The Daily Blast: Trump’s Angry, Crazed Eruption over Cognitive Test Backfires on Itself

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On Air Force One, President Donald Trump unleashed a bizarre, angry, rambling rant about the cognitive test he supposedly aced this weekend. Worse, he compared himself cognitively to two Democrats who both happen to be nonwhite women. This rant backfired on itself: It revealed his worsening mental unfitness, his naked racism, his effort to normalize his belittling of nonwhite members of Congress and his ongoing attacks on democracy, and more. In today’s installment, New Republic contributing editor Meredith Shiner, who regularly critiques press coverage of this administration, paints a powerful picture of the horrors this administration is visiting on everyday people, including in Chicago, where she lives. She argues that the press should connect Trump’s mental decline directly to these real-world impacts by highlighting who’s really running things behind the scenes, and discusses how Democrats might drive home the horrific human toll of it all. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
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1:38.4	On Air Force One, President Donald Trump unleashed a bizarre, angry, rambling rant about the possibility that he might run for a third term, and about the cognitive test he supposedly aced this weekend.
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