Donald Trump on Wednesday night falsely smeared Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a “proud member of Hamas.”
The Republican presidential nominee made the insulting remark about the top-ranking U.S. Jewish official at a rally in Pennsylvania. It came on the same day that Trump separately sparked an angry backlash for questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
There’s a bit of a feeling of old people using the new slang they just learned with the “weird” campaign, but then you step back and like, it’s a really apt description. MAGA culture IS extremely weird, even if you can ignore its terrible politics, and if Donald Trump was a coworker, “weird” would definitely be a common description of his rambling stories and obvious lies. It’s well beyond just “that guy lies about stuff” and into “somethings wrong with him, why does he think anyone would possibly believe those claims?”.
I used to know a guy who had a problem with pathological lying. As in, I’m pretty sure he had a legit diagnosis.
He was weird. And I haven’t thought about him in at least ten years, but thinking back, his particular weirdness reminds me of no one so much as Donald Trump.