We've grown accustomed, now, to watching the President of the United States say things that don't make any sense, or don't add up, or are comically false, or are insidiously false, or are quite literally incomprehensible. It happens all the time. It happens pretty much every day. After all, the Washington Post assessed this week that Donald Trump, American president, has said something false in public 22 times a day over the last 200 days. The question is most often whether he knows what's true and says something else—a lie—or whether he genuinely has any grasp on what's real in the first place.

After all, the president seems preternaturally adept at constructing new worlds to escape into when the walls start to close in and the ceiling is teetering towards collapse on an old one. He does not subscribe to the idea there are immutable contours of our reality, hard truths you cannot bend or mold to meet your needs and desires. The truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe, and that's a lot easier to do when you start with yourself. Or maybe he's just blathering on, like he did this Tuesday afternoon.

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Trump just said "my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany." Fred Trump was born in New York. pic.twitter.com/U6eWYPzjrJ — Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher (@tommyxtopher) April 2, 2019

As Daniel Dale soon pointed out on the Tweet Machine, this is the third (3) time the president has said his father was born on a different continent from where he was born. People have already started in on the birther jokes, referencing Trump's racist campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama's presidency and Otherize him by suggesting he was born in Kenya. But there's an actual pressing question here: does Trump know his father was actually born in New York? If so, why is he lying about it? And if he doesn't know, where does that leave us? He said here that "one-to-two percent" of individuals show up for their immigration hearings. In reality, in 2017, it was 72 percent.

Elsewhere, he embarked on a rant about The Rigged Witch Hunt By Robert Mueller's 12 Angry Democrats Which Completely Exonerated Me.

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Wow -- Trump repeatedly mangles the word "origins," on three separate occasions saying "oranges" instead. 😳 pic.twitter.com/EZggYhIAO7 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2019

He tried to say "origins," but he misspoke. He clarified with "beginnings," and by saying "start" about 246 times. But why did he keep going back to try it again, only to say "oranges" every time? It might seem like another innocuous fruit-related slip-of-the-tongue, but like Tim Apple, you have to wonder whether everything's A-OK upstairs. I mean, this was last month:

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SNL made a montage of Trump's CPAC speech and it's nuts pic.twitter.com/t5MSYPU0P3 — Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) March 3, 2019

This is the same guy, after all, who is rooting for a federal court to strike down the Affordable Care Act, knocking millions off their health coverage, so he can replace it with...a secret plan, which doesn't exist, which won't be developed until after the 2020 elections. Good luck if you get sick in between! Oh, and while he likes the judges who might spike his hated predecessor's signature law, he's got a different attitude towards immigration judges.

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TRUMP threatens to close border with Mexico as soon as this weekend, then rants about immigration during Oval Office meeting with NATO secretary general: "What we have to do is Congress has to meet quickly & make a deal... to be honest with you, we have to get rid of judges." pic.twitter.com/DAbeXVXUIK — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2019

Maybe we don't treat anything this guy says as Normal President Talk?

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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