"Had Joe Biden stood on stage for 33 seconds saying nothing, looking off to the side, his face occasionally straining, there would be nonstop coverage by the major media citing it as evidence of poor mental health. They would certainly demand to know what’s wrong with him. But the media is giving Trump a pass on this."
Jay Kuo interviews John Gartner, founder of Duty To Warn, a group of mental health professionals who have been raising the alarm about Trump’s increasingly sociopathic behavior since 2017. Gartner says he couldn't believe his eyes at what the press did after Biden became president: he states,
"Day after day the press was gaslighting the American people: Pathologizing Biden’s normal signs of aging, such as forgetting names, and normalizing Trump’s flagrant signs of dementia. That false narrative was having a real impact on the polls, and no one with the right letters after their name was stepping in to correct the record."
"Pathologizing Biden’s normal aging is the first lie. Normalizing Trump’s dementia is the second. The sorts of small lapses we’ve seen in Biden are part and parcel of normal aging. …
The evidence for Trump’s dementia is this: Trump shows an overall decline from his own cognitive baseline, with marked progressive deterioration in 4 areas: memory, ability to use language, behavior, and gross and fine motor skills."
Scott Dworkin interviews Dr. Bandy X Lee, who states,
“Since the very beginning, I had warned that this was a public health problem where his psychological dangers will translate into social, cultural, political, and civic dangers if we did not contain it. And that’s what we are seeing today. And what I have been calling the Trump contagion, has only been allowed to spread.”
"Trump’s appearance in Georgia … reflected a man not rooted in any kind of reality, one who struggled to remember his words and who was, by any definition, incoherent, disconnected, and frequently malicious. …
Watch his speeches. Share them widely. Don’t look away."
Get 'em while they're hot! Because the mainstream media are not going to focus on Trump's very evident and increasing mental deterioration and verbal gaffes.
"Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.
'Phonemic paraphasias' —the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s.
Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes 'benefishes.' Renovations become 'renoversh.' Pivotal became 'pivobal.'"
"Obama became 'obamna.' Missiles became 'mishiz.' Christmas became 'Crissus.' Bipartisan became 'bipars.' …
Trump also engages in what we call ;tangential speech.' He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step not being, but of severe cognitive deterioration."
"What I don’t understand is why those clips aren’t replayed over and over in the mainstream media. Isn’t Trump babbling incoherently the most newsworthy part of his rally? You can be sure it would be if it were Biden."
"A story that is not getting the attention it deserves is a campaign appearance by Trump on Friday filled with nonsense phrases, slurred words, and factual mistakes about historical events. If Biden had made one-tenth of those miscues in a speech, chicken-little voices in the Democratic Party would be talking about invoking the 25th amendment to remove Biden from the presidency."
"And yet, the story is receiving no coverage in the mainstream press.
Professor Laurence Tribe commented on Trump's latest speech by saying,
'I have to believe that, when enough people hear how totally unhinged Trump has become, any worries about Biden not being at the top of his game will just evaporate.'"
"Compared to 'crazy,' it doesn’t take much to demonstrate competence and normalcy. And Trump is about to show the world what crazy really means as he is challenged by a strong woman who is not afraid to mock his insecurity and weaknesses."
"With Trump's rivals in both the primary and general elections highlighting Trump's inability to distinguish between his GOP primary opponent (Nikki Haley) and the former Democratic Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi), responsible media should be headlining the story.
They are not. Instead, it was up to Trump's political rivals to alert the American people to Trump's deteriorating condition."
"Donald Trump is losing It. Will the media make it a story?
The media’s obsessions with the mental acuity of our presidential candidates seems dangerously one-sided."
~ Michael Tomasky
As Michael Tomasky says, if Biden had confused Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, can you imagine the media frenzy that would ensue? (Or if Biden and his wife arrived in separate cars for the funeral of her mother….)
"Nikki Haley finally said out loud on Saturday what many of us have been screaming about: Donald Trump’s cognitive decline cannot be ignored. … Given Trump won last week’s Iowa GOP caucus and is well positioned to wrap up the GOP presidential nomination over the next few months, it’s imperative that the media robustly address this issue...."
Heather Cox Richardson reports what Trump just told a rally in NH:
“By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6th. You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security."
“Trump continues his deranged authoritarian outbursts, which, due to the ‘banality of crazy,’ will garner virtually no mainstream coverage. Americans deserve to know this stuff. Trump’s authoritarianism is the most important political story in America—and nothing else is close.”
"America’s leading mental health professionals have concluded that Donald Trump is mentally unwell, and likely a sociopath — if not a psychopath. In even more direct terms, Trump has shown himself to apparently have a diseased mind, which in turn amplifies his already corrupt morality and ethics, attraction to violence, and overall capacity for evil."
"The most oft-repeated criticism of Biden is his advanced age, even though Trump is just behind him and showing far greater signs of cognitive decline, making it difficult for Trump to use this line of attack."
As Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan, and Daniel Strauss, note, Trump has recently said that Biden could plunge the world into WWII — it ended in 1945 — and has stated that he (Trump) is leading Obama in polls. He has said that Viktor Orbán is prime minister of Turkey, and recently confused Jeb and George W. Bush.
But Biden's the one whose age and mental acuity we need to be concered about?!