Oh God. The reality TV guy thinks TV is reality.

Are his handlers showing him old riot footage?

It's called dementia, Mr. President.

So he asked if what he was told by others was correct, almost certainly was told it was wrong by the actual Governor that would know firsthand... And still decided to send the military based on the lie.

This proves an intent to ignore reality, not just decisions based on misinformation provided.

I thought the design of the national guard was that it reported to the governor of the state, not the president.

I thought the entire point of the national guard was to oppose tyrannical actions by federal government, and that it was never intended to be handed over to federal control without approval from said governor or some truly special circumstances like a real invasion.

The federal government was originally intended to not have a substantial standing army. The national guard was intended to be our army and effectively independent per state so that only the states' wishes of a combined force would be honored.

Little late to be asking that for the first time now, Donald. Is this that thing where old people have a brief flash of sanity before they go out forever?

Trump certainly has gone senile and he's being manipulated. Remember, Trump is merely the front and the fall guy, the real power pulling the strings are the oligarchs who bankrolled him.

We must spend millions to stop this antifa banana. He’s an immediate threat to national security. The sax looks shifty too. I’m worried his IQ may be even higher than our own president. Send in the seals!

JFC, all of this is just so very stupid.

He really is the average Faux viewer manifested as President. So many of those fucking idiots think that BLM/antifa literally burned cities to the ground.

Is he becoming self aware for the first time?

He's a complete puppet who has no idea what's going on. A figurehead who believes whatever the fascist regime tells him and signs whatever executive orders they put before him. They still need him because the cult base is what keeps them in power-, otherwise he'd already be gone. What will they do when he dies or can't go out in public any more? I'm not sure if they know, but I think once the midterms are over and once they believe they've cemented their power they'll get rid of him in a heartbeat.