Trump Stokes Cognitive Decline Flames By Falsely Claiming He’s At ‘93%’ In Imaginary Poll

Donald Trump at a news conference on Aug. 15, 2024, in Bedminster, N.J. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty

In today’s episode of Donald Trump’s Mental Decline Is Declining, the former president, on Saturday, asked his audience of MAGA rubes in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, “Why are we having an election?”

As usual, it’s hard to say what Trump was talking about, or if he even knew what he was saying, but it appeared his rhetorical question either suggested that he was so ahead in the polls we might as well not have an election, or that since Democrats didn’t have a primary election to nominate Harris, Republicans shouldn’t have to sit for a general election. Either way, Trump was offering his constituents his usual brand of pure delusion.

“You know, they do polls on this stuff, and I’m at like 93%,” Trump said, referring to surveys that exist in the same imaginary world where evidence of a “rigged” 2020 election exists. “I said, ‘So why are we having an election? They didn’t have an election. Why are we having an election?’”

Even if it weren’t true that a growing number of national polls have Harris leading Trump and that all polls are showing a tight race, it wouldn’t be conceivable that any survey has Trump winning 93% of any voter base, if that is, indeed, what Trump was trying to say. It appears that Trump is, once again, just saying any old thing with the understanding that none of his equally delusional MAGA minions will question it.

Also, he’s still whining about President Joe Biden stepping down and Harris stepping up.

“This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said during the rally, referring to his new narrative that Biden was unjustly forced out of the November election. “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup.”

Nah, that ain’t a coup. A coup is more like, say, if a sitting president lost his bid for re-election and he responded by embarking on a propaganda campaign claiming with no evidence that the election was rigged, then he told his supporters to “fight like hell” against the non-existent rigging, then those supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overthrow the government while it was certifying votes for the non-rigged election. That’s a much closer description of a coup than Biden stepping down after Republicans successfully convinced America that the president’s so-called declining mental acuity made him unfit for office. (Seriously, MAGA Republicans created the narrative that led to Biden stepping aside, and now they’re regretting it and Trump crying it’s unfair.)

Here’s Trump making the same loud, wrong and desperate claim previously.

“The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden and I’m no Biden fan,” he said. “But I tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away … For a country with a Constitution that we cherish — we cherish this Constitution — to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible. You would have thought they would have gone out to a vote, they would have had a primary system, they would have done something but just take it away from him like he was a child…”

He also posted on Truth Social that “the Democrats have Unconstitutionally taken a Candidate … and unceremoniously replaced him with a new Candidate.”

First of all, even if it was true that Democrats forced Biden to step down, which it isn’t, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution about the process for which a party chooses a new nominee if the incumbent president decides not to run for a second term. So, setting aside the fact that it obviously wouldn’t be feasible for Democrats to stage a primary election and for Democratic candidates to launch new presidential campaigns a few months before the general election, Trump’s claim that Democrats have done anything unconstitutional by nominating Harris only shows he doesn’t know what’s actually in that Constitution he claims to “cherish.” (I mean, he also tried to cancel democracy after losing in 2020, but whatever.)

Trump is also continuing to show how afraid he is of Kamala Harris, even though he had previously predicted that she would be even easier to beat than Biden. That’s why he was kicking and screaming about having to debate Harris on ABC News. That’s why he’s lying about her crowd sizes being generated by AI. And it’s why he keeps taking desperate shots at her racial identity.

Trump is delusional and he’s running scared. Hopefully, in November, voters will show him he had reason to be.

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