It’s still Monday evening, and I’ve just sat down to write this, the first of my literary masterpieces for tomorrow’s blog posts. Since I’m operating on a total of 2-1/2 hours of sleep since yesterday noon — that’s 33 hours ago and counting — I’m not entirely conscious of what I’m doing or saying.

Sunday night was one of those nights — restless legs, aching back, nagging bladder. I had gone to bed around 2:30 a.m., and after six hours of staring into the dark, I decided I couldn’t stand counting another revolution of the ceiling fan. So I got up around 8:30, came into the den, and began writing. Somewhere in the early afternoon, I did doze off for a couple of hours, but that’s about it.

How I managed to string together more than three coherent words is a total mystery. In fact, I only realized a couple of hours ago that I’ve actually issued five posts on a variety of subjects since midnight (some 21 hours ago) — a new record for me. And I have no idea where all that productivity came from. Maybe I should pull more all-nighters.

Unfortunately, though, that left me with nothing of great interest upon which to expound for Tuesday . . . until I saw Rex Huppke’s Facebook page with a link to his USA Today article detailing some of Donald Trump’s verbal garbage from his four-day Scottish boondoggle. And reading that, I was thrilled and relieved to have confirmation that I make more sense on 2-1/2 hours of sleep than Trump does on an average day.

I would never presume to try to enlarge upon Mr. Huppke’s writing; he is a master of wit, wisdom, and hyperbole. But he included direct quotes from Trump’s little rosebud lips that are too good not to repeat . . . so good, in fact, that they need no commentary from me.

So, without further ado, I give you bits and pieces of The Gospel According to Saint Trump (compliments of Rex Huppke, USA Today, July 28, 2025):

Upon arriving in Scotland, July 25th: “This immigration is killing Europe. And the other thing, stop the windmills killing the beauty of your countries.”

Monologue delivered to EC President Ursula von der Leyen, July 27th: “And the other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States, they’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains. And I’m not talking about airplanes, I’m talking about beautiful plains, beautiful areas of the United States, and you look up and you see windmills all over the place, it’s a horrible thing. It’s the most expensive form of energy; it’s no good. They’re made in China, almost all of them. When they start to rust and rot in eight years, you can’t really turn them off, you can’t bury them, they won’t let you. But the propellers, the props, because they’re a certain type of fiber that doesn’t go well with the land, that’s what they say. The environmentalists say you can’t bury them because the fiber doesn’t go well with the land; in other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil. The whole thing is a con job.”

Same day, different diatribe, also to Ursula von der Leyen: “That whole place is a mess. The Gaza Strip, you know, was given many years ago, said that they could have peace. That didn’t work out too well. When Israel gave that up, whoever was the prime minister at the time, who I know, who it was, but it was not exactly a very clever thing to do. Because that was given so that they finally have peace, but it’s actually made the situation worse. But we’ll see what happens. I think Iran is acting up. We have a lot of people acting, we have Venezuela acting up in a different way. They continue to send people that we rebuff to our border. They continue to send drugs into our country, Venezuela. They’ve been very nasty.”

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Honestly, you can’t make this s**t up. And as I read it, one thought came to my mind . . . which, of course, Mr. Huppke said first, and better. So I’ll just quote his closing sentence, and hope he doesn’t mind . . . because, once again, he nails it:

“Had Joe Biden said something like that when he was president, Republicans would have either impeached him or ordered him locked in a room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.” [Id.]

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
7/29/25