Social Media Reacts To Donald Trump's Wackadoodle Press Conference
People on social media watched Donald Trump’s decidedly weird press conference Thursday and concluded that the ex-president is “massively overconfident,” “incoherent,” and “one egg short of an [omelet].”
In his rambling remarks, Trump aired his usual grievances and falsehoods to reporters, lied that that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris would “force” Americans to buy electric cars, and charged that the vice president wasn’t “smart enough to do a news conference.”
Oh, and he also claimed that his speeches attracted more people than civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
“If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people — if not, we had more.”
Not surprisingly, Trump’s antics got a lot of attention on X, formerly Twitter, where one person called his press conference “bad improv.”
It's like bad improv at this point. Not funny, not present, doesn't understand the word the audience just tried to prompt him with... but massively overconfident in his skills. https://t.co/zl11V0kyu8
— Sean Casten (@SeanCasten) August 8, 2024
If watching Trump's public meltdown at Mar-a-lago right now, you think he's stable and cognitively able enough to entrust with the lives of our Troops and the lives of your families, we don't know what to tell you. The old man is one egg short of an omelette.
— VoteVets (@votevets) August 8, 2024
Let's be honest: the guy looks terrified, with all sorts of weak body language. He also looks worn down physically.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 8, 2024
I find this man super weird and I did a love scene with a duck. #trumpmeltdownhttps://t.co/66oMePXbBn
— Lea Thompson (@LeaKThompson) August 8, 2024
This is the day the Trump campaign died.
It's over.— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 8, 2024
But that doesn’t mean people want him to stop.
Please do this every day as an in-kind contribution to the Harris campaign. That was completely insane. 😂
— Dr. Jessica Smock (@schoolofsmock) August 8, 2024
Please God let him do this every day for three months
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 8, 2024
Watching Trump
The decision to have this undisciplined press conference is 10 times worse than the decision to pick JD Vance.
This is driving away everyone except MAGA dead-enders.
He gained zero but gave Harris another polling bump & hours of sound bites.— Patti Lyles (@dmills8) August 8, 2024
And some people wondered when the media would fixate on Trump’s cognitive abilities and his fitness for office.
Compare the tame (fearful?) behavior of reporters in Trump “press conference” to reporters behavior in Biden White House press briefings.
Trump has been given special treatment by media from day one and still gets it.— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) August 8, 2024
Press should report this as incoherent, displaying mental deterioration. He is unwell. The refusal to explain how unhinged he is and instead to normalize is reprehensible
— Jen "We aren't going back " Rubin 🥥🌴 (@JRubinBlogger) August 8, 2024
Ok so the entire media said Biden was too old after he stumbled on a few sentences at the debate but Trump can say he had bigger crowds than MLK? pic.twitter.com/taPqEoqMwr
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) August 8, 2024
It's peculiar that Trump can drone on and on, repeating what he thinks is his greatest hits & the media never question his fitness for office or emphasizes his pending court cases that would disappear if he were elected. Remind us once in a while, okay? @msnbchttps://t.co/cf7r4gkjTv
— debraj1121 on Threads: debraj112expand (@debraj112) August 8, 2024
Kudos to @CNN & @MSNBC for breaking away for instant fact checking of the sociopaths lies. The list was long&they only touched the tip of the iceberg of his multitude of blatant lies. Wait until the diapered felon sees the footage of the fact checks.🤣Ketchup! "Watching Trump"
— bmichael (@brolivor) August 8, 2024
Former Trump press secretary Anthony Scaramucci said the whole crazy event suggested to him that “Trump is frightened.”
Trump is frightened.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 8, 2024
And others expressed their emotions with visuals.
Watching Trump like pic.twitter.com/XHOgBtt5BH
— LoriNSoCal60 🌊🐶🇺🇦🥥🌴😍 (@LCal60) August 8, 2024
Putin, watching Trump's news conference. pic.twitter.com/OzmrxEHOvi
— Dana 🌊 (@DanaSan68018976) August 8, 2024
Me after watching Trump's Mar-a-Lago disaster. pic.twitter.com/3Ey1RJZOJu
— Leftwing (@LeftWing_YT) August 8, 2024