The more Donald Trump speaks, the less we understand him. This is as true after the election as it was before.
I am beginning to wonder if Trump sees the color blue when he looks at a sunny sky. Or some days does it appear to be red?
His views of reality apparently shift by the hour.
This is not a good characteristic to see in a world leader, to say the least.
The latest evidence of Trump’s shifting perceptions came last night when he appeared in front of his garish Mar-a-lago estate to speak to reporters. The question of sanctions against Russia was raised, because President Obama is set to announce them today.
It has become clear to everyone other than Trump that the Russians did indeed attempt to influence our election. The Senate is planning a full investigation into the issue, but Trump refuses to accept the hacking as fact.
When asked about the need for sanctions against Russia, Trump dismissed the idea right away, saying:
“I think we ought to get on with our lives.”
Please cast your mind back to Trump’s campaign rallies, in which he demanded even more investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails. He wasn’t so eager for us to “get on with our lives” then, was he?
To make things even more confounding, Trump went on to blame the hacking issue on computers. Not the voting machines, mind you, but the existence of computers in general. He said:
“I think the computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on. We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind of security that we need.”
What?
Computers are bad, says the man who can’t stay off Twitter long enough to listen to a security briefing? The man who is demanding that he be allowed to keep his own phone after the inauguration?
Really?
So the entire government knows that Russia hacked into the DNC and other key election sites. Donald Trump brushes it off as a complication of living in the age of computers, and tell us to just move on.
I swear, the more he talks, the more confused he sounds.
Watch the video below, and tell me that he is making sense. Oh, and check out the supremely creepy Don King standing beside him waving a handful of flags.
Featured image via YouTube screengrab.
