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boonecreek

(1,528 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 04:58 PM 14 hrs ago

NY Times Drops Splashy New Feature on Trump's Mental Acuity: 'Less Restrained and More Incoherent'

Source: MEDIAite

The New York Times published a new piece questioning President Donald Trump's
mental acuity on Monday, hours after a Sunday night / Monday morning Truth Social tirade
that included an attack on Pope Leo XIV and a now deleted image of the commander in
chief as Jesus Christ.

A story entitled "Trump's Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health
Debate," written by Peter Baker, once again raised Trumps cognitive ability.

In the piece Baker writes that Trump is "even less restrained and more incoherent at times":

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ny-times-drops-splashy-new-feature-on-trumps-mental-acuity-less-restrained-and-more-incoherent/



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NY Times Drops Splashy New Feature on Trump's Mental Acuity: 'Less Restrained and More Incoherent' (Original Post) boonecreek 14 hrs ago OP
"Less restrained" than wha? He's always been a livetohike 13 hrs ago #1
The next restraining needs to be by handcuffs Whyisthisstillclose 13 hrs ago #2
Or a straight jacket. 11 Bravo 13 hrs ago #5
Does this mean the NYT has been informed by their bosses in the deep state that Trump is on his way out? bbernardini 13 hrs ago #3
Maybe they heard that the suit against Wall Street and the Guardian were going to be dropped. choie 12 hrs ago #9
Hey! Someone call Jake Tapper! paleotn 13 hrs ago #4
Splashy -- like a turd dropping into a toilet Blue Owl 13 hrs ago #6
LOL. I sent them an email asking... S/V Loner 13 hrs ago #7
Thank you! Prairie Gates 12 hrs ago #11
LOL S/V Loner 11 hrs ago #13
100%. Great observation and comment. He sucks chicoescuela 5 hrs ago #17
I hate that "drops" is now a word that now also means its opposite. (n/t) thesquanderer 12 hrs ago #8
Written by Trump Whisperer Asshole Peter Baker Prairie Gates 12 hrs ago #10
I agree with Peter Baker on his assessment of Trump....... I have to wonder why riversedge 11 hrs ago #12
Who still watches CNN?!? BigmanPigman 11 hrs ago #14
Here's for you.... reACTIONary 9 hrs ago #15
"crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy"? BigmanPigman 7 hrs ago #16
Mental fitness for what? jfz9580m 1 hr ago #18

livetohike

(24,320 posts)
1. "Less restrained" than wha? He's always been a
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 05:01 PM
13 hrs ago

blowhard that says whatever crude thing comes to his feeble mind.

bbernardini

(10,020 posts)
3. Does this mean the NYT has been informed by their bosses in the deep state that Trump is on his way out?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 05:17 PM
13 hrs ago

Also, does this tinfoil hat make my ass look big?

choie

(6,942 posts)
9. Maybe they heard that the suit against Wall Street and the Guardian were going to be dropped.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 06:19 PM
12 hrs ago

And they decided the coast was clear. It's certainly not due to journalist integrity or balls.

S/V Loner

(9,556 posts)
7. LOL. I sent them an email asking...
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 05:48 PM
13 hrs ago

Why they pretend he isn’t nuts when everyone knows he is and to state reality.
You are welcome. Again. LOL.

Prairie Gates

(8,280 posts)
10. Written by Trump Whisperer Asshole Peter Baker
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 06:56 PM
12 hrs ago

Some say X. Some say Y. Democrats say X. Some on the right say Y. The White House says Z.

Who's to know?

It's all such an amusing little game!

- Byline, Peter Baker

FUCK PETER BAKER.

riversedge

(81,024 posts)
12. I agree with Peter Baker on his assessment of Trump....... I have to wonder why
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 07:06 PM
11 hrs ago

his staff does not reign him in. But I suspect Trump would not listen anyways.

In the piece Baker writes that Trump is "even less restrained and more incoherent at times":


BigmanPigman

(55,278 posts)
14. Who still watches CNN?!?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 07:32 PM
11 hrs ago

I guess it's the same people who still buy and read the NYT and WaPo.

