He probably knows it's untrue but he doesn't care because it works for him. That's way worse than stupidity.
He probably knows it's untrue but he doesn't care because it works for him. That's way worse than stupidity.
Agree. A very cynical ploy to the base.
#EpsteinFiles
Notice how he LOVES talking about death and rape and murders? He's jacking off to it, to the extent his fecal filth covered mushroom is able.
He is so damn dumb.
No. That's too funny if he genuinely believes that.
24/7 gaslighting 😞
Trump can’t process the word asylum. @governor.ca.gov @aoc.bsky.social @chriscillizza.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social
OMG- Homan and Bondi will do what they are doing to Garcia. They will accuse hardworking people of being insane. WOW, if this doesn't make people protest in mass numbers, I give up and will move out of this country. I refuse to pay any tax to this POS to support this corrupt administration.
He is a lying POS. Who is "They"? They are going to steal the funding and continue to push the lie of 25 million insane people coming here.
a successful storytelling is to become the same level of intelligence, vocabulary, and way of thinking as listeners. for the conman it's by the book.
I wonder where he pulls these numbers from
All these terrible people in our country and he's deporting gardeners, farm workers, construction workers, hotel workers, children with cancer, mothers who have been here 50 years, Afghans who assisted our military; detaining disabled vets and American citizens.
💔💔😡😡
Ice only goes after low hanging fruit; the ACTUAL criminals would blow ICES face off so the wanna be nazis don't go NEAR THEM. Nannys in parks,very safe fruit.
The stupid it hurts. Question: who is more stupid, Trump or his followers? I can't decide.
Where do you think Trump came from?
He's wrong of course, but one thing he does well is to repeat the same thing over and over. Some people believe it
He’s always been dumber than you could possibly imagine but he just seems completely befuddled nowadays.
This is a really important distinction. You can be dumb and think clearly. You can be a genius and befuddled. Being dumb AND befuddled is not a good combination, especially for the POTUS.
Imagine if he had one person in his orbit that could call him a moron and tell him to pull his head out of his ass.
Many have tried, none have succeeded.
No, but his dumbass voters do!
lol 😂! 👏👏👊😎
Republicans have taken control of over 25 of the states and then gerrymandered themselves in power. This is why the congress and house are always Republican. As for the presidency, Dems and elderly voters get purged while enlisted soldiers can't mail in their ballot. Search suppression to see all.
I’m well aware.
Speaks to his own fear of ending up in one is my theory.
I didn’t think he could be more stupid. (Yes, I did.)
Speaking of asylum... Trump needs one. And a liddle white jacket that ties in the back.
He doesn't "think" they do, he knows it and no one can change his mind.
Because he's a fukin imbecile....
He knows better. He's just pandering to the MAGA crowd because he knows that they don't.
You have evidence for that? I've never seen any hint he knows what the fuck he's talking about.
No evidence. But I've always felt that he can't possibly be as stupid as he sounds but as lucky as he is, all at the same time. It just doesn't compute for me.
Inherited wealth means he is way luckier than the average person. Rich people can do anything and there will always be sycophants around to enable them.
There are others that inherited wealth far greater than his that do not have a whole political party and a third of the country willing to do their bidding. His luck is something altogether different.
Pathological liar.
He deserves a Noble Plus Gold Edition doesn't he
Is this how we got you and your family?
Why not simply ask who “they” are? Also who is organising this mass invasion and specifically which 19th century asylums were emptied to wreak havoc on the Utopia they call the USA. Or maybe just challenge him to give a straight answer.
Dumber than a box of hammers.
When this Orange fucker transitions, America will have the biggest party.
He is 100% embarrassment
That’s putting it mildly
Just read a NYT article that said his meeting, performance, whatever the hell it was, was rollicking.🤢🤮
😱
You of all people should know not to take Trump at face value. He's just adding fuel to the fire.
Perhaps Trump has the word ’asylum’ on his mind for other reasons he finds worrying?
OMFGs he's even dumber than previously thought
Projection
Where tRump should be
Maybe he believes it. But he knows for certain that Republican voters are stupid enough to believe it, and that's what counts.
