Follow the money on Dr. Trump’s medicine show: Is it paranoid to suspect the president is working a side hustle? That’s basically all he’s got

Donald Trump only cares about Donald Trump. He doesn’t care about you or the country. He only cares about exploiting this crisis to bail out his business and to get himself re-elected, thereby shielding himself from a series of indictments that surely await him if he loses. The sooner we embrace this easily-observable fact about Trump, the better equipped we’ll be to evaluate his decisions during these overlapping health and financial calamities.

The “Trump is all about Trump” maxim goes a long way to explaining his obsessive beer-funneling of a malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine down the gullets of COVID-19 victims.

So far, there have been two public appearances by Trump that have genuinely rattled me. There was his seemingly endless and deeply disturbing CPAC address in early March of 2019: a herky-jerky, stream-of-consciousness creepshow — a Willy Wonka ride into the dark, twisted world of Trump’s increasingly haunted and demented brain. I’ve never seen a presidential speech more harrowing and unnerving than that one … until the Saturday, April 4, episode of the Trump Show. Continue reading.