Well, here’s another example of my point that something has gone wrong with Trump ever since around October of 2020:

On Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social and launched an assault on his former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. He leveled accusations against her, claiming that she distorted poll figures during her appearance on Fox News.

““Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ [sic] McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on Fox News. I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up. While 25 is great, it’s not 34. She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll,” Trump wrote.“The RINOS & Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!”

Trump meant “milquetoast,” but it’s not his spelling that concerns me. It’s the weird inappropriateness of that particular moniker to describe the bold McEnany, not to mention turning on someone who was one of his biggest and most loyal champions. If she was a few points off on a poll – and I’m going to assume that she was – big deal. She can be corrected without a personal attack and an absurd nickname.

Another result of this kind of behavior on Trump’s part is that if by some miracle he were to be re-elected, I can’t imagine it would make a lot of people especially eager to serve under him. First of all, there’s the risk of prosecution, something that happened to quite a few of his previous associates. And then, at the first opportunity, these stupid attacks. And I submit that this is a particularly stupid attack on Trump’s part.

ADDENDUM: As to what I think motivates Trump to do this, I think he cannot get past what happened in 2020, plus the threat of so many prosecutions that hangs over him. He exhibits bravado about the latter, but it has to be stressful. Plus, he has always reacted strongly to anything he sees as a narcissistic wound and has always held to the principle that the best defense is a good offense. In the past, however, his instincts were better about this although hardly perfect. He’s getting older and I think he must be at least a little weary. In addition, I think something about his COVID illness experience or the treatment he got for it in October of 2020 (including a course of steroids) somehow may have affected him negatively as well, because I noticed a decline in his judgment shortly after that.

ADDENDUM II: It’s very interesting to read the comments at Instapundit on this topic, particularly the attempts to defend Trump versus the ones criticizing him.

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