Confronting the Obvious and Ever-Present Insanity of Donald Trump

by | Apr 27, 2026 | Opinions & Commentary

Illustration by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien Illustration

Confronting the Obvious and Ever-Present Insanity of Donald Trump

by | Apr 27, 2026 | Opinions & Commentary

Illustration by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien Illustration

Confronting the problem of Trump starts with refusing to explain him away and trying somehow make his insanity seem logical.

One of the things that’s been driving people crazy over the past ten years is the plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face obviousness of Trump’s ever-increasing insanity being largely ignored.

If you were to run into someone on the street that speaks like Trump, has the same disjointed or non-existent logic, your first impulse is to get some distance from that person—as much distance as possible, actually.

Aberrant behaviors, nonsensical and non sequitur speech, inexplicable anger, ambitions to rule the world, bad smells—are all repellent to most people.

Yet Trump’s supporters all seem to be ready, able and willing to gloss over these points and even praise them. What gives? How can obvious looniness, callous disregard for humanity and general evil be regarded as no big deal?

Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do

The truth of the matter is that nonsensical actions, behavior and thought processes make people uncomfortable. And rather than just confront the fact that something is just plain nuts and there is a problem with the person or persons proposing these ideas, some people try to explain it away. The mental gymnastics in this effort are just staggering.

When circumstances are hard to confront—like let’s say a world-wide pandemic killing millions of people—people with poor confronting skills can gin up fantasies and call them “theories.” Someone thinks, “Hey maybe 5G is the cause of COVID.” Then the person thinks, well I thought of it, maybe someone else did too and shares that idea. Next thing you know this insane idea becomes an oft-repeated “fact.” And what do you know? This actually resulted in some crazies destroying cell towers that may or may not have been 5G.

Additional stupidity also proliferated like claims that COVID vaccines were just a way for Bill Gates to inject tiny chips in people to track them. Of course it did not occur to these folks that tracking chips were already literally in their hands—cell phones—while they were reading or posting those insane stories.

Just because an idiot posts a stupid idea and another fool shared it does not make it a fact—no matter how many times Trump claims he won in 2020. Of course in this latter example an evil and criminal intent was also involved.

F*ck You, Pay Me!

The next factor to understand is that the propensity of people to believe and share lies and manufactured “facts” can lead some people to riches.

A recent story about a medical student in India who needed tuition money is a great case in point. This student created a very fake yet very cute blonde with AI and shared images and right-wing messaging on social media platforms. He got millions of shares from the gullible crowd, made his tuition and then some before his scam became egg on everyone’s faces.

But it can actually get worse than this and quite deadly. During the height of the pandemic, Florida was suffering one of the highest death rates from COVID. Yet the governor, Ron DeSantis, was loudly campaigning against masks, social distancing and vaccine mandates. He claimed all these things were infringements on people rights. And if someone got sick with it they could simple go to the hospital and get monoclonal antibody infusions and they’d be fine. What he failed to reveal was that his largest campaign donor was also a major shareholder of a company that made this infusion drug and that it cost $2000 per dose—on top of the other associated costs of emergency care, which were astronomical.

You can find a lot of “popular” stupidities out there that seem to be spontaneous or “grassroots,” coming out of nowhere. But a more careful examination will find them being funded by someone who stands to make a profit from them. One example is the supposedly grassroots Tea Party Movement that sprang up to oppose any and all proposals by Obama and his administration. A cursory examination of their communications showed them to be very well funded and organized with much of their money coming from right wing political activist operations like Americans for Prosperity—which was funded by Charles and David Koch and others.

Images of “spontaneous” protests against masks and social distancing in Los Angeles showed people gathering around with pre-printed, graphic-designed protest signs. Even the spontaneity was fake. And it was the gullible running around carrying those signs, failing to notice that even the presence of the signs was something staggeringly illogical.

While this may seem far afield from our headline topic, it isn’t. About 1.2 million Americans died under Trump’s gross mishandling of the pandemic. More people, by percentage of population, died here than in any other country in the world. Yet, this man, whom everyone mistook as the president because he held the title, lied in every breath about how it was a hoax invented by Democrats in March of 2020. But as we found out six months later, he had been recorded telling Bob Woodward a few weeks earlier that he knew it was dangerous and that it was airborne. Woodward has the death of possibly hundreds of thousands of Americans on his hands for failing to reveal Trump’s lie immediately—but he apparently didn’t want to ruin his chances of using that lie to promote the book he was working on. See, financial interest.

The Liars in Our Lives

Our experience with Trump clearly shows that the lives of others mean absolutely nothing to him. Not even the health and lives of his supporters. Some of his most virulent supporters are now bankrupt, ruined or disbarred. A few cases in point, pillow huckster Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman. There are others, you know who they are. And these guys kissed his feet. The rest of us rate even less attention like the “suckers and losers” (his words) in the armed forces—as he throws them into the abject stupidity of war.

Yet some people are still content to explain him away. While prices at the pump rise. While the cost of groceries go up and up. While the cost of heating and cooling homes rises relentlessly. While he works to steal our tax money in broad daylight.

Trump is only still here because we have allowed it. We have not beaten down the doors to our representative’s offices in local districts or in D.C. We have not melted their phone lines. They have the power to remove him right now and uphold their oath to the Constitution and to us.

It starts with each of us saying, “I’m done. This is not okay with me.” “I will not accept explaining away insanity.”

You don’t have to explain it other than to acknowledge it as nuts. The end. And there begins the process of confronting it. And then you can force those responsible to do their jobs.

You all know the assignment. Let’s get to it.

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Marty Kassowitz

Marty Kassowitz

Marty Kassowitz is co-founder of Factkeepers. As founder of Interest Factory and View360, he brings more than 30 years experience in effective online communications, social media management, and platform development to the site. He is a writer, designer, editor and long time observer of the ill-logic demonstrated by too many members of the species known as Mankind. After a long history of somewhat private commentary on a subject he totally hates: politics, Marty was encouraged to build this site and put up his own analyses as well as curate relevant content from other sources.

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