"Six bankruptcies, including casinos, which requires a special type of incompetence. Twenty four credible allegations of sexual assault. Thirty four felony convictions. The attempted assassination of American democracy on January 6th. Held civilly liable for rape. Amassing four billion dollars through sheer graft during term two. The destrucntion of NATO and our alliances globally and in the Gulf. Turning Iran into the hegemon of the middle east. " - WaPo comment
What is it with so many otherwise sober media mavens and commentators that they can't grasp Trump's clear derangement and malignant narcissism - which form the basis for his feral energy - as well as feeding his frenzy of nonstop lies? Especially concerning our election integrity - which the fungal orange cockroach attempted to savage last night. Claiming on the basis of "previously classified documents" he could prove the 2020 election was undermined by Chinese "interference". According to a WSJ account following the spin, errr speech:
" Trump addressed the nation Thursday from the White
House, where he delivered allegations of foreign influence in U.S. elections.
His administration began releasing what he described as previously classified
documents to support his assertions, and he repeated some of the
unsubstantiated claims he has made in the past."
Not surprisingly, his deranged new twist was to claim evidence of foreign machines altering votes but didn’t present a speck of hard evidence. Why would he when the only real thing he has to work with are his own lies. And since he knows he cannot get the votes of normal, rational voters, then as a traitor and felon he must resort to propaganda and misinformation to try t bend the minds of as many as he can. As Lawrence O'Donnell put it in blunt terms following the pathetic performance:
"Donald Trump believes his voters are the stupidest in the world, not just in America. Because he believes he can spend the rest of his life lying to them about anything."
And getting them to prop him up. Don't laugh. In a NY Times piece yesterday, featuring "ten young Trump voters",
A particular voter vulnerability, in fact, came up for discussion yesterday morning on Stephanie Ruhle's 'Money, Power and Politics'. There at least one guest insisted Trump's incessant lies were disabling many people's ability to see the truth. I point the finger at the Gen Z's especially after reading the book Hollowed Out, where the author (Jeremy Adams) highlighted the extraordinary political and historical ignorance of young Americans, many even unable to distinguish the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution. The fact the Gen Z's went for a liar, insurrectionist and felon in the first place, shows me they lack the wherewithal to see through his manipulation efforts.
Meanwhile, the usual Trump lackeys, like the cheerleader Karoline Leavitt - who fancies herself a "press secretary" - continued to reel off lies ahead of Trump's primetime fiasco, insisting: "His so-called obsession is only because he cares about the sanctity of our elections."
Hey, Bimbo, if that was true he wouldn't be trying to blow up our elections with his cognitively dissonant 'Save America Act'! See e.g.
Brane Space: Needing A U.S. Passport To Vote? Why The Misnamed 'SAVE' Act Is Not "Partisan Hype" -
But my main beef has been with the so-called "legacy media" - especially the right-leaning Wall Street Journal, as I noted a month ago (June 12 post)"
"Are the nabobs at the WSJ so devoted to his deformed agenda that they're willing to hurl this nation down the shit can to keep coddling him while castigating critics? Can't they see he's not firing on all cylinders, or even half?"
And the refusal to accept reality, i.e. that you lost a goddamned election, factors into that insanity. That plus incessant late night posting - citing former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb, attesting to Trump's brand of insanity:
Trump Lawyer Calls For 25th Amendment Over PSYCHOTIC MELTDOWN
But now, as Paul Krugman has noted, Trump's attacks on elections, combined with his shit-faced stupid attempts to control the Strait of Hormuz, are carrying us into far more dangerous territory, e.g.
This needs to be watched in entirety, as it also makes sense out of deranged Dotard's prime time lie time last night. As Krugman notes:
"What's really scary here is Trump looks like he's given up on trying to extract something that looks like victory."
The implication being he's willing to go to more extreme means to get it, despite the fact this comports with his madness - the inability to grasp the reality that the Strait is not his to control. And even bombing the nuclear reactor at Isfahan (reported in the FT some time ago) will not get him that control. So the only other distraction he can use to try to manipulate public opinion is to attack our election integrity - traitor that he is. As Krugman goes on to note:
"This is ominous because what is Trump's plan for the midterm elections? Here we have just as Trump is prepared to give u0p on trying to spin the Iran war as a positive outcome we have reports he's going to give a prime time speech Thursday about election fraud in 2020. And he may also try to declare the two Democratic Senators from Georgia as somehow illegitimate.
