What On Earth Did We Just See?

Charlie Sykes: “Normally, I’d rather be eaten by fire ants than sit through a Trump press conference, but on Thursday, I made the poor life choice of listening to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago performance.”

“My quick take: What, in the name of all that is holy, rational, and coherent did we just listen to?”

“Most media accounts do not come close to capturing the wretched shambolism of it all, and some reporters scrabbled desperately for nuggets of coherence in the former president’s rolling gibberish…”

“If this had been Joe Biden, the media would have been on fire with speculation and about his cognitive decline and mental health. If Kamala Harris turned in a performance even remotely like this, it would be regarded as a full-on disaster. But since this is Trump, it’s just another Thursday.”

Chris Hayes: “This is the kind of performance from Trump that, if the Republican party was still a functioning institution, would have a lot of people panicked and wondering about how to get him to drop out.”