NYC gossip writers in the 80s knew how to cover him. As a deranged carnival barker.
See, he thought because they were reporting exactly what he said and did that meant fawning and adoration, but really he was being presented as a freak to be laughed at.
"MND is characterized by a significant decline in at least 1 of the cognition domains, including executive function, complex attention, language, learning, memory, perceptual-motor, or social cognition."
Can we quit using the term "mainstream media"? It no longer exists. The "mainstream" is all propaganda now. Reputable media is a limited quantity these days.
The Dem Party did great harm to itself lying to us when it let Biden run again, but we all let it happen, we all should have remembered he said he was NOT going to run again. I never thought his VP pick was a good one, we needed a primary, Kamala needed to let her hair look black, she didn’t 🤔
Hey @nytimes.com, you’ve done this too often! DO YOUR JOBS CONSISTENTLY if you still want to serve as a 4th estate! Otherwise you will be responsible for the demise of this country, when you try to HIDE/minimize how horrible Trump is!
I’ve said since 1/7/21, those who would eagerly run back to become MAGA 1/6/21 Defenders (now 4+ years) after being disgusted by the attack, the months long planning & scheming of 84 fake electors in 7 states, are now required to normalize the most inappropriate behavior, & Felonies.
NYT =MAGA
First two paragraphs are what, when, where. Here’s the 3rd ..
“Wearing his red “Make America Great Again” hat, Mr. Trump leaned into his aggressive agenda to purge diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the government, military and virtually every facet of American life”
NYT will have a sane washing headline that does most of the damage. Then the reporter will put in lots on unnecessary adjectives to show the reader that the reporter does not like Trump. Then a lie from MAGA. Then at the end a hint of how bad Trump is. But never the plain simple truth, Trump is nuts
It's more than incoherent it's classic signs of dementia. Poor judgement/decisions, losing inhibitions, and/or acting in ways that are not socially appropriate. His talk may have been borderline appropriate for Hooters but not for a graduation speech...and he doesn't realize it
I'm old enough to remember when he gave a speech like this at a Boy Scout function. Nobody should be shocked that he is capable of sinking to this level of despicable. We've been watching this shit show for decades!
All of the media should be all over this. Biden, on his worst day, was rational and coherent. That Trump could give this totally inappropriate rally speech to Cadets at our Military Academy is a disgrace. Whoever invited him should be fired...NOW!!
He sounds completely unhinged . Young military, why give them a lecture on Trophy Wives? Though he normally deflects by blurting out things he’s doing or done. Does he have marital problems? Has the Agreement come up for renewal?
Sane washing is what the journalists up here in New York's North Country call it
When you can't bear to print the gibberish and incoherent gobbledygook that comes out of Trump's dementia riddled mouth, you attempt to make something sane out of it
Just print his words folks, trust us to understand
DJT's handlers and FOX News have been doing it for years. How else can a man, that has lost more business ventures than any grifter in history, even remain relevant today.
Agree- like when @fareedzakaria.bsky.social lent credibility to the idea of DOGE when there was nothing about it, starting with Musk, that seemed plausible in terms of driving efficiency-no basis for benefit of doubt and very basis against that. There were question to answer that were not asked.
It really is such malpractice. They do not report on this man the way they would anyone else. Grandpa should be put to bed. But the media is so afraid of him. There are so many people and organizations complicit in the slow boiling destruction of our country.
I wish someone with discretionary money buys a 1-page ad on one of these newspapers and just post the entire Trump speech verbatim, with no omissions, no editing and cleaning up. With no comments. Just plainly present the reality as is.
Mainstream media has to do better than what they are doing. They are giving this guy a free ride, no matter what instead of calling him out for all the stuff he has done to the country and is going to do in the future.
A completely honest MSM headline for anything Trump does would simply be:
"Here's another completely incoherent Trump transcript filled with lies #1063"
As someone who works in news, I think it's high time that the editors making decisions on headlines and framing get added to the byline with that pointed context. Reporters have to put themselves on the line and own their stories, editors shouldn't be able to hide behind the masthead.
It’s like everyone is growing up in an abusive household now. The mental gymnastics in your head, the lies you have to tell yourself to feel okay, cause of constantly being under threat but having no choice but to stay. That’s what it feels like I’m watching
I was saddened & shocked by the underlying complicity & compliance the NYT demonstrated with their impotent headline concerning the bizarre & offensive rambling garbage trump tries calling a speech. Clearly, the Haberman /Kushner alliance is alive & well at the Times.
I can’t read or watch the major media outlets anymore. It’s tiring finding three other media sources to confirm what they’re reporting. I end up watching Youtube snippets with multiple perspectives and decide what is the closest version of truth.
Trump was giving insane, demented speeches all through the 2024 campaign (Hannibal Lecter, Arnold Palmer's manhood, they're eating the cats and dogs, the election was stolen, etc.), and 77 million complete idiots gave him the nuclear codes anyway. Our problem is our ignorant and racist electorate.
