For someone who has been in and out of courts so many times, either as a defendant or as a plaintiff (and I don’t mean just since he ran for public office, but even much before that, pretty much his entire adult life), and as someone who claims to be the smartest person on the planet and a very “stable genius,” one would assume he must have learned, pretty early in his life, what to say and what not to say when there is a pending or prospective court case on subject matter. That does not seem to be the case for the current occupant of the White House.

Take, for example, his recent law suit against the Wall Street Journal. All he needed to say was that the letter with the doodle was not his, or that he did not write that letter or draw that doodle. But no, he couldn’t shut up and had to continue to say that he never “wrote” a picture. Assuming what he meant was that he never “drew” a picture, it can be easily disputed based on a number of his hand-drawn pictures of buildings or city skylines that have been sold in auctions, or his bragging about them in one of the books that was ghost written for him.

This is by no means the first time he demonstrated his lack of ability to shut up. The entire defamation lawsuits that he lost to E. Jean Carroll hinged upon this character of his, and the fact that he simply could not stop making public claims that he never met her, and that she was so ugly and not her type, etc, possibly just to get a few laughs from his blind supporters in his rallies. They of course have cost him dearly, to the tune of close of $90M in judgements and possibly with interest still being accumulated as he keeps appealing and losing.

This lack of self-control and apparent ignorance to the basic rules of litigations considering his litigious nature, makes one wonder whether these are the signs of old age or maybe he suffers from a learning disability. And if one were looking for hereditary signs of learning disabilities, the unhinged social media posts by Don Jr, and endless rants by Eric Trump in his interviews with Fox where he repeats the phrase “my father” probably more than the number of verbs in his statements are certainly no very helpful.

But there might be another explanation to the above behavior, which also explains several other mysteries in his strange behaviors. I believe he might be stuck in a world that lies between the “reality” and what is referred to as “reality TV”, as in reality TV shows. One such “reality” TV shows was the Apprentice which finally provided a steady income for him outside stiffing contractors. He seems to be caught up in self-delusion resulting from his portrayal as a successful businessman in that show, while his businesses were mostly failures (remember Trump Airlines, Trump Steaks, or Trump Casino in Atlantic City?), and engulfed with bankruptcies (six of them, apparently). What he must have learned from that show is that it doesn’t matter what the reality is. What matters is how something is presented to the public, e.g., as part of a reality TV show. If people believe that, it will be the new reality.

Unfortunately, with all the sycophant lawyers he has surrounded himself with, including Alina Habba, Tod Blanche, Emil Bove, and the like, none of his lawyers would also correct him and tell him that public sentiment has no place in a courtroom and cannot be presented as an evidence. In fact, if you go back and check some of the filings and motions by these lawyers of his, you might find very thinly veiled references to public sentiment as evidence presented to a court of law.

Finally, as I mentioned above, the above hypothesis also explains some of his other bizarre behaviors, e.g., his recent claims that the Epstein client list was written by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Comey, and Brennan. He probably genuinely believes that if his supporters believe this, that will be a new reality (and mind you, he thinks so little of his supporters that he thinks they will believe this BS) without actually thinking through that if that were the case, and that they did it to hurt him, why they went through that trouble without ever making it public, defeating their alleged purpose of doing that? Or when this collusion and “crime” really happened? Or why Comey, a lifelong Republican who most likely cost Hillary Clinton a presidential election, would collaborate with her in such a scheme? He really doesn’t care about these details (or is not capable of thinking through this much). All he wants is his naïve supporters to believe his BS and stop talking about Epstein. And to make that happen, he resorts to the most outrageous stunts and claims, as they would do in a reality TV show.

One would wish the ridiculous claims would end here, but he obviously cannot stop doubling down on his egregious claims. Instead he posts AI-generated videos of him and Obama in the White House in which FBI agents arrest and take Obama away while he smiles. At this point, I am really not sure whether he actually understands that it is a fake AI-generated video or it is real. His constant claims of Obama, Clinton, Biden, and pretty much any Democrat being criminals without evidence (while himself carrying 34 felony convictions) does not help much with this either. Maybe the amount of lies he has spewed over so many years has morphed his brain into a form in which there is really no boundary between “reality” and “reality TV.”