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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

The charm of Trump's "weave" beyond MAGA

Is Donald Trump losing it for real this time? That's a question being asked and answered all over social media and cable news this week in the wake of his bizarre performance in Pennsylvania on Monday night. I know his weird behavior is something we're all very aware of and also unfortunately aware that it has been normalized over the past few years to the point that it hardly even gets mentioned by the mainstream media much less analyzed with the same focus and fervor given to Joe Biden's verbal stumbles or Hillary Clinton's emails. But Monday night's very eccentric performance even got the Washington Post's attention. The paper described it with this headline: "Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode"

After the Trump campaign left thousands of people stranded in the desert in the middle of the night following his Coachella, California, rally over the weekend, they once again dropped the ball by holding his crowded Oak, Pennsylvania, town hall in a venue without air conditioning, and a couple of people fainted shortly after it began. (Trump later posted on his social media site that they fainted from the excitement. He really does think he's Elvis.)

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