Donald Trump, JD Vance and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walk into the Republican Party and take over.

That’s it. That’s the joke.

A presidential ticket that has futilely tried to shake the “weird” label became roughly 17 billion times more bananas late last week when Trump accepted Kennedy’s endorsement, shaking his hand onstage at an Arizona rally and hitching the GOP wagon to an insane conspiracy theorist, dangerous anti-vaxxer and noted dead-bear-cub-carcass hauler.

The “these guys are weird” memes, birthed by Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's description of Trump and Vance, are no match for the Republican Party’s new trifecta of wackadoodles.

What word captures a Trump/Vance/RFK Jr. triad? Cranks? Nutballs? Crackpots? Wingnuts?

While we try to imagine the heartburn this threesome is causing reasonable people standing in the remains of the Trump-bulldozed Republican Party, let’s break down the odd combo.

Kamala Harris has figured Trump out:DNC showed Harris campaign is dismissing the noise from Trump and pundits. It’s working.

At the top, of course, is Trump, whose bonkers-bonafides are well established. He still thinks he won the election he lost and his crowd sizes are always bigger than........

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