Surely, Trump’s Wacko West Point Commencement Speech Proves He’s Mentally Unfit to Serve

Oh, The New York Times, you are a normalizing machine, you are, titling your article “Trump Administration Highlights: President Stresses New Era in Speech to West Point Graduates.” Here is the president stressing a new era to the Class of 2025. From the Independent:

Trump then pivoted to a discussion about real estate developer William Levitt, who is widely considered the inventor of the modern American suburb. Levitt died in 1994. “He was great at what he did,” Trump said of Levitt. “You see him all over the country, still Levittowns. This was a long time ago, but he was a first of the really, really big home builders, and he became very rich, a very rich man, and then he decided to sell.

“And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do. He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well, but it doesn’t—that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell ya. A lot of trophy wives.”

Here’s the president stressing a new era in how our future military leaders should regard our allies.

We’ve been ripped off at the NATO level. We’ve been ripped off like no country has ever been ripped off. But they don’t rip us off anymore. They’re not gonna rip us off anymore. And you’re seeing it. You have to watch what we’re doing on trade. I know it's not your primary thing, but it's quite important in all fairness

Here’s the president, stressing a new era in ... talking about old golfers.

So you can achieve something really amazing. Think big. Third though, you gotta do this. Uh, brainpower you have to have, potential you have to have, but to be really successful, you’re always going to have to work hard. An example is a great athlete, Gary Player. Great golfer. He wasn’t as big as the other men that were playing against him; great, big, strong guys.

Gary was a smaller guy. I don’t want to say too small. He is a friend of mine. He gets a little angry at people because he hits the ball just as far. He said, “I hit the ball further than them. Why am I small?” But he worked very, very hard. He was always doing exercise, he was always—he was well ahead of his time.

He never stopped. He won 168 golf tournaments. He won eighteen majors, nine regular, and nine on the senior tour. 18 with 168. That's the most tournaments, internationally the most tournaments anybody's ever won. But he made a statement years ago, and I heard it, I heard it. He’s the first one. I think I’ve heard it a couple of times since, but he was the first. He said, “It’s funny, the harder I work, the luckier I get.” And think of that, the harder I work, the luckier I get. And he worked hard, and you’re working hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you're gonna get.

(Not for nothing, but Gary Player was just few an inches shorter than Arnold Palmer and was nearly the same height as Lee Trevino, to name only two of his most spirited contemporary competitors. The president seems to believe he was Eddie Gaedel.)

Trophy wives and Gary Player. In front of the graduating class at West Point. Something is turning to tree-sap in the cabeza, folks. On the other hand, Joe Biden is pretty old.