There are large swathes of Americans who are not going to sit by idly and let President Donald Trump wreck the country. This Wednesday, following a particularly bizarre Trump interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, the anti-Trump conservative group known as The Lincoln Project published a brief recap, insisting that Trump is “crazy” and “unraveling” and admonishing observers to “wake up.” The specific segment of the interview that the group highlighted featured Trump claiming that people in “the dark shadows” are controlling Democratic presidential pick Joe Biden. It is entirely unclear what on earth he’s talking about.
In the clip, Ingraham asked Trump who he thinks is “pulling Biden’s strings.” Trump replied:
‘People that you’ve never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows… People that you haven’t heard of. They’re people that are on the streets. They’re people that are controlling the streets.’
CNN Fact-Checker: Trump's 'Dark Shadows' Claim Is 'Almost Too Stupid' To Debunk https://t.co/VY70wd72pk via @Yahoo
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 2, 2020
Again, it’s entirely unclear what on earth Trump is talking about or even thinks he’s talking about. “People that are controlling the streets”? What? Who does he think is controlling the streets? “Antifa”? Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, isn’t even a nationally centralized organization. It’s just a nickname for a diverse coalition of left-wing activists.
The story about unknown people in the "dark shadows" controlling all world leaders is less a "new conspiracy theory" and more like the starting template for all conspiracy theory narratives. https://t.co/qGBdz3pC57
— Travis View (@travis_view) September 1, 2020
In the Ingraham interview, Trump added:
‘We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane, it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that — they were on a plane.’
What on earth is he talking about? He’s talking somewhat like there was some small kernel of information that he stumbled across at some point and has now grown into a nonsensical web of paranoid rambling. How could people even get on a plane with the supposedly nefarious “gear” that Trump is talking about? Did he forget that the TSA exists? Watch the Lincoln Project video below:
He is crazy. He is unraveling.
Wake up. pic.twitter.com/YkhIl4FkUZ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 2, 2020
The interview moment spotlighted in the above video is not the only bizarre Trump behavior to go viral recently. Back in July, Trump went on a long-winded rant about rioters supposedly using, uh, big “bags of soup” to attack law enforcement personnel. It’s unclear what on earth he was talking about then, too.
Trump in July: And you have people coming over with bags of soup and the anarchists… start throwing it at our cops… And if it hits you, that’s worse than a brick because that’s got force… And when they get caught, they say, “No, this is just soup for my family.” pic.twitter.com/xs9tcY9aA5
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 1, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response to the new Lincoln Project video below:
