Trump Has a Script?!

Trump's campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders. It was an attempt to latch onto a new headline in hopes of finally escaping the controversies that had consumed his week.

It didn’t work.

It took Trump nearly 25 minutes to read the brief statement because he kept going off on one angry tangent after another — ignoring his teleprompters and accusing Clinton of not being “loyal” to her husband, imitating her buckling at a memorial service last month, suggesting that she is “crazy” and saying she should be in prison. [...] He also repeatedly complained about having a "bum mic" at the first presidential debate and wondered if he should have done another season of “The Apprentice.”

  WaPo

His buttons have been pushed.

Trump demeaned and mocked Sanders himself, saying that he has “a much bigger movement than Bernie Sanders ever had” and that he has “much bigger crowds than Bernie Sanders ever had.”

Should he be bragging about his big movements?

“Crazy Bernie,” Trump said at one point.

Yes, Bernie is the one who's crazy.

He also took on Clinton's remarks about Sanders' supporters.

“In a really sarcastic tone because she’s a sarcastic woman.”

Yes, Hillary is the one who's sarcastic.

And crazy, too.

He claimed that he has a “winning temperament” while Clinton has “bad temperament.” Trump continued: “She could be crazy. She could actually be crazy.”

[...]

He resumed his scripted spot: “To sum up…”

But he interrupted himself: “And I’ll tell you the other thing: She’s an incompetent woman. And I’ve seen it. She’s an incompetent woman.”

Of course the debate moderator didn't escape the tirade.

“Did anybody like Lester Holt?” Trump said, naming the debate moderator as his crowd booed.

[...]

He told the crowd to get a group of friends together on Election Day, vote and then go to “certain areas” and “watch” the voters there. "I hear too many bad stories, and we can't lose an election because of you know what I'm talking about,” Trump said. “So, go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen, and we don't want to lose for that reason.”

I see lawsuits involving Trump bullies hanging about polling stations intimidating brown people.

And I don't even have a clue what this means:

“How many people have acid-washed or bleached a tweet?” Trump asked the crowd. “How many? That you deleted? So you deleted it but that’s not good enough. No, this is getting crazy. Our country is becoming a third-world country.”

But wait...it gets even better.

“You have 38 days to make every dream you ever dreamed for your country come true,” Trump said. “Do not let this opportunity slip away or be wasted. You will never ever have this chance again. Not going to happen again… You have one magnificent chance.”

[...]

“You’re unsuspecting,” Trump said. “Right now, you say to your wife: ‘Let’s go to a movie after Trump.’ But you won’t do that because you’ll be so high and so excited that no movie is going to satisfy you. Okay? No movie. You know why? Honestly? Because they don’t make movies like they used to — is that right?”

[...]

Trump thanked and blessed the crowd, pumped his fist in the air and then stepped aside to join them in applauding his speech.

If he makes it through three debates, at the end he's going to be like Judge Doom in Roger Rabbit.

Meltdown.

You can watch the hour-long spectacle on YouTube.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.