BigmanPigman

(55,278 posts)
16. "crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy"?
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 11:09 PM
7 hrs ago

That is what I asked my psychiatrist in 2017 and his reply sort of scared me. He went with the "crazy like a fox" answer. I wonder what his answer would be today if he hadn't retired in 2019.

jfz9580m

(17,351 posts)
18. Mental fitness for what?
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 05:39 AM
1 hr ago

Last edited Tue Apr 14, 2026, 06:16 AM - Edit history (1)

Trump is mentally fit enough to be a reality show star, a professional celebrity, an influencer, a performance artist of some sort I suppose. To the extent that the first three can be considered a profession, he is I suppose “crazy as a fox” as his acolytes brand it.

That is not the same as mental fitness for the office of the US presidency.

I for instance am mentally unfit to be an influencer, a television personality, a politician, a media figure.

I am mentally fit to be a (mediocre -extremely mediocre, bottom of the class and unlike Trump ashamed of it, hyper super mediocre low IQ okay? Happy? And not suicidal because no one is suicidal for being the worst scientist ever. Someone has to be. I am not re-defining standards..it is not “imposter syndrome” which these barbarians would correctly identify as a hedge one could use hoping to throw off estimation of one’s precise level of low IQ, mediocrity. I am sticking with humor as a defensive mechanism..A classic. Total jackasses..And the humor is just for asshole “colleagues” who may justifiably be annoying about my mediocrity and well..at least I am not thriving in a world full of tech creeps who destroy society. Lamest self-defense imaginable. It’s asymmetric! Anyway, I am still filing complaints about all the rest of it which I never wilingly engaged with and never will. That is sanity. It has to be unconstitutional in both democracies involved) hard scientist, a private citizen in a democracy and an irate and gloomy anonymous activist and complainant and attempting to emulate those fine birds ostriches.

You put me in ill fitting contexts I would seem mentally unfit. Yeeesh.

I really got this girl..she was a very funny blogger I used to read back in the day.

I am sad to do this to her again. But she is funny organically rather than goaded into shedding the ordinary layer of human-whatever it is when people try to pass for insipid enough tp not attract a damn travelling, everywhere 3-ring circus, sucking away all your space and time with no explanation and an unclear expectation of the system of trust extending to some unknown, random creeps:

https://plork.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-am-become-famous.html?m=1

I am unwilling to start a Hello I am Stupid and Mediocre podcast. Seems a bit redundant.
But I did relate to that. Yeesh. Any shame or what? Idiots..


What I am confused about is how this is a test of general intelligence I failed when I tried to indicate over and over that I would kowtow to academic scientists in my field or the ORI or my mentors (minus these tech creeps shilling agents and lie detectors and emotion ai) - they are actually elite in hard science. And okay fine.


But why I should pretend to be in some sort of “weeeeee” with other equally mediocre people without the sense to tell these tech creeps to fuck off and that one doesn’t buy that it is about Security, Safety, Healthcare, The Press (Yasha Levine or Chris Ketcham or Ed Zitron etc would never behave like the disgraceful NYT douchebag. Hey I have a disease! I am unfiltered! Like Trump! No picking on the diseased!)? This is bullshit.
I will finish this paper I was working on when I fell into whatever hell this was. But I am too old and tired to keep pretending that this rubbish isn’t rubbish.
And if you are hackers..get a life. No one is going to “learn to code!!” That’s why we have laws!
Crazy or what?

While this has strained my temper, my contract throughout was only with my mentor who works in my field and yes he shouldn’t watch TED tech and psych today (though it explains a lot about why outside the field he apparently does not notice that his school’s psychiatry dept etc is full of what can only be termed unutterably sleazy and stupid douchebags who wink at serious conflicts of interest involving data mining giants trying to sleazily mediate “open science” and healthcare and causing more calamities than anything they fix and endlessly doing pointless Solaristics like pretty much everything Alex Pentland does. Yeesh. Give me a fucking break. Security issue my ass. How is “I 💓 Epstein because he has money and I have no principles” a security issue connected with me? My mentor was decent, but all the crap like the MIT Media Lab and tech billionaire funding and game theoretic assholery and the harassing creeps on my street are the systemic issue. Not anyone I would even consider an actual scientist.)

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