The Unhinging of a President

Apr 15, 2026

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What on earth is going on inside that black box?

A busy day at my real job today and not a lot of time to write or gather headlines. May be the same over the next two days.

I think the main thing that surfaces in the headlines is how many more people are seriouslyconcerned about President Trump’s mental health after this bizarre weekend of failed negotiations, following genocidal threats, Trump scolding the pope, etc. Democrats have finally gotten up the nerve to start an official congressional investigation into his mental health in preparation for calling for the 25th amendment, though they don’t have the power to make that happen.

The New York Times referred to the weekend as “Donald Trump’s most unhinged 48 hours as president in 11 bizarre moments”:

Pointing to how he took on the pope, as I pointed out yesterday, alienating Catholics, whose vote his party needs this fall;
acting like all the “you’re just like Jesus” talk has saturated his ego to the point of his running the idea of the flagpole to see how it flies;
trying to walk it back with a lie when it didn’t fly at all, claiming he was just interested in being a doctor, as if a doctor uses glowing hands, wears clerical robes, and as if Trump ever had any interest in the healing arts; some diehard MAGAites believed it as if it seemed reasonable Trump was fantasizing about being a doctor because of how much he clearly likes to heal people while bombing them or ripping the handicapped as “losers;”
such an obvious lie, but they were ready, as always, to swallow it whole. To try to sell the bizarre lie, he dug in deeper, claiming there was red-cross worker in the image. There was nothing that looked related to the Red Cross. He denyied it being Jesus for the third time, at which point presumably a cock crowed

As the Dems always did this same kind of covering with Joe Biden’s obvious dementia, the MAGA people repeatedly come up with any excuse for Trump’s obvious dementia. However, as with Joe Biden, the longer you drag out his reign with excuses, the more certain a day will come when his disasters become so bad that even his supporters can’t support the lies any longer. Then they will ask like the Dem’s did on debate night, “When did this happen?” It will register as a question that was so obvious to so many.