couple of massive legal setbacks at the end of last week. And I think it sent him into a tailspin. And his frame of mind was pissed off going into the weekend about this. And if you go through the tweets, it's one long list of grievance, obsession with his legacy, anger at people saying no to him, nostalgia for the 1950s, a sense of grandiosity. I mean, it's all there in these crazy truth posts.
Conspiracy theory.
conspiracy theories, and you can see. It's like he's lying on a psychologist's couch and we have access to his brain.
There's a great AI artistic rendition of Donald Trump on horseback wearing the ruffling uniform of a general from the Revolutionary War, clip cloppeting next to George Washington while there's a NASCAR running in front of them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What triggered Trump's recent online posting spree?
0:08–0:54
2
How does Trump's tweeting reflect his state of mind?
0:54–1:08
3
What legal setbacks is Trump currently facing?
1:08–2:17
4
What does the term 'YOLO Republican' mean?
2:17–3:35
5
How are California's primaries structured?
3:35–4:44
6
What challenges do Democrats face in California's elections?
4:44–5:43
7
What impact does Trump's influence have on Republican candidates?
5:43–6:31
8
What predictions are made for the upcoming California elections?
6:31–40:56
Speakers
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