Trump’s Mental State Just Got Visibly Worse. Will the Media Say So?

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

During an event billed as a speech about the economy, Donald Trump was addled and confused, rambled incoherently, and launched into strange non sequiturs. Yet The New York Times’s initial news story made the event sound far more normal than it was. Is the press doing an adequate job of analyzing Trump’s deteriorating mental state? We think the answer is an emphatic “no.” We talked to former reporter Meredith Shiner—author of a recent piece for The New Republic about the successes of GOP media ref-working—who explained why the press largely fails to scrutinize Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:51.7	In New York City on Thursday, Donald Trump delivered something that was billed as a speech
1:57.1	about the economy. In it, he was addled and confused, rambled incoherently at several
2:02.8	different moments, and launched into some really bizarre non-sequiturs. So what was the New York
2:08.7	Times' headline on its initial news story about the speech? Well, it was totally straight. Trump calls
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2:19.7	Sounds pretty sane, right? Well, the speech wasn't all that sane. So this all raises a question.
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