So, the Libidinous Visitor held a press availability a couple nights ago in Dubuque against a backdrop of good Iowa burghers who looked like the subjects of the Velveeta test kitchen. Most of the news today involves his jacking around with Jorge Ramos of Univision, casting him out of the Trumpian presence for the audacity of wanting to know what in the fk the Libidinous Visitor is talking about on the subject of immigration, and then inviting Ramos back in and offering to buy him lunch or something down the road. The Libidinous Visitor is one of the few people I've ever seen who can be arrogant and obsequious at the same time. It's like a parlor trick.

(And, as a former Univision employee myself, I am with you, Jorge. Venceremos, mi hermano!)

(And you may be asking yourself, "Self, I wonder what some real muttonheads think about it all." I live to serve.)

That episode already has been chewed into a fine paste, but I'd like to draw some attention to another portion of The Libidinous Visitor's performance. Simply posting it won't do it full justice, since the Seventh-Grade Sneering function on my computer is down at the moment, but I think you can get the nub of the Trumpian gist in this passage about his rivals, The Sunshine Boys from Florida.

Marco Rubio was not supposed to run…because his mentor in Florida…and all of a sudden, he decided to run and people thought it was very disrespectful to someone who had brought him along. If that were me, and I were Bush, and I brought someone along and I'm older than Marco, and all of a sudden, the young guy I brought along said, "I'm running against you and it's not my turn but I don't care because I'm really anxious." I would really go after that guy. I'd say he's the most disloyal guy and he's a terrible person. He's horrible and I hate him, OK? Or at least I'd say it to myself, OK? … So I saw them on a stage and Jeb is saying, "Oh, Marco is such a dear, dear friend of mine. He's such a wonderful person." And Marco is saying, "Oh, I love Jeb."…And I watch these two guys, and they're hugging and they're kissing…very much, actually, like Chris Christie and the president…

You see? Everybody else in politics except the Libidinous Visitor is a big gay fag, got it? And, as if to underline his point, he gave a shout-out to Ann Coulter, the crepuscular has-been who is his new BFF on immigration, but who made a nice living once by gay-baiting politicians. Harpies of a feather stick together.

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In other news, an interesting billboard has popped up in Colorado.

On Monday, activists revealed their latest political statement in support of Donald Trump. In the unusual billboard depicting of the Republican presidential candidate, he's traded in his designer suit for a coat of armor. The billboard is called Donald the Dragon Slayer. It features the Trump dressed up as a white knight ready for combat. He is holding a sword, labeled the Constitution, and is facing off against a dragon with scales and wings symbolizing everything from federal government agencies to "libtards" to "RINOs" (Republicans Only in Name.)

As you can imagine, the "activists" in question are a bunch of really swell humans.

"People are offended too easily these days and need to try to be more open minded," said cartoonist behind the billboard Paul Snover. Snover, with the financial backing of Arvid Mosmes, are known for their controversial political depiction of President Obama in a billboard put up in Grand Junction during the 2010 election season. The previous sign was criticized as racist, and portrayed the president as a Muslim, a homosexual and a Mexican bandito. "The first amendment allows us to say such things and present such things, and I think we have been stifled many times and many ways with political correctness," said Snover.

Mosnes is a real prize all on his lonesome, a Norwegian crackpot imported by the oil industry. Maybe, when he gets done building his wall, the Libidinous Visitor can run Mosnes' sorry ass out of the country and back up a fjord where it belongs.

"I learned very early on that he had the mindset of a tyrant," Mosnes said Monday. "We have all the tyrants in Africa, we have them in South America, we had them in Hitler Germany. It's the same rhetoric, it's the same danger, it's the same mindset, and he scared the living daylights out of me. He's all about me, myself and I, and that's the first danger," Mosnes added. "He's calculated and he's extremely dangerous. He will ruin this country. He is the worst danger to Western civilization since World War II." But the 51-year-old Libertarian, who has lived in the United States for the past decade working as a consultant for oil and gas drillers, said he can't point to any specific thing that proves Obama is everything he says. "You have to understand where he comes from and how he does his trickery," Mosnes said. "He's a hoax, he's a phoney. It's kind of a subtle, it's almost, you either see it or you don't."

(By the way, one head of the dragon that Trump is "slaying" on that billboard is the liberal media. This probably wasn't the best day for that metaphor.)

This is what the Summer of Trump is doing. These are the people it is mainstreaming. These are the ideas to which it is bringing new energy. Taibbi's right. Joke's over.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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