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/
livetohike
(24,320 posts)blowhard that says whatever crude thing comes to his feeble mind.
Whyisthisstillclose
(703 posts)11 Bravo
(24,320 posts)bbernardini
(10,020 posts)Also, does this tinfoil hat make my ass look big?
choie
(6,942 posts)And they decided the coast was clear. It's certainly not due to journalist integrity or balls.
paleotn
(22,372 posts)I'm sure he'll be all over this.
Blue Owl
(59,251 posts)S/V Loner
(9,556 posts)Why they pretend he isnt nuts when everyone knows he is and to state reality.
You are welcome. Again. LOL.
Prairie Gates
(8,280 posts)Peter Baker is a fucking trashbag.
S/V Loner
(9,556 posts)chicoescuela
(3,117 posts)thesquanderer
(13,039 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,280 posts)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)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)I guess it's the same people who still buy and read the NYT and WaPo.
reACTIONary
(7,198 posts)BigmanPigman
(55,278 posts)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)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 ones 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. Its 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 doesnt 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 isnt rubbish.
And if you are hackers..get a life. No one is going to learn to code!! Thats 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 shouldnt watch TED tech and psych today (though it explains a lot about why outside the field he apparently does not notice that his schools 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.)