The internet was stunned Tuesday as President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre speech at a press conference marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration.
Trump walked up to the podium at the White House press briefing room with a large stack of bound papers labeled "accomplishments" and started blaming former President Joe Biden, giving an unusual slideshow presentation show placards of alleged suspects wanted by ICE.
After about 40 minutes into the rambling speech, CNN cut away, with anchor Brianna Keilar calling it "pretty winding even by Trumpian standards." She pointed to the unusual demeanor of the president, reacting to the unusual moment.
People were shocked on social media and questioned the president's mental fitness.
"Anyone watching Donald Trump’s press conference? He’s completely deranged. It’s like he’s drunk," user Bafa Renitez wrote on X.
"Watching and listening to this this press briefing and I can’t fathom how anyone still believes Trump is fit for office. The stone cold silence from the 'press' in the room is deafening as Trump aimlessly rambles with exception of some soft, nervous laughter at his weird jokes," user Surfer Dude wrote on X.
"Trump knows he’s in trouble politically, probably doesn’t realize how incoherent he sounds. Starts the press conference on defense trying to justify the violence and brutality we are seeing in MN, attacking Biden and revising the 2020 election lie," CNN political commentator Karen Finney wrote on X.
"Donald Trump has spent the first 15 minutes of his year in review press conference flipping through pictures and mumbling to himself. I really have never seen anything like it," journalist Aaron Parnas wrote on X.
"Donald Trump could not point out a 'normal person' if they punched him in nose! This press conference is bulls---!! More gaslighting, more lies, more rampant blatant dangerous xenophobia! Yes, go take the murderers out and deport them! Sadly, that is not what Trump’s thug ICE agents are doing! Btw 'the Hispanics' don’t love you or support you Donald Trump!!" Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Maria Cardona wrote on X.
"This Trump press conference is a complete disaster. He’s rambling incoherently and flipping through a picture book of 'accomplishments' in front of the press. He’s clearly unwell. It’s getting really bad," Democratic influencer Harry Sisson wrote on X.
"This Trump press conference is excruciating. It’s like listening to an old drunk in a pub tell a tale. He knows he’s on tv right? He’s just talking absolute bollocks," user Gemma Bailey wrote on X.
"If Biden or Reagan had conducted a rambling, incoherent press conference like this, there would have been a rash of pieces about his cognitive decline and mental acuity. With Trump, it’s just another day at the office," author Nick Bryant wrote on X.