He puts the 'mor' in moron.
Because he's an idiot.
“They released their insane asylum population into our country” says the man who took down Hillary’s FLOTUS portrait and replaced it with his mugshot. His dumb ass thought it was a good idea to hang his in a room with former FLOTUS portraits. Looks like an insane asylum is missing this one.
Yeah, this one always gives me a giggle. His oranges can't tell the difference between seeking asylum and an insane asylum.
In t-rumps united states we let the criminals, and the insane run for office.
I love your reporting and what you do but please refrain from ever using "Traitor thinks". That is verifiably wrong, at this point, it is no longer possible, he lives in an alternate reality. Too many examples....
And yet the mainstream media shit the bed because Biden wore sneakers that one time.
Don’t ever forget Obama’s tan suit!
Can't have that!
They are complicit.
Trump is our national village idiot. (I mean this in the best sense of the term idiot)
It's so hard to find a word for his lack of intelligence and his obvious mental conditions without being ableist! Like, there are tons of "crazy" people who rock! And people who once would have been diagnosed as "idiots" are really awesome! And Trump sucks so much! He's a crazy idiot in a bad way.
It's purposeful with him.
Under normal circumstances, I’d think this is too stupid to be possible. But after the Abrego Garcia photoshop tattoo demonstration of idiocy, everything is on the table with this fool.
He needs to be in an asylum - along with all his fealty cowardly freaks
Trump thinks insane asylums are a thing in countries that can’t even care for their healthy people.
He belongs in an insane asylum
He’s the stone cold hard criminal. So many criminal acts committed by him throughout his lifetime.
I would bet real money that Steven Miller takes advantage of his stupidity. "Mr. President, we cannot allow these criminally insane people to run loose in our country! We must send them back to the CECOT insane asylum where they belong!" Would explain the renditions of innocent men seeking asylum.
Dumbest man to ever walk into the white house, much less live there.
That’s very unfair. Remember Eric has visited the White House.
I nominate him for an insane asylum.
On a certain level you can understand the Toddler in Chief thinking you'd have to be insane to come to the US when he's the president...
Not one of these numbers are verifiable. Biden’s numbers were higher mainly because Trump so woefully managed COVID. Just like most things, after the vaccines were released, everything reset.
Trump is a genius for fascism and crime. In everything else, he’s as dumb as a brick
Ummm…think continuing to say that is for his cult. By now, he must know but likes the attention it brings
Did anybody tell him he's been POTUS for the last 6 months?
This criminal is a full fledged psycho !
Sorry, you lost me at “Trump still thinks…”
The "late, great Hannibal Lecter" -
What does that guy do for a living?
it's consistent with his cognitive capabilities.
Moron
I’m not even trying to be mean. It’s just facts, he’s a complete moron. And it’s disturbing that he’s the “leader of the free world.”
We are no longer leaders in anything. The fascist Republicans have made sure of that since the 1970s.
Insane asylum, where Trump belongs
I couldn't do that to another patient just put him on Alcatraz. Alone.
Exactly!
"We voted!"
He knows exactly what he is saying is BS … but he also knows his Maga follows are morons and will believe anything he says . It’s just sound bites - like the work communist when talking about liberals .
Can we have him committed?
How many times do you think people have tried to teach him otherwise? 50? 100? But Biden forgot a name, and spoke softly. I know, the horror --
😂😂😂 does he believe that the Mexican government is emptying hospitals/prisons and what bussing them to the borders ??
I...I just... Like...this should fucking matter. Seriously. It's not the most important thing or anything but Donald Trump being the stupidest motherfucker on the planet should FUCKING MEAN SOMETHING. Goddamnit. I'm so fucking flabbergasted at reality. Or with reality. Whatever. What the fuck.
Stupidity is a greater threat to humanity than evil.
…I think I ultimately disagree but it’s definitely not a *hard* disagree.
77,000,000 people cast their vote for one inmate from the insane asylum population.
I don't believe he thinks that. I think he thinks his followers will believe that. Or maybe even not that: he does it to create outrage. He doesn't say what he thinks, he says things for the effect they have on people. Language for him is not for communication, but for manupilation.
