Trump Enters Final Sprint For White House An Unfocused Mess

Recent days have had him musing about his critics getting gunned down to reviving talk about Hannibal Lecter to declaring he never should have left office.

WASHINGTON ― In the final sprint toward Election Day, Donald Trump has mused about former congresswoman Liz Cheney as well as journalists covering his rallies getting gunned down, confirmed that he will put an anti-vax conspiracy theorist in charge of the government’s health care apparatus and explained that talking about a fictional serial killer proves his genius.

And that was all before he declared at a rally Sunday that he should have just stayed in office despite his 2020 election loss and failed coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021.

“The day that I left, I shouldn’t have left,” he said at a rally in Pennsylvania. “I mean, honestly, because we did so well.”

Trump did not elaborate on how, exactly, that might have worked. At noon on Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden became the new president and commander-in-chief. At that moment, Trump would have been a trespasser had he chosen to remain in the White House and subject to arrest.

Trump’s critics cite Trump’s advancing years ― he is now 78 ― and apparent mental decline as the cause for his inability to deliver a succinct closing message as to why voters should, despite everything, return him to office.