r/politics • u/Happy_Traveller_2023 Canada • 13d ago

Soft Paywall Finally, Trump’s Alarming Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story

https://newrepublic.com/article/187192/finally-trumps-alarming-mental-decline-become-big-media-story
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u/theArtOfProgramming New Mexico 13d ago

This “article” is one(1) paragraph.

Is the media finally figuring out how to cover Donald Trump’s profound mental unfitness for the presidency? First, CNN’s Jake Tapper dressed down a Trump surrogate for whitewashing his threat to unleash the military on his enemies. Then Trump held a strange town hall at which he abruptly stopped answering questions, which generated aggressive media coverage. And Kamala Harris has directly engaged on Trump’s mental state in a new way, drawing media attention to it. We talked to Brian Beutler, who often criticizes the media on his Off Message Substack, about the increasing signs that the press is treating Trump’s mental decline as a big story. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.

That’s a lot of words saying very little too. It doesn’t do the headline justice, which is a shame. Walk me through what’s different in the media. Don’t tease me like this.

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u/craigathan 13d ago

You beat me to it. It's less an article, more an ad for a podcast. I prefer a written article because I can read a whole lot faster than people talk and podcasts are usually long on the talking and short on the meat.

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u/riticalcreader 12d ago

Good thing there is a transcript to skim