Loony: posted on August 6 that Biden will try to "take back the nomination . . . he wants it back."

The lies that Trump has told since 2015, tabulated in the thousands by news sources,¹ have recently devolved into rants that are manifestly delusional. On August 11, 2024, he claimed that the crowd of thousands at a Detroit airport Harris rally covered live by multiple media channels "didn't exist"—they were all faked by AI—"there was nobody there." In a Truth Social post a week earlier on August 6, Trump asked what the chances were that "Crooked Joe Biden" crashes the DNC "and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE."² In Trump's delusional posting, Biden would realize that he passed the nomination onto "the people in the WORLD he most hates" and needed redemption against Trump in another debate.³ At a rally in Montana on August 9, three days later, Trump extended this bizarre scenario, saying that Biden was going to walk into the Democratic convention and say "I want my presidency back. I want another chance to debate Trump. I want another chance."⁴ Both of these comments come after Harris was officially secured as the Democratic nominee by a virtual vote of Democratic delegates.⁵

On October 18, on a Fox and Friends broadcast, in response to a question from a child about his favorite animal, Trump launched into yet another delusional rant, stating "I'll tell you what I love, I love cows, but if we go with Kamala, you won't have any cows anymore."⁶ He spurted out the same bizarre fantasy about no cows under Harris during campaign stops in Georgia, North Carolina, and Nevada.⁷ On October 26, at a rally in Novi, Michigan, Trump raved that if Harris is elected, "You know the cows are going to disappear. No more cows. No more anything."⁸ He made further delusional claims that there would be no windows in any new buildings under Harris at campaign stops in Nevada and Wisconsin.⁹

With such delusional rants being issued by Trump at an increasing frequency amid his other signs of accelerating cognitive decline,¹⁰ is it possibly just as delusional to assume that the United States would be well served with this man having his finger on the nuclear button?

1. The Washington Post, "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years," January 24, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/; The New York Times, "Trump's Lies," December 14, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html; The Washington Post, "President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days," April 14, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/14/president-trump-made-18000-false-or-misleading-claims-1170-days/; The Washington Post, August 12, 2024, op. cit.; The New York Times, "Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.," August 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/us/politics/lies-trump-obama-mislead.html; Bloomberg, "My Lawyers Got Trump to Admit 30 Lies Under Oath," June 12, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-06-12/trump-s-history-of-lies-according-to-biographer-timothy-o-brien.
2. The Washington Post, "Trump's laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims," August 12, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/trump-crowd-size-false-claims/; The Hill, "Adam Schiff, Gavin Newsom mock Donald Trump for suggesting Joe Biden may take back nomination," August 6, 2024, https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4814723-schiff-newsom-mock-trump-biden/.
3. As cited above.
4. The Washington Post, August 12, 2024, op. cit.; NBC News, "Harris and Walz continue swing state tour with stop in Arizona; Trump rallies in Montana," August 10, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/harris-trump-election-live-updates-rcna164958.
5. The Washington Post, August 12, 2024, op. cit.
6. The Hill, "Trump tells child there will be no cows under Harris," October 18, 2024, https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4941581-trump-says-no-cows-under-harris/.
7. Ibid.; The Washington Post, "Opinion | Donald Trump's hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!," October 18, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/trump-doom-windows-cows-ban-harris/.
8. The Daily Express-US, "Donald Trump claims 'cows will disappear' if Harris wins," October 26, 2024, https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/152819/donald-trump-cows-michigan-rally-election-2024.
9. As cited in note 7 above.
10. The New York Times, "Trump's Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age," October 6, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html; The New York Times, "Opinion | In Trump's Speeches, Signs of Cognitive Impairment," October 9, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/opinion/donald-trump-cognitive-impairment.html.