As Major Defeats Pile Up, Trump Paints Himself An Alternate Reality
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Everything is going just great, Trump said Wednesday, "according to those that seem to say it."
President Donald Trump’s reality-distortion field seems to have finally ensnared the president himself.
First, a brief recap of the last few days:
Despite strenuous opposition from the president, the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation ordering the Justice Department to release all of its materials concerning Trump’s onetime friend Jeffrey Epstein.The DOJ’s case against former FBI Director James Comey ― which it pursued at Trump’s urging ― faced a major setback.Trump’s attempt to gerrymander Texas ahead of the midterms backfired.Underscoring his true feelings about the Epstein files, Trump keeps snapping at female reporters who ask for his reaction, telling one to be “quiet, piggy” and calling another “insubordinate,” spawning separate controversies.In a batch of newly released emails, Epstein himself claimed Trump “knew about the girls” and that Trump once “spent hours at my house” with one of the victims.Everyone on the internet is desperate to know who “Bubba” is.
But judging from his speech Wednesday at the U.S.– Saudi Investment Forum, THINGS COULDN’T BE GOING BETTER.
Trump opened the speech with his usual anecdotes about “how hot” America is right now compared to its performance under his predecessor. But things went sideways as he found himself in front of the highly receptive audience, sketching out an alternate reality for himself in real time.
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The illustrated image is... something.
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