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Trump’s Insane Newsmax Interview Meltdown Appears to Be Drug-Fueled

He's been off his rocker for a while, but even for him, this is bad.

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Everyone knows that Trump’s been going bonkers in anticipation of possibly going to prison.

But there are narcissists, and then there’s Trump. In a Newsmax interview on Tuesday with host Greg Kelly, Trump went completely off the rails, causing journalist Aaron Rupar to comment that Kelly “isn’t able to wrap up the interview because Trump won’t stop talking.”

National security attorney Bradley Moss wrote, “I’ve seen this before in folks who OD on Adderall.”

That tracks as a possible cause, since people have long suspected that, like his son Don Junior, the former president sure seems to be on some kind of speed-like drug.

Trump went on and on: About his sexual assault victim’s win in court against him for defamation. About Nikki Haley and her failed presidential primary bid. About the jury in his recent conviction for falsifying business records.

He even touched on sending the First Lady to jail.

“Wouldn’t it be terrible to throw the president’s wife and the former secretary of state into jail?” Trump moaned. “Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing?” Um, Donnie, nobody was talking about that — unless, of course, they get convicted of some crime like you did.

Reporter for the Washington Post Aaron Blake pointed out that when Trump whined on air that the jury in his last case didn’t flash him even a “glimmer of a smile,” it was illegal. He was SPECIFICALLY bound by the gag order in that case from talking about the jury.

Maybe he thinks he gets a breather between conviction and sentencing.

Another attorney, Don Lewis, said that Trump was hazarding another civil defamation suit from the former reporter he attacked so many years ago, saying, “E. Jean Carroll is going to sue Trump again. And get even more in damages. Book it!”

Social media tore him up as well. “He’s boasting about beating an opponent who dropped out of the race,” said Michael VanDeMar. “Dude.”

“Do people actually sit on their couches and listen to this guy rant for 30 minutes and then think to themselves ‘yes, this is the guy! He’s going to solve all the countries problems,'” said X user Crypto Journey. “If so we need a lot more mental health funding in this country.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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