Trump’s world with AI giving wings.
Over the long Labor Day weekend, a bored Donald let loose a bizzare barrage of 60 missives in 10 hours. For 104 minutes, Trump did his beloved ‘weave’— surpassing his own record length convention speech set in Milwaukee two years ago — never even stopping once to sip water. He repeated for the umpteenth time his false claim to have won three presidential elections and suggested “people on the other side are actually admitting it.
“The Moon Is Ours,” declared one post. And then there was one touting the “The Legend of Trump,” portraying him as a pixelated retro video game hero walking into the Oval Office working “tirelessly to Make America Great Again. Thus energized, he headed to “Trump-a-palooza,” the unusual midterm Republican jamboree in Dallas Texas, “to have a little bit of (more) fun” away from stuffy Washington where you have to make “very staid” State of Union speeches that make “everybody fall asleep. “I love the weave,” Trump mused, gesticulating wildly. He talked about changing names, from making Lake Ontario, Lake America to suggesting New Mexico “should be called ‘New America’” before grandiosely announcing that he would call the strait of Hormuz “the ‘Trump Strait’ and I’m sure the Iranian leadership will be thrilled with that. Somewhere in the middle, Trump talked about the midterms asking voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot” with a promise to pay each adult American a $5,000 “dividend” if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate.
It’s all make believe in Donald Trump’s world with AI giving wings to his all too frequent flights of fancy. In another, he smashes Iran with a giant hammer. A third shows him intimidating Canada’s prime minister with a hockey stick amid an escalating trade war. “You know what the weave is? You talk about something, then you bring in a ballroom, or you bring in an aeroplane, or you bring in Air Force One – but you notice I always get right back to the same topic. The crowd cheered and shouted: “Four more years!
Calling “these so-called ‘journalists,’ liars and scoundrels,” he again echoed his pet peeve, “They’re angry, and sick, over the fact that I won the Presidential Election three times! He called “on the Smithsonian Institution to honor the Life and Legacy of George Washington, America’s Greatest Hero, with a five-year exhibition at the National Museum of American History” — days after relegating America’s first President to second place after himself. He also asked “the Smithsonian to erect a 30-foot ‘Colossus statue’ of the Father of Our Country outside the Museum, to replace the so-called ‘Infinity sculpture’ …that tells visitors nothing about America, inspires no one.”
“Hagerman, unattractive both inside and out, fully knows that her story is made up. Meanwhile, back in the Oval Office, Trump turned his attention back to his ornate renovation projects to make DC beautiful again.
As critics called it a bribe, he doubled down next day on his promise of the “Trump dividend” that economists have warned would, if it ever comes to pass, cost Uncle Sam $1.2 trillion — adding just a spoonful into America’s $40 trillion bucket of red ink! So come November 3, would it be game over for Trump, wondered critics as White House removed a Tetris-inspired online arcade game called “Build the Wall” from its website following a copyright complaint from The Tetris Company. But for Trump, it’s always heads I win tails you lose. Whatever the outcome, the pretentious President is going to pretend, nay declare a great victory— others may pretend they’re living in an alternate reality! (By arrangement with The American Bazaar) Catch the latest World News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.
And as they head out to the polls on November 3, perhaps they can well pretend that Trump vanquished Iran and scored a great victory in its trade war with Canada. They can also pretend that there is no pain at the pump even as the average price for a gallon of diesel in the U.S. hit $6.05, up $2.35 from a year ago, and every day essentials are affordable again!
Trump wrapped up the jamboree by asking attendees to raise their hands and “pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much he can’t even breathe,” that registered or not, they will go out to vote and “try to cheat like hell like they do” — repeating another unfounded accusation. I was building a building in New York, and I had a lot of construction workers,” he said in an interview with Fox. “The Failing New York Magazine” earned Trump’s wrath for writing “a story that I wasn’t down at the World Trade Center after the Tragedy of September 11th, because nobody saw me there. “The Fake News doesn’t want to listen, even when they know their story is false,” he posted on Truth Social with “clips of me there with numerous of my people,” adding, “That’s why their approval ratings are at an All Time LOW, but mine are VERY HIGH! He also demanded a retraction from “Maggot Hagerman,” as he derogatorily called The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, for another story “that I did not go to the New York World Trade Center event, but the Pentagon instead, because they wouldn’t let me speak in New York.”
“I went down. “And I went down there very shortly thereafter, the following day. You couldn’t go down the same day, but like, the following day, very quickly afterwards, and we worked long and hard, but it was just so terrible, so hopeless,” he added.
Earlier, at a tribute on the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, Trump added a new claim to his disputed role in the recovery effort at Ground Zero.