The New York Times is the world’s most lucrative puzzle company, which makes its chronic puzzlement over Donald Trump either ironic or tragic.
Apparently, The New York Times, the self-described ‘paper of record,’ is ready to set the record straight, and make a declaration for the permanent record, so to speak.
Trump, as it turns out, is angry, incoherent, rambling, often lost, increasingly vituperative and old. Very old. He’s almost 80, after all. According to the NYT:
He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.
Ten years after Trump descended the “golden” escalator in Trump Tower, slandering Mexicans as rapists and murderers, let no one suggest he isn’t capable of growth and evolution on an issue, given how he has been able to expand his vicious immigration demagoguery. It now includes Haitians, whom he claims are barbecuing the pets of Springfield, Ohio’s besieged townspeople — real Americans, all.
Mostly though, he remains a mystery. Right?
Here is another excerpt from the story, which for the record, comes 1,626 days after Trump told the American people to inject themselves with bleach during a global pandemic:
Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side.
Except that there was no audience.
The debate was held in an empty hall.
No one “went crazy,” as Mr. Trump put it, because no one was there.
Indeed.
Apparently, Trump’s obvious decline is now official because the NYT computer guy has deciphered what can be plainly seen with the help of ChatGPT:
According to a computer analysis by The New York Times, Mr. Trump’s rally speeches now last an average of 82 minutes, compared with 45 minutes in 2016. Proportionately, he uses 13 percent more all-or-nothing terms like “always” and “never” than he did eight years ago, which some experts consider a sign of advancing age.
Similarly, he uses 32 percent more negative words than positive words now, compared with 21 percent in 2016, which can be another indicator of cognitive change. And he uses swearwords 69 percent more often than he did when he first ran, a trend that could reflect what experts call disinhibition. (A study by Stat, a health care news outlet, produced similar findings.)
Wow. Incredible. I guess we’ve seen the future of investigative reporting. Who could have known?
After ten years of inanity and insanity the NYT has made it official: Trump makes no sense whatsoever.
In Rome, Ga., he went on an extended riff about Mr. Biden in swim trunks on a beach. “Look, at 81 — do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have — I won’t say names because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was like, Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ Who? ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that anymore. But Cary Grant at 81 or 82 — going on 100, this guy, he’s 81 going on 100 — Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit either, and he was pretty good-looking, right?”
Talking on another occasion about how tough illegal immigrants are, he drifted off into a soliloquy about whether actors could portray them in a movie: “They can’t play the role. They’ll bring in a big actor and you look and you say, ‘Look, he’s got no muscle content. He’s got no muscle! We need a little muscle!’ Then they bring in another one. ‘But he’s got a weak face! He looks weak!’” Still, he has rather high regard for his own physique. “I could have been sunbathing on the beach,” he said at another point. “You have never seen a body so beautiful. Much better than Sleepy Joe.”
He considers himself the master of nearly every subject. He said Venezuelan gangs were armed “with MK-47s,” evidently meaning AK-47s, and then added, “I know that gun very well” because “I’ve become an expert on guns.” He claims to have been named “man of the year” in Michigan, although no such prize exists.
He is easily distracted. He halted in the middle of another extended monologue when he noticed a buzzing insect. “Oh, there’s a fly,” he said. “Oh. I wonder where the fly came from. See? Two years ago, I wouldn’t have had a fly up here. You’re changing rapidly. But we can’t take it any longer.”
Sometimes the ravings of an imbecile are simply the ravings of an imbecile. Trump is two parts venomous Chauncey Gardiner and one part Captain Queeg. He is the most predictable character in the history of American politics, but according to the NYT reporter whom Trump calls his “psychiatrist,” it’s not possible to really cover him because “he challenges news media process every day, has for years. The systems are just fundamentally - they were not built to deal with somebody who says things that are not true as often as he does or speaks as incoherently as he often does.”
Interestingly, the same NYT reporter who withheld vital information from the public about Trump for a book deal to be published later, who has admitted to lacking the ability to understand Trump, and believes the political media has done a good job covering him, has single-handedly uncovered one of the most extraordinary plots of our time: the vast left-wing conspiracy against the NYT, which manifests itself whenever there is any criticism over NYT coverage of Trump. According to Maggie Haberman, in an interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air:”
I'm talking about criticism on the left. I'm talking about a lot of that Trump has used the language of despots to undermine the press is very well established, and it's very dangerous. And I've talked about that. The publisher of The New York Times has been incredibly clear about that. He published an Op-Ed recently in The Washington Post actually talking about that. So I don't think that anybody is - in - at The New York Times is trying to sanitize Trump's language. Do I think that there are occasional pieces at my paper, at other papers that probably should have been done differently? That's absolutely true. And that's - but that - what happens with this industry on the left that attacks the press is that it gets described as a grand conspiracy to try to help Trump somehow, as opposed to people doing their job on daily deadlines and not always hitting the mark because we are humans. And we are doing our best under a very challenging set of circumstances. But I actually think the media has done a very good job of covering Trump.
I think that what is frustrating to those people making those claims is that there is not the result they want to see, which is Trump melts or Trump no longer has, you know popularity. I mean, you were saying - I think your question was treat him with credibility. He's the Republican nominee. So there's a substantial voting bloc in this country - almost half - that take seriously what he's saying. And it's not because The New York Times wrote a certain story. And so to not understand that, I think, is problematic for folks leveling the charge.
It is indeed a remarkable hour of unraveling. At long last, the hidden truths are becoming known.
MTG has revealed “they” are manipulating the weather:
Tucker Carlson has revealed that a Nazi and Holocaust denier who claims Churchill is a villain and Hitler misunderstood is the most popular and credible historian working today:
JD Vance revealed that he knows that Trump really won in 2020.
Maggie Haberman has revealed the plot against the NYT.
There are 29 days left until the election.
Donald Trump may be declining and almost certainly is, but what he is more than anything else is dangerous. He is a threat. Donald Trump is a grave threat to the liberties of Americans and the peace of the world.
How do I know? Because Trump told me, and still the NYT won’t listen, though it should be noted that they are catching up. After all, they recently figured out he is incoherent.
The failure that will be remembered most won’t be the failure to report the obvious lies or incoherence until it was too late, but rather the threat which went unspoken lest access be compromised.
The good news for anyone overly worried is that Trump isn’t worried.
It turns out, according to the NYT and Trump, he is “never wrong.”
Now, let's give due coverage to the lie:
Partisan lies about the recent problems caused by Helene, meant to advance the Trump campaign, are symbolic of the rot at the core of the Maga/fascist movement and its leaders.
MTG pretends to believe Democrats somehow caused and directed the storm to do damage in Republican strongholds. Wednesday, MTG posted on X, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
Trump has claimed that Democrats, including N.C. Governor Cooper, are withholding aid from Republicans. Trump said, “They’re being treated very badly in the Republican areas.”
Trump has claimed that FEMA has no money to help victims of Helene because it spent it all to help undocumented workers.
Musk posted that the FAA was blocking private relief planes headed for N.C.
Alex Jones, the same man who said the massacre at Sandy Hook was staged, posted on X, “Victims of Hurricane Helene Confirm The Federal Government Purposely Blocking Rescuers and Stealing Aid In an Attempt to Keep Deep Red Areas From Voting.”
At the local level some Republicans reflect the courage and honesty of Liz Cheney and other anti-Trump Republicans. N.C. state Senator Kevin Corbin-R, posted on Facebook, “Will you all stop this conspiracy theory junk…Please don’t let these crazy stories consume you.”
A vote for Trump is actually a vote for Vance. Many people do not seem to realize that.
Norma Frank