Amidst reports that he has become unglued by having to compete with Kamala Harris for the presidency, Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. And if the goal was to reassure people that (1) he is not at all freaked out by the vice president’s rising poll numbers and (2) he is the best candidate for the White House, he was not exactly successful!

Trump repeatedly insulted Harris’s intelligence, calling her “barely competent,” saying that she “can't do a news conference” because “she’s not smart enough,” and claiming that she’s “not as smart” as Joe Biden. (As a reminder, Trump thinks there were airports during the Revolutionary War and that it’s safe to inject bleach into the body; he’s also been described as an idiot by numerous people who worked for him.)

As has become a recurring feature of his public remarks, the ex-president also spent time insulting Jewish Americans, saying if they vote for Harris, “they should have their head examined.” He baselessly claimed that Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, has been “very bad to Jewish people.” And, after claiming yesterday that Harris’s decision to pick Tim Walz as her running mate over Josh Shapiro was a snub to Jewish people—and that Shapiro would have been a stronger running mate—he said Shapiro is “a terrible guy and he’s not very popular with anybody.”

Also, at one point, he reiterated that he thinks migrants who are seeking asylum are coming to the US via “insane asylums.”

Naturally, the main theme of Trump’s remarks was that they were all completely ridiculous lies. Said lies included:

• That the “majority” of the country supports him (in fact, he lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020)
• That Democrats “are allowed to do abortion on the eighth and ninth month, and even after birth” (Democrats neither allow nor support abortion “even after birth,“ which is murder)
• That “nobody was killed on January 6” (seven people died in connection to the attack, including Trump supporter Ashli Babbit)
• That there was a “peaceful transfer” of power after the last election (See: January 6)
• That Harris is “going to destroy Social Security” (she and Biden have said they will not make any cuts to the program, whereas Trump has talked about “cutting” entitlements, before walking back his comments)
• That his Manhattan criminal trial was run by the Justice Department (it was the Manhattan district attorney’s office)
• That he disapproved of the “lock her up“ chants about Hillary Clinton (in fact, he personally called for her imprisonment on at least seven occasions, including during the 2020 election when he wasn’t even running against her)
• That Harris “couldn’t pass her bar exam” (she did, on the second try, and was admitted to the California bar the year after she graduated law school)
• That “everybody’s going to be forced to buy an electric car” if Democrats win in 2024 (Just…no)

But sure, he’s not at all panicking.

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