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Donald Trump’s recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent. Sadly, that’s not news. But what stood out is that Trump is consistently confused and disconnected from reality even on issues that are supposedly in his wheelhouse.
Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms — especially in light of all the media attention and scrutiny Joe Biden received after his disastrous debate performance or when Special Counsel Robert Hur described him as “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
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Trump, who turns 79 in June, is the oldest person ever elected president. His repetitive speech patterns, frequent use of empty phrases, and overall rambling discourse are too often graded on a curve.
White House officials and pandering Republicans might boast about Trump’s boundless energy in a manner that would shame North Korean state media, but the Time and Atlantic interviews tell a very different story.
Rancid word salad
Trump was especially all over the place during his Time interview.
Conducted on April 22, he probably could’ve anticipated being asked about his April 9 executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate Christopher Krebs, former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. (Trump has never forgiven Krebs for correctly stating publicly that the 2020 election was secure and not in any way rigged.)
Shockingly, however, Trump didn’t a prepare a defense for his abuse of power. Time asked Trump, “You recently signed memos calling for an investigation of Chris Krebs, a top cybersecurity official in your first term. Isn't that, though, what you accused Biden of doing to you?” Trump’s response to this question was totally incoherent.
I think Chris Krebs was a disgrace to our country. I think he was—I think he was terrible. By the way, I don't know him. I'm not—I don't think I ever met him. I probably saw him around. You know, I have people come in, like the other one. He came in, and he's on CNN all the time as like an expert on Trump. I have no idea who he is. And Chris Krebs the same thing. I guess he probably said he knows me, but I have no idea. And you know, oftentimes I'll have some people sitting right here, and behind them will be 10 or 15 people from their agency or their office, and they'll stand there, and then all of a sudden, I'll hear that like I'm, you know, they're all time experts in me. I know very little about Chris Krebs, but I think he was very deficient.
As the transcript shows, Trump didn’t even attempt to answer the question posed to him. He often pretends to have never met someone he believes has spoken ill of him, but his situational amnesia is less effective as an explanation for why he’s weaponizing the government against Krebs.
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Later in the interview, after Trump boasted that Biden would have never