Trump Is Becoming Increasingly Detached From Reality
Donald Trump has long been known for creating his own version of reality, often distorting facts to serve his personal and political agendas. This pattern has been a hallmark of his public life.
Recently, however, Trump’s assertions have become even more extraordinary and unbelievable. This shift seems to align with Vice President Kamala Harris’ rising popularity in the polls and a surge of enthusiasm among Democrats reminiscent of the early Barack Obama era.
Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump claimed that a crowd of 15,000 people gathered to see Vice President Kamala Harris and her new vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, at a Detroit airport hangar last week simply “DIDN’T EXIST.”
“Nobody was there,” Trump stated on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday, accusing the Harris campaign of using artificial intelligence to fabricate the images.
However, numerous images and videos posted online by attendees confirmed that there was indeed a significant turnout of Harris supporters at the Michigan rally, indicating that Trump’s claim was, once again, a falsehood.
Harris also attracted large crowds at rallies in other key battleground states, including Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada. These robust turnouts highlight the former president’s political challenges just 90 days before the November presidential election.
The GOP nominee, a convicted felon, doesn’t have to worry about just winning; he also has to worry about potentially going to jail if he doesn’t become president again.
Last week, Trump claimed falsely at a press conference that his crowd at the White House on Jan. 6, 202, rivaled that of Martin Luther King Jr. for his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech on the National Mall, which vastly outnumbered Trump’s pre-insurrection rally with about 260,000 people.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) advised former President Donald Trump to stop fixating on crowd sizes and focus on the key issues.
“You’ve got to make this race about policies, not personalities,” McCarthy emphasized. “Stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her record. What did she accomplish as California’s attorney general on crime? What actions did she take as the border czar?”
Trump has struggled to stay aligned with GOP talking points despite repeated requests from party members. Instead, he has been more concerned with criticizing President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the race after Democrats pushed for a younger candidate. Trump has delved into conspiracy theories about Biden’s departure.
“This was a coup. This was a coup against a sitting president. He didn’t want to leave,” Trump told billionaire Elon Musk on Monday. “They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him.”
During his press conference last week, Trump made an unfounded claim that Harris “was working with the people that wanted [Biden] out.”
In a display of frustration and perhaps desperation over facing Harris in the upcoming election, Trump speculated about Biden trying to reclaim the presidential nomination during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week.
“What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden … CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. “He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!”
However, the possibility of such an event is non-existent. Harris has secured the nomination with the support of 99% of Democratic delegates. Biden endorsed her last month and is expected to deliver a speech on the opening day of the convention.
Even when Trump focuses on Harris, he often stirs controversy with remarks about her race and gender, causing discomfort among Republican officials. He incorrectly asserted that Harris only recently identified as Black and has allegedly referred to her with derogatory terms in private, though his campaign denies these claims.
For weeks, Republicans have been urging Trump to concentrate on criticizing Harris’s policies, with mixed success.
“This is the perfect opponent to run against,” McCarthy told Fox on Monday. “If you thought John Kerry was a flip-flopper, she takes it to another level with her extreme positions, and there’s limited time to expose that.”
“So don’t hold back. Get out there and make your case using her own words against her,” he advised.