Derp
That would be Ronald Reagan.
That never occurred to me but by god, I bet it’s exactly right. It’s just the level of stupidity that fits him to a T.
It’s a literal example of how gullible Trump has become in the presence of Stephen Miller.
He is proof that at least one come from an mental institution
Just once could a reporter please tell him the difference when he spews his crap!
He's a complete dork.
Does he still think that immigration visas are debit cards, too?
Boy, that is a particular level of stupid.
Trump's hands must really smell from pulling all of those numbers out of his ass.
The question must now be asked. Is Trump more of a sociopathic narcissist or just a run of the mill idiot?
D. All of the above
He's a fucking narcissistic psychopath.
Both.
All of the above but add “with dementia!”
Yes
I think FOTUS is stuck on the facts of the Mariel boat lift. Castro, being a jack@ss, released people from prison and "insane" asylums to immigrate to the US. However, those in prison or "insane" asylums were political dissidents Castro wanted to be rid of. Or, FOTUS could just be that stupid.
Applying Ockham‘s razor, I‘d bet on the second.
He doesn’t believe it but he wants us to believe if it sounds too stupid it probably is….DUH
He belongs in an insane asylum. He could give speeches all day and pretend everyone loved him.
Well he preaches to his MAGA cult and the right wing bigot brigade so that's kinda the same thing. Just without the padded walls and the security.
O. M. G. !!
Could someone please take the nuke codes away from this eejit.
Criminals and those who should be in an asylum. More projection?
Why is he speaking. He has nothing worthwhile to contribute
That is an important observation, that Trump’s thinking is concrete rather than abstract. The transition from concrete (literal) thinking to abstract reasoning usually occurs in late middle childhood and early adolescence.
His flawed personality was evident in his childhood. Sociopath dad Fred found them to his liking & encouraged them. He has never had any form of intellectual curiosity. Read any of psychologist niece Mary Trump or Bandy X Lee, MD MDiv Forensic Psychiatrist books for insights on his psychopathy.
"He has never had any form of intellectual curiosity" THIS is the entirety of what he has in common with his cult members.
Right. They are stuck in a mindset and don't seem to what to know or learn anything different or new. It astounds me how anyone would choose to go through life like that.
Everyone has a story. I learned early that trying to understand other's experiences was a good thing. Also after learning good work skills in my chosen career knowing a little about other different disciplines in the sciences & business etc helped me to cope. Knowledge replaces fear.
I've always been obnoxiously curious. 😆 I have a t-shirt that says Understand More Fear Less
I think along the same lines. I learned all sort of construction trades. Design all the structural changes for expanding my small house. Did all but the heaviest work myself. Always associate with people who knew more than me. I am 79 now but still read on lots of different subjects. Never stop!
I don't think I'd even know how to stop. My brain is exhaustingly hungry. :-)
Once not too long ago I asked my dad if he's ever thought about what it's like to be a woman and the scoffing I got from him...like, it was clear he thought it was ridiculous to consider considering the life experiences of a woman. Just completely void of curiosity.
That isn't so much a lack of curiosity as it is maintaining the patriarchy. Patriarchy has been cracked and crumbling for at least since the 19th century, I'm sure that queens had enacted many social reforms earlier, too, not to mention knocking down stereotypes.
I once knew somebody with the same power that Trumpty Dumpty has, but he never used it. Oh, he used it in small ways, but I would say that he should be a politician or a preacher, and he would either laugh it off or scoff at the idea. I guess he lacked the sociopathy.
You know, if his head was full of concrete, that would explain a LOT! 😁
He knows but he uses the misunderstanding to his advantage
Exactly. Same strategy that was used to damage the meaning of “entitlements”
It's like they're trying to drive us all crazy!
Blathering idiot on steroids
Why can’t reporters confirm or deny this? Are there insane asylums in these countries? Did they empty them? Enough of his propaganda!!
Color me shocked. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-still-...
And no one will tell him differently
How does he still believe that? The mind boggles, sly enough to get elected president twice but dumb enough to not understand words or reality. How do his supporters think he's smart? It's 8am here, but it must be happy hour somewhere...
Hostile intelligence services love idiots like him.
