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Don Jr. Is Back at His Old ‘High’ Ways Again, This Time During a Slurring Live Interview on Fox

You'd think he could keep it together for ONE interview on a friendly station.

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Donald Trump Junior is almost as much of an attention, uh, “hog” as his dad. And that’s saying a lot, because the president-elect doesn’t seem to care what kind of press he gets, as long as a camera is pointed at him.

But it looks like Junior is headed down the same road. We already knew he was shameless from his very public cheating on his fiancée of four years, Kimberly Guilfoyle. But now that it’s official that they’re split, with his new girlfriend already angling for a spot in the Trump administration and Kim headed to Greece for her ambassadorship, the attention has died down.

Time for another slurring video of him talking about things he knows nothing about.

It’s not that all of the times we’ve seen Junior drunk, high, or something else have involved an interview or obvious speech complications, but more often than not, they have. Every once in a while, we just get a tell-tale sign, like when we spotted him doing what looked like rubbing cocaine on his gums during a SpaceX launch.

But usually it’s the way he talks.

This time he was back on Sunday Morning Futures with his favorite shrieking Fox host Maria Bartiromo, and he was once again slurring, barely able to say the name of the nation’s capital. It comes out here as “Washington, T.C.”

But it’s not just mispronunciation or slurring. It’s the fact that he says “T.C.” because he’s out of breath by the time he gets to it. He’s racing through what he says, like he’s been practicing hard in the mirror, and he can hear himself turning every S and soft-C sound into a SH sound. He knows he has to get it out quickly, before he ends up sounding like he did in this clip from Ron Filipkowski, taken from Junior’s podcast Triggered:

It’s even more painfully obvious in that one, of course. “Honomershi–” instead of homeownership? D.J., let’s get you checked in somewhere, because it’s clear you need help.

Aubrey O’Day, the former pop star and contestant on Trump’s show The Apprentice, had an affair with Junior more than a decade ago, during his marriage to Vanessa, the mother of his five kids. O’Day actually claimed on social media that the two of them had done drugs together.

It really is strange, for as notorious a teetotaler as Donald Trump is, how many people around him are drunks or addicts. Many people have compared his FBI Director nominee Kash Patel to Junior in terms of how much of a “sniffing” problem he seems to have had for a long time now. And after Trump nominated Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth to be his Defense Secretary, we found out from his former colleagues that he regularly drank on the job.

Even the guy that Trump initially picked to be his Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, who is discussed in the clip of Junior and Maria above, was found BY CONGRESS to have taken MDMA and other illicit drugs.

I don’t know if Trump finds it easier to be around people who are intoxicated, or likes to have the upper hand by not being intoxicated himself, or just likes having “dirt” on the people that surround him, in case he ever needs to extort favors from them.

But as usual, people are not impressed with Junior’s behavior.

It’s not like I don’t understand the draw of drugs and alcohol when you’re famous or under a lot of pressure. But one would think that the son of a guy who was already president once and is headed back to the office again could finally get his sh*t together.

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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