The myth of the media is as old as the country. Pulitzer and Hearst empires were built on yellow journalism. The Times became successful because they did less shitty access pieces, not none. Now, Sleazeberger thinks he has to dunk on democracy regularly to seem objective.
Trump is insane and unfit to serve as POTUS. Impeachment is the solution. Failure to impeach implies GOP support for trump. As long as GOP holds the majority in Congress the US government is in failure mode.
It’s a slow process, we have ALL been made numb. In what previous U.S. democracy would 1/5 of what’s already been done. We’ve been conditioned, we just happen to be the ones less affected by the conditioning.
Every time we bring up how outraged Fox would have reacted if a decent person would have done what Don Trumpino just did, we show how badly behind the times we are. Shock and click value is the only thing that counts. Being a complete shit. Hurting people. All good. The US has turned very ugly.
Every time a YouTuber pulls some crass, cringey stunt we all tut tut and bemoan how the youths are all slaves to clicks and likes, while the YouTuber monetizes the video they just made to respond to the criticism.
What if - and this is wild, I know - dems chased clicks and likes?
Here’s some perspective. There are roughly 280 million people 20 or older in the USA. Maybe 3.5 million watch Fox News during prime time. If the other 276 million would vote for democrats we’d be good. So clearly the Dems have bigger problems.
"Senile, dementia-riddled 78 year old convicted felon rants and raves about nothing in particular and threatens everyone with nonsensical punishments if his ass isn't kissed enough"
Like Paramount (CBS), MsM fears Trump's frivolous lawsuits and/or Trump's refusal to approve a merger. The current owners of CBS have none of the steadfast belief in the First Amendment that gave us the SCOTUS decision in Sullivan, nor faith in the 3 branches of govt to do what's right.
MSNBC had a reporter today discussing why they cover Biden’s age and not Trump’s and she said with trump there are other things to talk about. It felt very real and very wrong.
It’s because they’re afraid isn’t it. If Trump has his dictator way with things it will lead to reporters being led to stand against a wall for execution
He's had this ability to skirt the outermost edges of coherence and smarts his entire life. This isn't just something he's done in elections and his polical life - it's the same sort of horseshit we saw on The Apprentice.
What the NYT is doing these days is anything but funny. They are openly complicit in the rise of fascism in the US and have lost even the lingering fragments of credibility they had. No matter how much they kowtow and capitulate, they will never capture the right wing Trump base they crave.
A British reporter came over early in his last term & watched some of his speeches. She was appalled at how incoherent they were & at how hard the American press worked at making them "appear" coherent.
The double standard has been purposefully cultivated by the right over the past 40 years. Constant attacks against the MSM as biased while running crookedly biased "news" channels for themselves.
We are here because the MSM tried to play it straight in a crooked game.
Great reporting on the reporting.
My central question is what are the commoners to do about it?
I include myself in that category, and relish the fact that no one has called this a class war.
Republicans have declared war on the polity and caught us unawares the terminal damage done.
Exactly! It's dangerous because people are desensatized to trumps crazy. And MAGA already believes anything he says. The more outlandish, the better for them.
Biden is a statesman and gentleman who has spent his life in service to the US citizenry. Trump is a conman, felon, with an immense ego that has done nothing for anyone. And yet news media has spent the last two weeks dragging Biden because of Tapper’s lame-ass book. Media is failing us. FAILING US!
There is a lot of blame to go around. Tapper is just the latest in a long list. Almost as many VOTERS voted for Harris. I was one of them. Collective failure, my ass. People rely on news to be fair and unbiased in a run up to elections. Media failed.
I like the term above “ journalistic malpractice”. Like everything else, the news is for sale. The two biggest shareholders of NYT are global investment management companies. You know, the billionaires who believe they stand to gain with Trump.
Two months after Biden was elected, media tried to ignore trump. People were so tired after the trump that viewership and readership fell off. All the news organizations panicked and it’s been trump non stop since then BECAUSE, you’re right, it’s not about the journalism it’s about the money.
If the true facts were routinely reported, there would be a massive change in public perception. Which would lead to informed decisions and participation in elections. Twisting the news and outright lying are a massive disservice to our country.
If Biden had just quoted all the nonsense that Trump has delivered when they had their debate, then at the end said, "I just quoted Trump this entire time. If you find my comments appalling, don't vote for this guy!"
Yes stop trying to justify and wait for the felon to have a intelligent comment ideas or answers or to change or care about anything bit himself just show his stupidity ignorance selfishness hate and lies all the time just stop giving him any credence just stop
This framing is deeply inconsequential. 90% of NYT readers are liberals. Editorializing in news columns is not going to change the way they think. MAGA doesn't read NYT. Nor do low-information low-propensity voters in swing states. So they would not be affected either.
I’m betting that the NYT team wants to look professional, but how to report the Trump show without getting it on your shoes? Also, if you get your news without ever going past the headlines maybe the NYT isn’t for you.
