Trump Outrages: Report from Crazytown -- Co-opting the Media, and Riding Pentagon Pete
By Mort Kondracke
What accounts for Trump’s increasing craziness of late? His profanity-laden Easter Sunday threat against Iran: “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell. Praise be to Allah!” His threats minus profanity (“A whole civilization will die tonight…”) His accusations against Pope Leo XIV (“weak on crime,” “catering to the radical left,” “hurting the Catholic Church very badly… If I wasn’t in the White House, he wouldn’t be in the Vatican.”)
This was triggered by the Pope’s mild criticism of Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian civilization as “unacceptable.” And it hurt Trump more than the Pope, particularly among US Catholics (numbering 53 million adults, forming a swing vote that went 56% for Trump in 2024, slipped now to 49%.)
Then there was Trump posting an image of himself as Jesus (or at least a radiant, divine healer), which angered devout Christians as “blasphemy.” And his wandering, incoherent speeches, sudden reversals of policy, statements by retired generals and former Trump aides as well as New York Times’ reporter Peter Baker that Trump is “unbalanced…out of control…clearly insane.”
Lately there have been frequent (but vain) discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment (which provides for removal of an “incapacitated” president but has to be initiated by his Vice President and a majority of his Cabinet.) Also, a recent Economist/YouGov survey showed that 48% believe Trump is suffering from “significant or modest cognitive decline,” though only 35% believe the decline is significant. (I’m one of the 35%)
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