"I was quite the baseball player, you wouldn't believe, said Donald Trump, suddenly wistful as he recalled his the salad days when his mother would tell him, Son, you could be a professional baseball player, and he would reply, Thanks, mom. Carpe diem! Not for the first time on Tuesday, the US president had veered wildly off topic. The point of this story was a big building that loomed over the park in Queens, New York, where he used to play little league baseball."
"Trump, 79, a self-proclaimed very stable genius who keeps acing cognitive tests, made so many references to the mentally insane and insane asylums in the White House briefing room that it seemed like insecurity. It also gave cold comfort to a watching world that fears the future of the transatlantic alliance now lies in the hands of a modern Caligula."
"Trump threw in some wild zigzags, from I love Hispanic to naked xenophobia about Somalia, from the big lie that he won the 2020 election to a dismissal of former special counsel Jack Smith as a sick son of a bitch, from rebranding coal as clean, beautiful coal to renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Trump (the last one was a joke, he promised)."
Donald Trump recalled childhood baseball anecdotes and veered into tangents during a White House briefing marking his first year in office. He referenced mental illness and asylums in ways that suggested insecurity and unsettled international observers. He read a list of accomplishments in a slow monotone for over an hour and a half, repeating points with growing monotony. He shifted between praising Hispanics and expressing xenophobia toward Somalia, promoted the false claim he won the 2020 election, and insulted former special counsel Jack Smith. He rebranded coal as clean, joked about renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Trump, called the ICE shooting of Renee Good a tragedy while noting her parents were supporters, and briefly struggled with a paper clip.
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