The stupidity is breathtaking and the fact that NO f’ing journalists push back on this horseshit is infuriating. Here’s the question, MSM: “Do you know what political asylum means?”
Or alternatively: "What evidence do you have to back your claims that the previous administration(s) did not vet people they admitted into the country?"
💯‼️
I have another question that they could ask Other than immunity from prosecution what was it that made you want to become the leader of a nation with 73 million children?
Exceptional question!
It’s infuriating!!! Do your jobs, journalists!! Are you afraid the orange menace will be mean to you!?? Get the facts. Be brave. Truth to power!
Right?? I want to jump through the TV and SCREAM at them 🤬 He's so fucking stupid and VICIOUSLY CRUEL.
Yes!!! WHY don't ANY of them ask this???
Upset the wrong person in the current Regime and be fired as a sacrificial apology by your employer?
Ok? Then get fired. You can’t really believe that being fired is the worst that could happen in 2025? If that’s the case, you never should have become a journalist in the first place. It used to mean something. You should’ve applied to be the White House Coward instead.
I am not a journalist. Nonetheless the loss of income, and quite possibly career, is a powerful incentive to many. Especially those with financial commitments and families to support. Also, much main stream media has at least a softly softly policy towards the Regime.
This creates a lot of pressure in the workplace via policies and implicit instructions. Also media organisations are only likely to send personnel who will not upset the Regime. You are right, but these matters are complex and there are many human factors involved.
Because they are weak-willed cowards who don’t want the felon to say mean things about them. Many people are saying this.
Ask a question like that, get called "horrible" by the president, lose access to anyone for any interview, career over. So they don't ask. Profiles in courage, the lot of them.
Then they should have never become journalists. It used to mean something. It used to mean they got to ask the hrs questions and it didn’t matter if it upset the person being interviewed. THATS what a free press really means
I blame them for this shit 100%. They would not just leave him alone. Couldnt just maybe I don’t know, stop talking about him and only him. If they had just let him go live his miserable life after he lost, he would have never ran again. But they kept him relevant.
Plenty ask but those people aren't given access to him. Access is contingent on this kind of pandering. Until Congress fixes that, we can stop pretending those people are journalists or that the gov't speaks to the press.
We don’t know the setting, may have said no press. But we can be sure it will be one of the first questions posed the next time he allows press access.
We can be sure it will NOT be one of the first, or last, questions he’s asked. He’s been saying this shit for years and no one has pushed back on it, pressed him on it, told him political asylum is different from “insane asylum”. Just more f’ing sane-washing from the press every day for a decade. 🤬
Too busy making their protection racket payments!
'It's where they keep the lunatic leftist fringe right?' 🤔🥺 /sarcasm
And no one corrects him. It’s enraging
Yes they do. He either fires them or ignores them.
That is an extremely rare occurrence.
No, check out the record of firings. Why, I can recall January 6th when the Vice President didn't do what he was told to do and Trumpty Dumpty was going to fire him on that day.
Yes, I’m saying he is almost never called out ever. Because we have journalists too afraid to ask the hard questions. Might as well be fired if you can’t or won’t ask the questions.
🙄🤬
Pretty sure he doesn't, but know that those listening him say this repeatedly are more apt to believe it...
He has absolutely has no idea what he’s talking about, the fucker’s dementia is so bad, he just says stupid lies and repeats himself like a senile old man
I remember we offered asylum to Cubans in the 80s and Castro actually did send people from asylums and jails. I think he, like any dementia patient, is focused on things from way in the past.
Because you made it up?
Need I say it? The only one who escaped from an insane asylum is Trump himself
I don’t think he believes this. I believe it’s another one of his fairy tales that he is feeding his base. He honestly thinks people are stupid which he has a good point when it’s his base. They are stupid enough believe ANYTHING he says.
He should be out in Farmer's fields talking to their crops... if he's going to spread that much bullshit.
Stephen Miller won't tell him.
Dangerous idiot.
Very stable genius
What an addle-minded buffoon.
Stupid is as stupid does.
He’s such a dope.
