General Discussion

from the past week, IMHO, was when Trump asked, "am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different. They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place. It looks like terrible.’

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-and-his-television/684406/

We know Trump has always been a big consumer of Fox. Fox knows that and they tailor their reporting specifically for Trump. And we also know that Trump staffers work with Fox to put things on the screen they want to put into Trump's limited brain. There is nothing new about that.

But in this case, Trump's question seemed to be sincere. He seemed to really believe Portland is a war zone with fires blazing away at every Starbucks. That would represent an almost unfathomable level of disconnect from reality.

I realize this is all what Trump wants to believe, but I really don't see how it serves Stephen Miller, or whoever is running this shitshow, to have the President say such maniacal things about one of the most peaceful cities in the country. I mean, Trump has been Jonesing to invade a "Dem city". If he had any remaining reasoning power, wouldn't he at least ask about doing CHicago instead of Portland? At least Chicago might be a little believable.