Donald Trump was beaten by Vice President Kamala Harris in the last presidential debate, and has since then spiraled down a bad path, resulting in him following his worst political instincts, according to a reporter.
Trump since the debate has spouted off conspiracy theories and focused on things that the voters care about the least, according to Dan Balz, chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency, and Congress for the Washington Post.
Balz reported on Sunday that Trump is known for how he "rewrites history — or makes it up entirely — to aggrandize himself, denigrate others and spread the basest of lies."
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"Former president Donald Trump has long inhabited a bizarre world of his own creation," Balz wrote of the Washington Post over the weekend. "It keeps getting worse."
Balz continues:
"Since Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he’s spiraled ever deeper into conspiracy theories, falsehoods and grievances. He insists he is not a loser. He never lost the 2020 election, he says falsely, and he certainly didn’t lose that debate in Philadelphia. He claims victory in an event in which he spent 90 minutes chasing Harris’s barbs down every possible rabbit hole. He rarely managed to get off the defensive long enough to make a case against her — and when he did, he was barely coherent."
Balz's point is reinforced by the fact that, also on Sunday, Trump took to his social media network, Truth Social, to attack the New York Times and billionaire pop singer Taylor Swift.
"I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" the former president wrote.
Trump has also recently been spreading false claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of local residents in Springfield, Ohio.
According to Balz, Trump simply "can’t accept the widely held verdict that Harris outdid him, just like he couldn’t accept that President Joe Biden defeated him four years ago."
"On Friday night, during a rally in Las Vegas that was replete with baseless claims about a variety of topics, he spun up the tale that Harris was receiving the questions during the debate," the correspondent wrote. "Elevating a conspiracy theory that popped up on social media, he falsely claimed she had hearing devices in her earrings, that she was being coached on what to say in real time. He did it in classic Trump style, citing unspecified hearsay as proof."