He just said that “there are many people walking around that we don’t know anything about, that came from their insane asylums”. So, if you don’t know anything about them, how do you know that they came from an insane asylum in another country? They didn’t bring their medical records with them.
Holy shit! I never put these two things together. I always wondered why he kept saying that countries were sending people from their insane asylums. Now it makes perfect sense!
Yeah it was called England and it happened like 400 years ago
It’s part of the act.
I know one person who should be in an asylum.
He doesn’t care at all about the rule of law and if it was respected: only the King can decide what’s right and what’s wrong. #NoKing Don’t abide
I'll bet Stephen Miller reinforces Trumps' delusion.
He is insane. Why wasn't he put in asylum in the 1970s?
His father was too cheap to pay.
He’s such a moron!
ICE are looking for these people, they have escaped
Can a reporter try explaining it to him really slowly so he can loose his mind with indignation like an elderly at a family dinner. I know it wouldn’t do any good I just wanna edge him closer to an aneurism and spare any potential assassins the trouble.
Doesn’t have to be explained slowly actually. need a journo who willing to tell the truth. Taco will get mad and insult. Journo stays on point. Far worse that a POTUS doesn’t understand what asylum means, than a journo gets on his bad side. Need way more okay with being on his bad side. #goodplace
I may be wrong, but I think at least one reporter already did that during an interview. At this point, it's more likely he's keeping it up to make the base auto-associate the term "immigrants" with violently insane Batman villains.
God how long did this “meeting” last today?
It worked on the rubes last year during the campaign - why mess with success?
Can someone, anyone point out what that actually means to him, ON camera, so the rest of us can witness his brain shorting out while he processes it?
I'm still trying to process the garbled words coming out of his mouth...maybe I'm cringing too hard
I can’t listen to him either
🎵🎶 Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb 🎵🎶
@stephencolbert.bsky.social this is prime material.
He will be collapsing soon and someone in his politburo will play the role of Judas to initiate the inner circle revolt (research Benito Mussolini) …
And not one individual from the media ever asked Trump about his definition of asylum seekers.
In his limited mind, an asylum seeker wants to be put into an insane asylum which raises the cost of healthcare?
"Old Stinky Butt" just makes up phony numbers as he rambles incoherently along! What little brain Trump had to begin with has been rotted out by old age and dementia. The thought of this lunatic still carrying around nuclear codes should scare the shit out of you! It sure does me!
I feel certain that after the G7 when he was bragging that a leader told him America is so “hot” now (during an intense heat wave) that he conflated it with flattery that America’s “so hot now” (the “it” place) because of him - his brain lives in the 90’s and he’s the center of all of his thoughts.
lock HIM up.....
One big beautiful padded white room is awaiting this insane pantshitter
TRump has NEVER had a single cogent thought. Why should he start now?
He decided upon that interpretation when he first heard about it and he's never wrong.
I can only laugh hysterically, because I’ve already cried too much over the level of stupidity that rules our country right now.
Not only that, but Asylum Records will release a new Eagles hits collection into our country.
Such an ignoramus.
The irony is that MAGA is full of insane people.
That’s bc imho he is mentally incapacitated to th point of being dangerously stupid..
Your statement is completely wrong. trump doesn't think.
How did this idiot get elected...twice?
grampa's vocabulary was never big and shrinking
My god...
Again, he's pushing what he knows is rubbish out to the base...it is a clownshow, but he doesn't care.
Well he thinks they see an impotent, demented wankspanner, who should be in an a rubber room in a mental hospital jail as President, they must think ‘Wow! You can totally be a rancid mentalist fuckstick pissdongle in America and still be rich. We must go right now!’
He is demented.
He's the escapee. Frickn lunatic. Dumber than a box of nails.
And no one in his circle is ever brave enough to try and correct him.
His age and brain dysfunction is evident here.
That’s where the rapist should be! 🤪
Are his people afraid to correct him? Do they just not care enough to correct him because he’s going to say whatever the f he wants anyway? Or do they correct him and he just ignores them or forgets?
All this debate avout whether he's really that dumb. Fact is he's sitting in the oval office and is getting very little resistance from any institution. Who needs smart when everyone else is so weak.
