The trial that’s going to wipe out Donald Trump is starting, and he’s completely out to lunch

Today marks the start of a civil fraud trial that Donald Trump has already officially lost before it began. This trial is going to wipe him out financially, leaving him broke heading into his four criminal trials. If you’re wondering how Trump has trying to prepare for today’s civil trial, suffice it to say that he hasn’t been trying. At all.

On Sunday, Trump slurred his way through a speech during which – this is really true – he warned about the dangers of getting electrocuted on a sinking boat but then insisted he’d rather get electrocuted than eaten by a shark. He spent the rest of the day making social media posts complaining about golf. In the previous days Trump insisted that everyone in Beverly Hills smells bad because they’re not allowed to take long showers.

It’s not just that Donald Trump has been failing to focus on today’s very serious trial. It’s that he’s clearly not in any sort of cognitive condition to even understand what’s going on. Trump is now at a Rudy Giuliani level of incoherent senility. Trump is perhaps even further gone than Giuliani at this point. And Giuliani has a potato for a brain.

One thing is for certain: Trump’s cognitive condition is declining at an accelerating rate. Over the past few weeks – particularly since the civil fraud trial summary judgment came down – Trump has been completely cracking up. This is a guy who stops in the middle of a talking point about renewable energy and declares that he’d rather get electrocuted than eaten by a shark. He’s simply gone.