The Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee has some dazzling steerage for attacking Vice President Kamala Harris now that she is taken into account the front-runner to face convicted felon Donald Trump this November. In response to a memo obtained by Axios, the vp ought to be described as a “radical” progressive and an architect of the border disaster. And he or she’s “weird.”
The memo additionally features a “weird” class—mocking Harris’s “habit of laughing at inappropriate moments,” her self-proclaimed love of Venn diagrams and her name to ban plastic straws, amongst different issues.
Trump’s coverage file is rubbish, his immigration file is one in every of human rights violations, and his tendency to be “weird” is off the charts. Listed below are 19 instances Trump was … bizarre.
1. Praising “the late, great, Hannibal Lecter.”
Trump has repeatedly conjured up fictional serial assassin and cannibal Hannibal Lecter throughout rally speeches—he even did so in his acceptance speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference. Famously performed by Anthony Hopkins within the movie “The Silence of the Lambs,” it’s arduous to parse precisely what Trump is getting at when he praises the psychopathic character.
2. His unusual preoccupation with the “genius” of realizing that the phrase “us” seems within the acronym “U.S.A.”
“You know, you spell us right? You spell us U-S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that? A couple of days [ago] I’m reading and it said us. And I said, you know, if you think about it, us equals U-S.”
Trump’s first overseas tour as president started within the Center East the place he met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, and the 2 males did this:
4. When Trump sorta curtsy-bowed earlier than the Saudi King?
After he had attacked President Barack Obama for leaning over to obtain an identical Saudi welcome, Trump did this?
Trump was delivering remarks to the press on vaping, when he referred to Barron Trump—who’s his third son—as “Melania’s son.” What’s that about?
6. Humping the American Flag on varied levels throughout the nation.
Why does he try this a lot?
7. Saluting a North Korean common.
Everyone knows that Trump loves him some dictators, nevertheless it was unusual when he determined to offer a army salute to an adversarial nation’s common. The strangeness passed off throughout a summit between North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and Trump when the salutation occurred.
8. Electrical boat versus battery versus shark?
Do you keep in mind the place you have been when Trump supplied up a thought experiment about whether or not you would like to be electrocuted in water or eaten by a shark? And that tangent was in response to Trump explaining the issues with electrical autos?
So I mentioned, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or right here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I keep on high of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I bounce over by the shark and never get electrocuted? As a result of I’ll inform you, he didn’t know the reply. He mentioned, ‘You know, nobody’s ever requested me that query.” I mentioned, ‘I think it’s a very good query.’ I believe there’s lots of electrical present coming by way of that water. However you recognize what I’d do if there was a shark otherwise you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution each single time. I’m not getting close to the shark. So we’re going to finish that.
9. Trump’s bathroom declare: People have to flush “10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.”
That was Trump rambling about bogs, sinks, and showers. “You turn on the faucet and you don’t get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out. Just dripping out, very quietly dripping out,” was simply one of many many odd information Trump gave out throughout his assaults on water-saving laws. The ranting went on properly previous the White Home, as Trump took his mystifying takes on the highway to rallies—all through his second impeachment.
10. Doctoring a climate map with a black Sharpie.
Trump’s weird try and frighten Alabama residents by crudely doctoring a map, forecasting the trail of a hurricane, will at all times go down as each ridiculous and insidious.
11. Making Clorox nice once more.
It was April 2020, and whereas COVID-19 was ravaging international locations all over the world, Trump took to the world stage to counsel to the press, and his personal officers, that disinfectant is likely to be injected into the human physique to kill the virus.
So supposing we hit the physique with an incredible, whether or not it’s ultraviolet or simply very highly effective gentle. And I believe you mentioned that hasn’t been checked however you’re going to check it. After which I mentioned supposing you introduced the sunshine contained in the physique, which you are able to do both by way of the pores and skin or in another method. And I believe you mentioned you’re going to check that, too. Sounds attention-grabbing. Proper? After which I see the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a method we will do one thing like that, by injection inside or nearly a cleansing? Since you see it will get within the lungs and it does an incredible quantity on the lungs, so it could be attention-grabbing to test that. So that you’re going to have to make use of medical medical doctors, proper? However it sounds attention-grabbing to me. So we’ll see, however the entire idea of the sunshine, the best way it kills it in a single minute. That’s fairly highly effective.
12. How do magnets work?
It’s arduous to compete with this Trump assertion from January: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”
13. Does Trump not know who Frederick Douglass was, or did he simply discover out?
“I am very proud now that we have a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Reverend King, so many other things,” Trump mentioned. “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
14. The time when the Continental Military took over the airports.
Trump blamed his teleprompter, however his retelling of the American Revolution, together with the heroic takeover of airports over 100 years earlier than the airplane was invented, was very peculiar.
“Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
15. Trump hates windmills and thinks televisions flip off if there isn’t sufficient wind.
Trump has incessantly railed towards windmills however he’s additionally proven a curious understanding of how renewable power capabilities in the true world. Right here he’s in 2019, explaining a theoretical dialog a pair has after putting in windmills.
“Let’s put up some windmills. When the wind doesn’t blow, just turn off the television darling, please. There’s no wind, please turn off the television quickly.”
16. When Trump shoved a world chief out of the best way in an effort to be in entrance for a photograph.
Who does that????
17. When Trump requested a 7-year-old if he nonetheless believed in Santa.
Actual Struggle on Christmas vibes right here.
18. Trump appears to consider we’ve invisible planes.
Trump’s feedback in 2017, coupled with feedback he’s made since, certain implies he’s below the impression that we’ve Surprise Girl expertise.
“With the Air Force, we’re ordering a lot of planes, in particular the F-35 fighter jet, which is, you know, almost like an invisible fighter,” he mentioned. “I was asking the Air Force guys, I said, ‘How good is this plane?’ They said, ‘Well, sir, you can’t see it.’ I said, yeah, but in a fight —you know, a fight, like I watch in the movies —they fight, they’re fighting. How good is this? They say, ‘Well, it wins every time because the enemy cannot see it. Even if it’s right next to it, it can’t see it.’ I said, ‘That helps. That’s a good thing.'”
19. Robert E. Lee was a pirate shanty singer?
Lastly, who might neglect Trump’s try to offer his personal wow-filled Gettysburg Deal with in April. That’s when he recounted American historical past like … this:
There’s an infinite quantity of examples detailing the strangeness of Trump. The GOP going after Harris for laughing seems like a determined recipe for failure. Right here’s a bonus reminiscence for the QAnon traveler who occurs upon this text, as a result of Trump hangs with solely the most effective folks:
Pitch in what you possibly can to assist Kamala Harris win the White Home this November.
