So this rally in Florida on Tuesday night.
“Did anyone ever see the lovely movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? Did you ever see it? Did you ever hear of Hannibal Lecter? He was a lovely...He would love to have you for dinner. He will take you. He had many people for dinner....We have a lot of people coming in. ‘Oh, that’s terrible what Trump would say. He is rambling about Hannibal Lecter.’ No, I’m not rambling. We are allowing people from insane asylums and mental institutions into our country by the tens of thousands.”
And...
“We don’t eat bacon anymore.”
And...
“Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp…and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess....You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”
And...
“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. But rather it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world....Right now, if you leave Florida, ‘Oh, let’s go, darling, let’s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let’s look at the Washington Monument, let’s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes,’ and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped.”
The presidential candidate whose mental acuity has not been the obsession of the national political media for the past two weeks appears to have a firm command of reality.
