In 2018, author and linguist Dr. Andy Curtis called Trump 45 “the most famous liar in the world today.”
Last night, Trump 47 offered more proof, as if it were needed, that the title is still his.
“Given the sheer number of lies told by the 45th President of the USA, it should be no surprise that he lies about lying,” Curtis wrote. Trump kept it up in his “address to the nation.”
Trump is, by far, the most unhinged of all presidents. But he was especially delusional, manic, raging, and raving on Hump Day evening. For some 20 pause-less, spittle-flecked minutes, the president yelled and spewed rapid-fire run-on sentences in a mad mix of careening nonsense and non sequiturs.
He was a crazed infomercial host on speed, Nero minus his fiddle, Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg on the stand. I could almost hear the clack-clack-clack of the captain’s ball bearings in Trump’s teeny-weenie hands. I halfway expected to hear Trump blame Biden for the notorious strawberry heist aboard the not-so-good ship Caine.
I can’t wait for the Saturday Night cold opening on this latest lunacy from DJT — and for the feckless fawning of the MAGA lickspittles who will try to top each other likening him to history’s greatest orator-statesmen. The emperor’s duds are oh-so dazzling. Oh wait – THIS JUST IN: The ever oleaginous Newton Leroy Gingrich truckled, “To watch President Donald Trump give a 19-minute disciplined speech that covered many facts was worthy of [former President] Ronald Reagan.” Gingrich’s gush is in a HuffPost story headlined, “Newt Gingrich’s ‘Gaslighting’ Spin On Trump Speech Has Critics saying ‘OMFG’.”
Meanwhile, some of my Facebook friends didn’t consider Trump’s tirade must-see TV.
“It’s so bad I’m watching Vanderbilt and Memphis basketball!” Jeff Wiggins, one of my old union buddies, posted. Jim Key, another longtime union buddy, posted, “I never turned on the TV … wrapping Christmas Presents for my family.”
Harrumphed my fellow Carlisle Countian Jeanne Grogan: “I didn’t waste my time listening – apart from being off his rocker, his grammar drives me even crazier.”
Todd Hill, a retired Murray State music prof, mused, “How does one even begin to parody what is already ridiculous on its own terms? Raving lunacy.”
From Susan Clinton: “He’s the PT Barnum of (male bovine, smiley excrement emoji combo).”
Elsewhere in America, most reviews are less than rave. Here’s a sampling:
“Why on earth did any network broadcast this?” wondered Arizona Republic media columnist Bill Goodykoontz in a piece headlined, “Trump’s brag-a-thon never should have aired.”
“From the start, when Trump, sounding rushed and angry, said, ‘I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it,’ it was nonstop bragging and blame, bragging and blame, bragging on himself, blaming Democrats – former President Joe Biden in particular,” he wrote. “It was every campaign boast, lie, and threat delivered as fast as he could fit them in (he only had so much time allotted on broadcast TV). It was like listening to a MAGA conspiracy podcast at 1.5 X speed.”
Time’s Senior Correspondent Philip Elliott recollected: “Every holiday season, mailboxes fill up with family letters from beloved aunts who tell us about the cousins’ developments, the vacations and pets, goals for the new year — all coated with as much sugar as their cookie trays.
“On Wednesday evening, the world was treated to President Donald Trump’s Christmas letter, delivered in a disjointed rant from the White House. It was a self-graded check-in, coming nearly one year into office as the public is increasingly skeptical about what they signed up for when they gave Trump the keys to the White House for a second time. And unlike his position when the year started, Trump now seems to have lost control over his Republican Party, as more lawmakers are starting to realize the prices they might pay for their continued defense of Trump on health care costs, political retribution, economic recovery, even files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
On Bluesky, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin followed up Trump’s tirade with a prediction: “Tonight, Donald Trump tried to sell us all a shit sandwich, desperate to convince the American people that he isn’t a complete and utter failure. He’s lost the economy. He’s lost his mind. And next year, he’s going to lose the midterms.”
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A footnote: Before his Bluesky prognostication, Martin recognized Kentucky’s brand new state senator-elect: “I’d like to give a big congratulations to Gary Clemons, who won his race for the Kentucky State Senate in a 47-point landslide! This marks Democrats’ 227th election win or over-performance in 2025. This win speaks to the power of organizing everywhere.”
A Democrat, Clemons was a pro at organizing before he tossed his hat in the ring for Tuesday’s District 37 special election. He’s president of Louisville United Steelworkers Local 1693.
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