Mary Trump is warning about Donald’s dementia--yet corporate media still refuses to cover it!
This is by design!
Mary Trump is not just an activist, she’s also a psychologist and a person who has known her Uncle Donald for her entire life. That means when Mary warns about Donald’s dangerous cognitive decline, it should get the attention of corporate media. But it barely makes a blip. It’s apparent that corporate media outlets have made a collective choice—with a few exceptions—to ignore this issue as I reported last week when I interviewed Dr. John Gartner from “Duty to Warn.” Yet Mary is continuing to raise red flags!
I spoke to my friend Mary on Friday about what she’s seeing with regards to Donald’s decline. As Mary explained, we are witnessing a “combination of psychological and cognitive issues happening all at once.” She pointed to Donald’s bizarre conduct at a town hall earlier in the week when he declared, “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music,” adding, “Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?” From there, Trump stood on stage for nearly 40 minutes where he awkwardly attempted to dance, wave to crowd and otherwise look like a person who was lost and confused.
Mary urged people to watch Donald closely over the next few weeks because his decline she noted was “worsening by the day” and would likely become more apparent. The best-selling author of various books including her great new one, “Who Could Ever Love You,” noted that when Trump was facing legal issues, cable news featured panel after panel with legal experts.
But she added, now “we're not dealing with legal issues anymore, rather we are faced with Trump’s cognitive issues.” Consequently, she believes this issue should be covered with the same intensity given the stakes. Mary suggested panels of experts to discuss what they are seeing with Donald’s cognitive slide including “clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists and neurologists.” She added, “If you want to put a gerontologist in there in the mix to fine, a sociologist to kind of give shape to the conversation about what's happening with us. She continued, “But by not doing that they're doing a huge disservice to voters.”
We know corporate media covered President Biden’s potential cognitive issues non-stop—but when it comes to Trump they are giving him a pass. We know that’s not happenstance, but rather a decision made by corporate media executives—many of whom who are supporting Trump. And while other corporate executives may not be supportive of Trump, no doubt they are concerned if they are too tough on Trump in the closing weeks of the campaign, they could lose access in the future to Trump along with other GOP officials. In both cases, corporate media has chosen protecting profits over protecting our democracy.
You can watch my full interview of Mary on this issue and more:
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I’ve been putting this out there since about 2018 when he was still in office - my sister is a doctor specializing in geriatrics. Back then she told me he showed all the signs and outward symptoms of rapidly declining dementia. She listed them for me. His cognitive decline has been on display for a long time and it’s a disgrace this isn’t all over the press and media. It does indeed affect us all.
I read Mary's substack all the time, so I get what you're saying. I do not understand why the media don't get that all their toadying will get them nowhere in the long run. They don't mean anything to trump, and they won't get any better treatment if he is elected. He may not even remember who they are by the time the election rolls around.