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dajoki's JournalTrump Is Not Stable -- and That Should Be a Huge News Story
Trump Is Not Stable and That Should Be a Huge News Story
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/83754
If over the weekend you saw a rambling madman give a frighteningly incoherent, sweaty, two-hour shoutfest of a speech at a right-wing summit, then you viewed a president coming unglued on national television in a way that has probably never been seen before in United States history. And that is extraordinary cause for alarm.
But if, instead, you saw nothing more than a fiery Donald Trump give a zigzagging, wide-ranging, campaign-like address where the Republican really let loose, then you likely work for the D.C. press, which once again swung and missed when it came to detailing the escalating threat that Trump represents to the country.
Specifically, newsrooms today nearly uniformly refuse to address the mounting, obvious signs that Trump is a deeply unstable man, as the CPAC meltdown so obviously demonstrated. Most reporters simply do not want to mention it. In most ways, it was just another campaign rally for the president, in flavor, content, and punchlines, the Daily Beast reported, summing up Trumps CPAC calamity. In other words: Nothing to see here, folks.
That was typical of CPAC coverage. Trump derides Mueller probe, mocks Democrats and his former attorney general, the Washington Post headline announced. The accompanying article didnt include even the slightest hint that Trumps speech was a flashing neon-red sign of a man teetering on the edge. That is a bionic-level attempt to normalize Trump and his CPAC disaster, where he referred to 2020 Democratic candidates as maniacs, suggested they hate their country, and accused the Democratic Party of supporting extreme late-term abortion.
That wasnt just some long-winded or rambling speech. That was pure insanity, and the fact that a sitting president unleashed such a bizarre performance, punctuated by so many incomprehensible nonsequiturs, means his stability and capacity ought to be questionedand it ought to be a pressing news story.
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