That's not going to actually work and nobody's going to be convinced he actually won the 2020 election. But what is happening is that he's setting up the pretext, the groundwork, for massive interference in the voting this November. And we're basically seeing some kind of attempt to block fair elections. So it's pretty clear now that Trump and those around him have actually given up on trying to win over voters.
They've decided instead that some combination of propaganda, misinformation and disinformation and possibly massive illegality is their way forward. And to say 'they'd never do that' has been the best way to be wrong about everything, every step of the Trump administration.
So the fact Trump is back to bombing Iran - mentioning it - is not because I have any fear that America is going to be at risk from a foreign power. But rather it signals an enormous risk to us from our own president, our own government. And you know, be afraid, be very afraid."
Meanwhile, some nine hours before Trump's performance, Sen. John Ossof (GA) best summed up what the orange maggot would do:
"Here's what's going to happen tonight. The world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime time address to pursue his six year old grievances on losing the 2020 election while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country.
I also expect him to re-heat the debunked conspiracy theory about the repeatedly litigated, audited and confirmed 2020 presidential election result that Donald Trump LOST. Let me make this very clear. If he declares Georgia's election illegitimate and Georgia's two Democratic Senators illegitimate then he is declaring Georgia's voters illegitimate. Remember it was Donald Trump who committed election fraud when he phoned the Georgia Secretary of State on January 2, 2021 and said: 'I just need to find 11,780 votes, which is just one more than we have."
Which as Lawrence O'Donnell stated afterward, constituted a "crime in progress".
But what the hell do you expect of the first ever felon (and traitor) president? Last night continued that crime in progress. Including demanding licenses for ABC, NBC to be revoked for not airing his endless horse shit lies, e.g.
This is the liar, criminal and madman - in charge of a criminal regime (not a government) who should have been removed a year ago.
See Also:
by Robert Reich | July 17, 2026 - 5:06am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
The real message to be drawn from Trump’s address to the nation tonight is that he will call into question the votes of every state and city that chooses a Democratic senator or representative in the 2026 midterm elections. He’ll push Republican governors and mayors not to certify the results. He’ll demand recounts and audits.
We’ve been here before, but this time he’s even less restrained than he was in 2020 and is surrounded by people who will do his bidding.
His address tonight was absurd. It was riddled with so many lies that I’m reluctant to dignify them with rebuttals, but you should have them.
And:
Trump doesn't realize how much he just embarrassed himself
And:
ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE As BALLISTIC MISSILES RAIN On US Bases & Iran ENDS ALL TALKS!! | Kyle Kulinski
And:
‘Uncle Donnie's’ brain MALFUNCTIONS on world stage
And:
"The Greater COLLAPSE Has Begun..." - Douglas MacGregor
And:
Trump has declared the Strait of Hormuz open. The facts say otherwise. - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
The Strait of Hormuz is now open for “ALL Ship traffic,”
except Iran’s, President Donald Trump said on social media this week. But
a presidential tweet does not make it so. “The United States [is] on course for perpetual conflict” in
the Middle East, even without “a real, serious escalation,” said Seth Jones,
president of the defense and security department at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
And:
by Thom Hartmann | July 16, 2026 - 5:03am | permalink
Tonight at nine o’clock Eastern, Donald Trump will look into a television camera and tell America he’s rescuing democracy. He teased the address to reporters this week, promising “really big news” about “free and fair elections” and adding that “it doesn’t get bigger.” For once, he and I agree. It doesn’t get bigger.
An administration official told Reuters that the speech will center on newly declassified intelligence about the 2020 election and what the White House calls voting machine vulnerabilities open to foreign hackers; multiple election experts quoted in that same reporting warn he’s laying the groundwork to contest Republican losses this November.
To understand what we’ll actually be watching Thursday night, we have to go back to 1973, to a Manhattan night spot called Le Club, where a 27-year-old Donald Trump, freshly sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to Black families, met the most feared lawyer in New York. It’s a story I tell in detail in The Last American President.
And:
by Adam Lynch | July 17, 2026 - 5:14am | permalink
During a Thursday speech addressing his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump presented several claims about foreign interference and federal government actions he said affected the election results. Trump cited allegations involving Chinese acquisition of voter data, Deep State actors, Venezuelan interference, and concerns about voting machine security.
Here are some of his stranger claims:
1. China 'massaged' the election with manufactured ballots.
As predicted, Trump launched into his Thursday grievance speech over his 2020 election loss, complaining that Chinese government officials manipulated the race to hide his 2020 victory —despite no accusations of that panning out in 2021, despite the volume of Trump’s complaints.
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