“What fresh lunacy is this?” Every new day in MAGAworld brings that quote from Ken Russell’s The Devils to mind, but even seasoned Donald Trump watchers would admit that his answer to a question about starving Iranians ranks among his madder recent moments.
On Thursday (March 26), the president phoned in to Fox News’ The Five and showed less interest in a budding humanitarian crisis than in flirting with the programme’s presenter and speculating about the sexuality of Iran’s new suporeme leader.
Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary to George W Bush, asked Trump about the “upsetting” plight of ordinary Iranians caught in the bombardment by the US and Israel. Nearly 1500 civilians have died so far.
“Do you have any insight as to how they are doing? Do they have drinking water? Do they have food?” she said.
Showing his priorities, Trump replied: “I do. But first. Remember when we had lunch years ago in the base of Trump Tower when it was a brand-new building?
‘You haven’t changed. I’m not allowed to say this. It’s the end of my political career, but you may be even better looking, okay? So, I don’t know what you’re doing.”
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Trump, who will turn 80 on June 14, continued to ramble about the 53-year-old Perino, telling viewers: “You are not allowed to say a woman is beautiful anymore”, and warning co-host Jesse Watters, “you have to be careful”.
When Trump did finally address the question of what was happening to blameless people caught in the crossfire, he did so in a manner that some call “the weave” and others call severe cognitive decline.
“When you look at what has happened, they are petrified, because the one side has guns, and they have very nasty guns, the worst guns and machine guns, and what they do is they shoot you,“ he said.
“And the people are brave, but they are not brave when they see people going down left and who you are, I don’t care how brave, unless you are really stupid, you can’t really protest, and the only reason they are not protesting is because they are being shot, one after another.
“They are doing it with snipers, where they have snipers and buildings—not that they have to be snipers because they have, you know, free range.”
Trump went on to claim that the CIA had told him that Iran’s new ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, is gay. He said: “I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts him off to a bad start in that particular country.”
The president then launched into a tangent about gay Palestinians, telling Perino: “I sort of have to smile to myself when I see people trying to defend the Palestinian regime for women — women for Palestine. But they kill women if you don’t… wear certain cloth all over your face. When I look at ‘Gays for Palestine,’ but they kill gays… and I’m saying, who are the ‘Gays for Palestine?’”
At the time of writing, Donald Trump still has at least 1029 days left in the White House.
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