Trump's phone interview w/ Maria Bartiromo was so bizarre she cut it short

Trump's presidency is showing visible signs of collapse. A bizarre phone interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News had to be cut short after Trump couldn't stay on topic, couldn't answer direct questions, and rambled about naming the Gulf of Mexico after himself in the middle of discussing the Iran war. Hours earlier, his entrance at UFC 327 in Miami drew a muted, mixed reaction from a crowd that used to be his strongest base. And in Hungary, Viktor Orban, the authoritarian leader Trump personally backed, lost in a historic landslide with the highest voter turnout since the fall of Communism.The Breakdown:Trump confirmed a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz during a phone interview with Maria Bartiromo that had to be cut short because he could not stop talking or stay on topicHe rambled about "computerized bullets," lasers that melt drones, and a submarine called the Salamani before admitting gas prices could go "a little bit higher" while Fox displayed $4.12 per gallon on screenTrump detoured into wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico "the Gulf of Trump" in the middle of a conversation about blockading a critical waterwayHe called the 2020 election "rigged" on the network that paid $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for spreading those exact lies, and Bartiromo responded "Yup"At a late-night tarmac appearance at Joint Base Andrews, Trump said Iran's "whole navy is underwater," attacked Pope Leo, called NATO allies disappointing, and suggested decades of guarding against Russia was "a little ridiculous"Trump invoked Neville Chamberlain against the UK for not supporting his Iran war despite being the president who pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and spent years praising Putin, exchanging "love letters" with Kim Jong Un, and calling Orban "a fantastic man"His entrance at UFC 327 in Miami drew a muted reaction compared to the electric crowd at the same venue in 2025, with witnesses describing booing and Trump looking "like he had been crying"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lost the election in a historic landslide after 16 years in power, with 77 percent voter turnout and the opposition winning a supermajority of 138 out of 199 seatsThe full weight of the American government had backed Orban, with Trump offering "the full economic might of the United States" and JD Vance standing on Orban's stage days before the votePeter Magyar's Tisza party won with a mandate to rewrite the constitution, telling supporters "Together we replaced the Orban regime, together we liberated Hungary"Trump called the free press "almost treasonous," naming CNN, ABC, and NBC directly, continuing the authoritarian playbook of discrediting, delegitimizing, and dismantling independent media