Nothing so perfectly exemplifies the infantile personality as does an "incredulous" Donald Trump. The Associated Press has this latest in presidential psychological profiles:
"New surveys by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign pointed to a harrowing picture for the president as he faces reelection…. [Aides have highlighted to him] the growing political cost of the [covid] crisis and the unforced errors by Trump in his freewheeling press briefings.
"Trump reacted with defiance, incredulous that he could be losing to someone he viewed as a weak candidate. 'I am not fucking losing to Joe Biden,' he repeated in a series of heated conference calls with his top campaign officials."
Yes, Donald, you are fucking losing to Joe Biden. And you're losing, in large part, because you can't be straight with anyone — including your own campaign team.
As the Democratic primaries were just gearing up, you were filling your presidential days with sarcastic, paranoid tweets aimed exclusively at the former vice president, since you and your aides believed he would be the nominee — and knew he would be your toughest opponent. After Iowa and New Hampshire, you moved on to targeting other, temporarily ascendent candidates. But then you watched in revisited horror as Biden regained his dominance. Now you scream to your unfortunate staff that you always saw him as a "weak candidate"?
To the nation you scream even more asinine lies: that you "built the greatest economy in the history of the world," and you're "going to do it again." The quickest, simplest retort to those humdingers of mendacity are two quick, simple sentences from Market Watches' economics correspondent: "The first statement is downright false. The second is wishful thinking."
But please proceed, Donald; please continue insisting the economy is "going to build fast. I think it’ll be a tremendous, tremendous comeback." And by all means keep your nitwitted son-in-law in the national spotlight, saying the same: "I think you’ll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal, and the hope is that by July the country’s really rocking again."
There's not an economist on earth, drunk or sober, who foresees a tremendous, really rocking comeback. Going into May unemployment continues to soar, more businesses are teetering and consumers are more fearful than ever — all because of your disastrous procrastinations, wishful thinking and towering lies months ago.
That brings us back to what your campaign staff has been trying to tell you, Donald: You are fucking losing to Joe Biden because you committed the greatest, avoidable fuckup in American history — at the cost of tens of thousands of American lives. But buried in what you see as your liberating lies, you can't lie your way out of mounds of corpses.