I cannot even argue this point with you. The accuracy is so on point!
Speaking of INSANE ASYLUMS
Everybody knows, the "murderers" from "the mental institutions" are sitting in front of the camera, right there.
No critical thinking here. HOW are they doing that? How’s does that even work, do you need some kind of bus..?
Stupid, or perhaps confused? It was actually Republican icon Ronald Reagan that did this, but with Americans in need. This is a good opportunity to understand the origin of the homeless crisis in the United States, and the hardening of the GOP’s heart that Trump has turbocharged.
Instead of regulating the institutions so they were not abusive...sigh
Actually, most were built to be beyond usefulness by the seventies, when electrical and heating costs skyrocketed. He should have created a program to allow all of the institutions to be rebuilt with energy saving equipment, insulation, and, of course, state of the art technologies.
11,888 🥴
Hahahahahahahaha
Probably as close to 11,780 as person-woman-man-camera-TV could remember with his alzheimer.
This sounds close to the number of vote he wanted Georgia election official to “find” for him in 2020
Glad I’m not the only one who caught that and knew he made that up on the spot.
So did we, in the 1980’s. Some of those are still alive and on Medicaid. This is why we are the party of caring, not bullying and terrorizing.
The electorate released their insane into our government.
It really is? What was in their water?
There's more than 18
Yep, a shitload.
More like a... chuteload.🍖🙄😡 bsky.app/profile/foof...; bsky.app/profile/foof.... 8647.😎
Every time these team Trump creatures speak, it’s like visiting the locked ward of a psychiatric facility. Twisted logic, paranoia, hateful rage, verbal assaults, attacking anyone who threatens their view of reality. They really are criminally insane.
The glue-eaters from elementary school now run the country
Shitlerites
You forgot Stephen Miller.
Did anyone ever try and tell him?
I bet they have, over and over but because he is an expert on everything he won't listen.
Someone tell this kid fucking traitor that asylum is a place or refuge and safety. I hate these nativist fuckers so much.
Moron
dangerous sociopathic moron
Do you think he really believes that or do you think it’s just a red meat chunk for the gullible cult members to gobble?
Well, the lunatics are running the asylum on Pennsylvania Avenue, aren't they?
He could just be twisting that for hype. It's what the Rs have been doing for years.
I’m convinced he’s repeating talking points from the 80s Mariel boatlift. It was claimed Castro emptied patients from mental institutions, put them on boats and pushed them toward Florida. Most all of his framing seems to be from the late 70s to mid 80s so it fits.
Mentally Trump is stuck in the 80s.
Cuban exiles who hang out at MAGA-Lago probably told him this
Great point. Yes, his references tend to all be vintage
I don’t think it’s deliberate, I go into deep vintage references and allusions. If you know you are doing it, it’s fun. If you don’t—well he seems to have stopped doing asking things in.
I'd agree I doubt it's deliberate.
Wow. “He seems to have stopped taking things in.”
I love his using the 80s term “acid washed” in reference to Hillary’s emails.
🤣 Yes, say what you will, he does have a certain way with words
Ohhhh that’s an interesting take, because this one has particularly puzzled me. It’s so so so fucking stupid.
Brings to mind his first term. I feel like the only knowledge he has in that warped brain stopped accumulating 50 years ago.
This makes sense. His whole frame of reference is bits and pieces of stuff he recalls from the 70s/80s all jumbled together in his brain that burbles out in this hallucinatory word salad.
Took the words out of my mouth. His brain is lost in that era definitely.
I mean, that is fairly consistent with the claims of Dementia. Many Dementia patients have VIVID and accurate memories of a very specific timeframe (my grandfather could've told you prices of stuff in his garage in 1956 but didn't know his own name) but just can't form new memories.
Indeed. And I have tremendous empathy for those suffering with that disease and their families. But DJT is so vile and mean, I will save my empathy for the people he hurts.
A very reasonable position to take IMO.
Water flows south/down from Oregon to California. 🙄
He finally said it outright.
Disgusting 🤢 human & out of touch
He also thinks he’s president
Also thinks he has a beautiful body, according to his pill pushing Dr.
Exactly
LMFAO!🤣