Is Trump Nuts?
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 23:49
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The "Banality of Crazy" has warped American politics because the press rarely reports on his insanity.
Brian Klaas | Oct 1, 2023
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-case-for-amplifying-trumps-insanity
On Friday night, Donald Trump gave a chillingly dark speech which few Americans know about.
He pledged to get tough on crime by executing people for petty crimes like shoplifting.
He joked about Paul Pelosi, the elderly husband of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who was nearly beaten to death by a MAGA conspiracist who bludgeoned Pelosi’s skull with a hammer. (The baying crowd found Trump’s joke hilarious, laughing with glee at the prospect of an innocent elderly man nearly being assassinated).
Then, showing his intellectual acumen and flashing his firm grip on reality, Trump told the California crowd that he had an ingenious plan for fighting forest fires which involved…watering the forests so that the ground would be damp. (This is an additional strategy beyond his plan to “rake the forests,” which he previously suggested; American forests cover 800 million acres of land).
These dark and bizarre comments follow shortly after Trump floated the idea, on his social media network Truth Social, of executing America’s outgoing top general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. Trump wrote that Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.” (The phone call was, in fact, explicitly authorized by Trump-administration officials).
And yet, none of the nation’s front pages blared “Trump Suggests That Top General Deserves Execution” or “Former President Accuses General of Treason.” Instead, the post barely made the news. Most Americans who don’t follow Trump on social media probably don’t even know it happened.
Trump’s rhetoric is dangerous, not just because it is the exact sort that incites violence against public officials but also because it shows just how numb the country has grown toward threats more typical of broken, authoritarian regimes. The United States is not just careening toward a significant risk of political violence around the 2024 presidential election. It’s also mostly oblivious to where it’s headed.
What is going on? How is it possible that the leading candidate to become president of the United States can float the prospect of executing a general and the media response is…crickets?
How is it possible that it’s not front page news when a man who soon may return to power calls for law enforcement to kill people for minor crimes? And why do so few people question Trump’s mental acuity rather than Biden’s, when Trump proposes delusional, unhinged plans for forest management and warns his supporters that Biden is going to lead us into World War II (which would require a time machine), or wrongly claims that he defeated Barack Obama in 2016.
On the political left, there has long been a steady drumbeat of admonishment on social media for those who highlight Trump’s awful rhetoric. Whenever I tweet about Trump’s dangerous language, there’s always the predictable refrain from someone who replies: “Don’t amplify him! You’re just spreading his message.”
The press, to an astonishing extent, has followed that admonishment. I looked at the New York Times for mention of Trump calling to execute shoplifters, or water the forests, or how he thinks an 82 year-old man getting his skull smashed in his own home by a lunatic with a hammer is hilarious. Nothing. I couldn’t find it.
If it was covered, it was buried deep. Scrolling through my New York Times app on Saturday, I saw dozens of political stories before getting to a piece titled “The Pumpkin Spice Latte Will Outlive Us All” and “DogTV is TV for Dogs. Except When It’s For People.” But there was nothing about Trump’s speech.
This approach has backfired. It’s bad for democracy. The “Don’t Amplify Him” argument is disastrous. We need to amplify Trump’s vi
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Yup, he's nuts.
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Trump Suggests 98% of His Supporters Would Fail Cognitive Decline Test
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-suggests-98-of-his-suppo
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Jack, your hero thinks you're stupid. Too funny...
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He wasn't talking about me. I'm one of the 2%.
I've read this book front to back a half dozen times.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Memory_Makes_Money.html?id=vBrgne
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Not only can I memorize a list of 20 words that you gave me, but I could tell you what order a word was on the list or read it backward to you 3 days later.
He was obviously saying that only 2% of people in general could read the list back to them 30 minutes later, but you're an idiot and you can only think in cartoons and article headlines.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He wasn't talking about me. I'm one of the 2%.
I've read this book front to back a half dozen times.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Memory_Makes_Money.html?id=vBrgne
XEqqUC
Not only can I memorize a list of 20 words that you gave me, but I could tell you what order a word was on the list or read it backward to you 3 days later.
He was obviously saying that only 2% of people in general could read the list back to them 30 minutes later, but you're an idiot and you can only think in cartoons and article headlines.
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Way too funny... That explains why you flunked out of community college twice and why you can't find and hold a job. Why you lived on seven thousand dollars last year.
I'm rolling on the floor laughing again loser.
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Enjoy your day today, honey.
Back to the salt mines for you tomorrow, working to pay off the interest on that lifelong debt you've enslaved yourself to.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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probably more crazy than Musk it seems Trump can get way too emotional
Donald Trump documents trial indefinitely postponed by Judge Aileen Cannon
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261804/d
onald-trump-documents-trial-indefinitely-postponed-judge-aileen-cannon
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I won my bet with myself.
Ha!
It called Schizophrenia comrade.
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'If facts don't matter, this country is lost': Weissmann on MAGA assault on rule of law
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Of course Trump is nuts...
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its arrives early March Madness times
Trump’s declarations on Greenland and Panama Canal have set the hares running
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/01/08/trumps-greenland-pa
nama-canal-denmark-europe/
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