In the press conference, Trump said he does not have a lot of respect for Kamala Harris and he thinks that she would be a terrible president — making it a personal attack against which Republicans are cautioning him. ““And whether the personal attacks are good, bad — she certainly attacks me personally. She actually called me weird,” Trump said.
‘Donald Trump is deeply unhinged’
Donald Trump biographer Tim O’Brien this week — before yesterday’s press conference — said Trump’s behavior is increasingly becoming weird which is a warning sign that he doesn’t belong in the White House. “This is the nominee of the Republican Party and he is deeply unhinged and he is getting worse,” O’Brien told MSNBC. “His hearing appears to be getting worse, he’s slurring his speech, and he aspires to lead the most powerful nation on the planet.”
Why Trump refers to Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter is a character created by Thomas Harris featured in books like Hannibal, Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs — and also Trump’s speeches. “They hate when I use Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The late, great Hannibal Lecter,” Trump said in Atlanta rally referring to media as ‘they’.
O’Brien said Donald Trump probably thinks migrants seeking asylum belong in insane asylums and Hannibal Lecter was in an asylum and Trump can’t distinguish between the two. But O’Brien said Trump is all about 1980s and probably his fondness for Lecter is because of that reason.