On Tuesday morning, President Trump once again performed his weekly ego-sanctifying ritual and called into FOX and Friends, a safe space where his best friends tell him how cruel and unfair the world is and let him vent his frustrations.
As usual, the call primarily consisted of Trump promoting conspiracy theories about his political challenger and leveling ridiculous accusations against him, like the idea that Joe Biden would “take away God” from Texas, that his Attorney General Bill Barr should take punitive action against the former Vice-President and his son, and that Biden wants to take away your healthcare by making you “go to a hospital for a cold.”
On Fox & Friends, Trump insists he’ll win Texas because Biden wants to “take away” God. It’s not the first time he’s used this line but it’s pretty bonkers. (Also note how Trump’s comments have absolutely nothing to do with the question he was asked.) pic.twitter.com/qZxHQnDDHS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 20, 2020
But the real tell into the president’s rapidly declining mental faculties and the degree to which the president’s wildly overblown sense of self-victimhood was the remarkable exchange which saw Trump refuse to answer a question about his favorite milkshake flavor before complaining that he never gets any easy questions.
Without a shred of irony, Trump refuses to answer a question about his favorite milkshake flavor, then goes on a rant complaining about how interviewers never ask him softball questions pic.twitter.com/r1CELVRFis
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 20, 2020
“Yeah about in about a year or two when everything is so perfect I’m gonna let you answer that, or answer that question, I’m gonna give you the nicest answer, I’d love to have a question like that, but we’re in the middle of a battle we have to win, cause here’s a guy involved in the second biggest scandal, I consider spying on my campaign to be the biggest, this could supersede it, maybe, this could supersede it, but he’s committed crimes! He’s a criminal! and they ask him about a milkshake! What ice cream do you like? I never get that question. And they give him the questions and he reads the answer off a computer! That’s never happened to me!” complained Donald Trump in a dizzying outburst of petulance and whiny frustration.
Why the man with the “very very large brain” now finds it to be extremely unfair that his rival doesn’t have to come up with the answers to policy questions on the fly during an election to be the president of the United States is beyond us, but this is an issue he wants to complain about, then perhaps he shouldn’t be in a position to answer any questions at all. It would be so much easier if he were somewhere where he could just relax and not have to face the scrutiny of the media — like prison!