The NYT headline reads very much like it would in Orwell's 1984.' In this case, history has already been written and rewritten 'in an effort to portray the government in a positive light' before the first article is even published. (Quote from intro to anniversary edition 1984)
I have determined that Trump ISN'T lying.
I think his Narcissism is so great that he believes everything he says is FACT cuz he simply said them.
Sooo...
I'm inclined to call what he says ARE just ABSURDITIES
&
I don't understand how anyone can not laugh at him.
Cuz he is a COMPLETE JOKE!
What is stunningly frightening to me is the way everyone seems to be banging on about Biden's aging cognition issues, while framing Trump's insane and malignant babbling as some sort of eccentricity. Biden's memory never concerned me as much as everything Trump says and does.
I could not agree more. Yes, the NY Times has written many excellent articles regarding Trump (special thanks Peter Baker) but their headlines are often awful and normalizing Trump's speeches is inexcusable.
The NYT must only have been present for the first 5 minutes. Long enough to hear about the "new era". The next 50 minutes or so was the familar "woe is me", lashing out against his perceived enemies 🙄
The double standard is so in your face, when it comes to Trump.
Sure, Trump will get up & walk out, if you don't let him talk down to you or you ask him 6th grade questions. Sure he'll call you fake news, everyone gets that.
Media, it isnt like he's going anywhere. He needs you more then you/me care
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See, he thought because they were reporting exactly what he said and did that meant fawning and adoration, but really he was being presented as a freak to be laughed at.
Same now, but 70M are cheering, not laughing
cognition (confabulation; disorganized thought process);
memory (his Mexico/Canada trade deal, etc);
emotional regulation (rage); &
reality testing (persecutory/paranoid ideation).
All symptoms of Major Neurocognitive Disorder aka Dementia.
NYT =MAGA
Here’s the summary right below the headline ….
“The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological experiments” or “nation-building crusades.”
made-up rationalizations used as cover for his efforts to further codify his bigotry, corruption and incompetence into normal presidential behavior?
“Wearing his red “Make America Great Again” hat, Mr. Trump leaned into his aggressive agenda to purge diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the government, military and virtually every facet of American life”
"Japanese issued a formal grievance with the USA"
When you can't bear to print the gibberish and incoherent gobbledygook that comes out of Trump's dementia riddled mouth, you attempt to make something sane out of it
Just print his words folks, trust us to understand
"Here's another completely incoherent Trump transcript filled with lies #1063"
🛑 STOP 🛑
This horrible DEATH budget
Senate's main switchboard number is (202) 224-3121
Life is going to get so much worse for the 99% of us
Each day seems worse than the last ....but we can't wait until mid terms
Where's that story?
He’s fvckin nuts
Say it
TRUMP INVENTS NEW LANGUAGE
Every time a YouTuber pulls some crass, cringey stunt we all tut tut and bemoan how the youths are all slaves to clicks and likes, while the YouTuber monetizes the video they just made to respond to the criticism.
What if - and this is wild, I know - dems chased clicks and likes?
"Senile, dementia-riddled 78 year old convicted felon rants and raves about nothing in particular and threatens everyone with nonsensical punishments if his ass isn't kissed enough"
86🖕🏻47
We are here because the MSM tried to play it straight in a crooked game.
My central question is what are the commoners to do about it?
I include myself in that category, and relish the fact that no one has called this a class war.
Republicans have declared war on the polity and caught us unawares the terminal damage done.
What to do?
And now it has been non-stop dragging him through the mud for weeks again - it's sick. Tapper is an asshole.
And Donnie Dipshit the most abnormal president ever continues on his crime spree unabated.
Isn’t that like saying every teacher I had knew nothing and taught me nothing, yet somehow I turned out wise and competent.
at same time I don't care for the "this is not normal" approach to Trump
Trump has no feel for our freedoms and is outright hostile to our Safety and Happiness, that's what matters
(lots of voters don't want normalcy, often for good reason)
I just feel the nonsense and incoherence is not as big a problem as his depraved indifference
Freedom of the press, journalistic integrity and reporting the facts with dignity and honor have all died...
What's left is now available to the highest bidder in a yard sale, hosted on the White House lawn
I think his Narcissism is so great that he believes everything he says is FACT cuz he simply said them.
Sooo...
I'm inclined to call what he says ARE just ABSURDITIES
&
I don't understand how anyone can not laugh at him.
Cuz he is a COMPLETE JOKE!
It's waaay past TIME that Trump be CALLED OUT on his ABSURDITIES!🤪
⏰tick-Tock⏰
I-DON'T-GET-IT,
&
NOT-ONE-SINGLE-bit. 🤬
Sure, Trump will get up & walk out, if you don't let him talk down to you or you ask him 6th grade questions. Sure he'll call you fake news, everyone gets that.
Media, it isnt like he's going anywhere. He needs you more then you/me care