Your Weekend Trump Dump

Two days ago, Donald Trump did an impromptu interview with the New York Times that has people again talking about his mental health. One of those is Ezra Klein who explains why he believes "The president of the United States is not well."

Want to get a second opinion? Glenn Kessler — fact-checker for the Washington Post — says that Trump made 24 false or misleading statements in thirty minutes. A few of these seem nitpicky to me but there are enough inarguable howlers in there to make you wonder if he really believes this stuff and is making decisions based on fantasy information.

And Trump has started arguing that the U.S. Postal Service should be charging Amazon more for transporting its parcels. The problem with that accusation, as Jen Kirby notes, is that the U.S.P.S. makes money transporting parcels. The post office is in bad financial shape because delivering First Class Mail is becoming increasingly unprofitable. You'd think a great businessman like Donald Trump would understand something like this but he's apparently too angry at the guy who who owns Amazon because he also owns the Washington Post that prints things like Glenn Kessler's article.

Meanwhile, Roy Moore hasn't conceded and will probably never concede an election that has now been certified for his opponent. A problem I always have with these "God is in control" people is that what they really believe (or insist is so) is that "God is in control and He wants me to always win." When they lose, that's apparently because God is not in control which cannot be because God is always in control…or something. William Saletan dismembers Moore's current argument which is so incoherent, it reads like Trump wrote it for him.

And through it all, no one gives a shit about a part of America known as Puerto Rico.