Trump Salad

The transcript of the Times interview with Donald Trump was bad. You know, the one where the editor apparently gave up on trying to make sense of the words that came from the President's mouth and just printed it verbatim. Well, that was just topped by a recent one-on-one interview by AP. They, too, printed the transcript, but in sixteen places they had to write "unintelligible", because the President did not just fail to make sense, he failed to utter proper words which other humans can understand. The interview wasn't even a proper one-on-one sitting, because an unnamed aide was present, supposedly to try to keep Trump from saying too many crazy things. This didn't stop statements like this from coming out of his muddled, disorganised and quite possibly demented mind:

[Describing a meeting with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)]

“Well he said, you’ll be the greatest president in the history of, but you know what, I’ll take that also, but that you could be. But he said, will be the greatest president but I would also accept the other. In other words, if you do your job, but I accept that. Then I watched him interviewed and it was like he never even was here. It’s incredible. I watched him interviewed a week later and it’s like he was never in my office. And you can even say that.”

First, this is not what Cummings said, and he has been very clear about that since Trump quoted him wrong the first time. Therefore, this is another example of Trump repeating a lie long after it has been debunked.  Second, reading his literal words, this is a word salad bordering on being unintelligible. You can sort of make out part of what he tries to say, but the sentences are tripping over themselves, and words and entire phrases are just missing. This is not the flow of a normal conversation. It's an incoherent rant from a person who is obviously not in good mental health.

And we thought it was bad before. Does it have to get worse still before we can be rid of this president?