Keith Boykin: Trump is losing it

Former US president, Donald Trump, speaking in Detroit in 2024.& Geopix/Alamy “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black,& examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. Last week in New Jersey, Trump tricked reporters into covering a “press conference” that turned out to be a lengthy speech to his supporters at his golf course. Low-energy Trump read from a thick binder that included a string of outrageous lies, including the ridiculous claim that more than 100 percent of new jobs created in the U.S. are going to migrants.& More than 100 percent!& After telling& 162 lies& at his disastrous press conference last week at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s advisers decided to keep him carefully scripted this time, but eventually Trump got bored with his own speech and started going off script to appease his fans. It went on for nearly an hour before he finally took a few softball questions. Will he stop the personal insults against Harris? No. “I think I’m entitled to personal attacks,” Trump said. There is no reboot with Trump. It didn’t happen after the assassination attempt. It didn’t happen after the convention....