President Donald Trump gave a long—and very ponderous—press conference Tuesday, stepping in for propaganda princess Karoline Leavitt.
At one point in his incoherent rant, Trump launched into a reverie about reviving archaic “mental institutions” with “bars on the windows.” Yes, really.
He went on to blame Democrats for the deinstitutionalization of the 1970s and 1980s, saying it caused many people to become homeless.
But as psychiatric treatments improved, Creedmoor—like most state-run mental health facilities—saw a decline in its number of patients.
But after blaming Democrats for the end of an older, more barbaric era in mental health care, Trump circled back to his childhood memories.