Unwell Candidate Rages Over Faulty Microphone

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Donald Trump's mental acuity is no longer just slipping, it now appears to be cascading downward at a very rapid rate.  This week alone he has publicly fantasized about former congresswoman Liz Cheney in a combat situation staring down nine gun barrels as they fired at her face, opined about a potential assassin having to shoot his way through the news reporters covering his rally in order to get to him - and said, "To get to me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news and I don't mind that so much," complained loudly about his opponent appearing on "Saturday Night Live" (something he has done twice), made multiple unfounded allegations about potential election fraud, and made a verbal threat of physical harm to backstage workers at a venue in Milwaukee.

Trump made the unseemly remarks about Liz Cheney getting shot in Arizona, and that state's attorney general has said that her office is investigating whether Trump's remarks rose to the level of a death threat toward Ms Cheney or not.

Milwaukee this past Friday night seems to have been a truly critical point for Trump.  He was onstage speaking when his microphone failed.    Trump raised and lowered the microphone trying to get it working, with no success, and at one point he began bobbing his head over the mic simulating oral sex.  The microphone was apparently set lower than Trump liked, and news reports said that he spent four minutes complaining about the height of the microphone.  Then he said, "You want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?"

Finally a technician gave him a handheld microphone, and Trump did not like that either.  He roared to the crowd:

"I'm working my ass off with this stupid mic.  I'm blowing out my left arm, now I'm going to blow out my right arm, and I'm blowing out my damn throat too, because of these stupid people!"

Much of what Donald Trump says is, of course, just noise.  Realistically a man with almost eight decades under (and hanging over) his belt is not going to "knock the hell" out of anyone, and Liz Cheney has undoubtedly faced down insects that were more of a threat to her than Trump, but still he roars, and still the press reacts as though his childish outbursts are news.

They're not.

They're just more signs of the rapid onslaught of aging.