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orleans

(36,050 posts)
Mon May 26, 2025, 12:15 AM Monday

"TRUMP MENTAL ILLNESS CRISIS - AND COVER-UP - WORSENS - 5.26.25"

https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/trump-mental-illness-crisis-and-cover-up-worsens-5-26-25


THE TRUMP MENTAL ILLNESS CRISIS (AND COVER-UP) WORSENS Telling West Point grads when to get a trophy wife? Demanding a cut of Harvard tuition? He's nuts yet media is fixated on Biden's slip to B-

AND Jake Tapper's Biden book is in trouble

NEW Countdown Podcast drops at MIDNIGHT

Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) 2025-05-25T20:24:51.684Z




This kind of reality detachment, in such different venues, on such different topics, from turning the West Point graduation ceremony into advice on when to marry a trophy wife to demanding somebody pay him a cut of what Harvard takes in tuition (and mistaking $52 Million for $52 Billion)... this kind of mental incapacity from any other president, at any other time – including Trump himself, seven or eight years ago – would have been greeted by wall-to-wall television and online coverage and banner newspaper headlines. Instead within 12 hours it was all forgotten so our national media could ignore the extinction-level-event crisis of a president gone fully insane, so it could return to regularly scheduled programming about how the PAST president wouldn’t instantly admit his acuity game had slipped to a B, B-minus.

The Trump Trophy Wife remark, to say nothing of the overnight demand of a taste of the tuition action at Harvard, vanished by the time the Sunday news shows hit. Including the Sunday news show hosted by Jake Tapper. ESPECIALLY the Sunday news show hosted by Jake Tapper. Also missing from Tapper's show – and the others – the reality that Tapper and his co-author, gossip writer Alex Thompson, are going to have to withdraw their book about President Biden’s acuity issues. From Politico, Semafor, Breaker, and other outlets comes the not-so-startling truth: these idiots fact checked next to nothing.

There's also an internal revolt against Tapper at CNN.

MEANWHILE: What the hell is wrong with Kristi Noem, and why is Harvard doing so well in fighting back against Trump while my old colleague Claire Shipman and Columbia are circling the drain?



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"TRUMP MENTAL ILLNESS CRISIS - AND COVER-UP - WORSENS - 5.26.25" (Original Post) orleans Monday OP
TY Kick.. Cha Monday #1
Has TAPPER heard about this?! UTUSN Monday #2
Recommended. H2O Man Monday #3
A stupid sociopath is definitely mentally ill. dchill Monday #4
Kicking this Hekate Monday #5
The trouble with calling the President mentally ill... Morbius Monday #6
Breathtakingly well-said by Olbermann. Paladin Monday #7
i'd love to see him w/his own show again but i love listening to these podcasts too. orleans Monday #8
TV is becoming an outdated medium, particularly cable GenThePerservering Tuesday #9

H2O Man

(76,843 posts)
3. Recommended.
Mon May 26, 2025, 12:54 AM
Monday

I do not think he is mentally ill. He is a sociopath, with features from Cluster B personality disorders. He is also aging, and we see a man reduced to participating almost exclusively in ceremonial events. These take up a few hours per day, at most, unless he is flying. His cognative abilities are reducing at the rate one would anticipate for a heavey-set man his age. If one comes the number of words and phrases he used in 2016 to 2025, one can accurately measure the decline.

At this point, Stephen Miller is the acting president.

Morbius

(511 posts)
6. The trouble with calling the President mentally ill...
Mon May 26, 2025, 05:15 AM
Monday

... is that illness can be treated. Sickness can be cured, often, and even when there is no cure there is treatment.

The wrongness which is in Donald Trump is going to remain there until he dies. There is no treatment. There is no cure for malignant narcissism, and my six decades on this planet have taught me that stupidity is forever. You can't fix stupid and if a man hasn't grown up in almost 78 years he is never going to do so.

Call out his mental incapacity, sure. But he's not sick. He's evil. There's a difference.

Paladin

(30,589 posts)
7. Breathtakingly well-said by Olbermann.
Mon May 26, 2025, 06:24 AM
Monday

There is nowhere nearly enough outrage being directed at the mainstream media's double-standard treatment of trump, and their non-stop trashing of Biden. And, oh yeah: Fuck Jake Tapper.

We need to get Olbermann back on the national scene with a TV show. We're in desperate need of his principled outrage, on a regular, conspicuous basis.

orleans

(36,050 posts)
8. i'd love to see him w/his own show again but i love listening to these podcasts too.
Mon May 26, 2025, 08:47 PM
Monday

he might reach a bigger audience on tv, but maybe not these days

GenThePerservering

(2,854 posts)
9. TV is becoming an outdated medium, particularly cable
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:26 AM
Tuesday

I think a podcast is the way to go, and the way to reach a younger audience, as well.

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