Trump’s Angry, Crazed Eruption over Cognitive Test Backfires on Itself
On Air Force One, President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre, angry and rambling speech about the cognitive test he was supposed to have passed this weekend. Worse, he cognitively compared himself to two Democrats who both happen to be non-white women. This rant backfired on herself: it exposed her growing mental ineptitude, her outright racism, her efforts to normalize her belittling of non-white members of Congress and her continued attacks on democracy, and much more. In today’s episode, New Republic Editor Meredith Shiner, a regular critic of media coverage of this administration, paints a powerful picture of the horrors this administration is inflicting on ordinary people, including in Chicago, where she lives. She argues that the press should directly connect Trump’s mental decline to these real impacts by highlighting who is really running things behind the scenes, and discusses how Democrats could drive home the horrific human toll of it all. Listen to this episode here.
