His handlers are running out of ways to hide what is happening to him

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Yesterday, the president of the United States of America spent his entire day spiraling out of control for the entire world to see. From early in the morning until late in the night, Donald Trump struggled to hold it together. As he moved through a packed schedule with a swearing in ceremony, multiple flights, and a public appearance, he still found time to share a stream of increasingly disturbing social media posts, including a fake video of himself throwing Steven Colbear into a dumpster where his body appeared lifeless alongside yet another threat directed at Greenland.

[00:00:38]And in between those increasingly erratic posts, he spoke at a political rally where he seemed increasingly unable to stay on message, remain focused, or even complete a coherent train of thought for more than a few seconds at a time. at one point even declaring himself the smartest guy you will ever meet before immediately bouncing from one intrusive thought to the next while rambling about a conversation he supposedly had with a physician saying doctor I don't mind being called a brilliant total tyrant dictator but I don't want to be called dumb what do I do doctor is there some kind of test I can take the rest of the day was just as concerning He once again brought up the cognitive test. Standing in front of his most loyal supporters, he launched into a long winding story about a conversation he said he had with his doctor. The whole thing started in his telling with the names people have called him. A genius, a brilliant, vicious dictator who wanted to take over the world. And then he said, "They hit me with a bad one. He's a dumb person. He paused on the spelling dumb, not the B. And then, as if it were a fact, we're sharing.

[00:01:59]Most people don't know it has a B.

[00:02:02]That was the one that got to him.

[00:02:04]Because here's the line he keeps returning to. The one that tells us exactly what wounds him. I don't mind being called a brilliant, total tyrant, dictator, but I don't want to be called dumb. Before I go on, I just want to add something here. When I'm when I'm reading his post, like this was hard to actually talk about. As usual, his ramblings are are incoherent. They don't make sense. And so, I originally included his big long comments that he said, but they didn't even make sense when I wrote them. And I tried to break it down to explain it, and it still was utterly confusing. This is the problem because this was the president of the United States of America incoherently babbling and also publicly stating that being called a tyrant does not bother him.

[00:02:53]Being called a dictator that doesn't bother him, but being called dumb does.

[00:02:59]From there, it only got stranger. He explained that he asked his doctor for a test and that the doctor warned him it would be public because it would be done at Walter Reed, you know, which is a military hospital in front of five doctors and that he could fail the test.

[00:03:14]And the doctor said in Trump's words, "It'll be an embarrassment."

[00:03:19]And then Trump said, "But let's do it."

[00:03:21]He described the questions. The first one he said was this. You have a bear, a snake, an elephant, and a horse. Name the horse.

[00:03:30]That's the horse.

[00:03:32]That was the question he was proud of that he could pick out a horse. But something else I keep coming back to when he tells the story, which he says constantly, but it evolves every single time because the real test uses the same three animals practically every time. A lion, a rhinoceros, and a camel. But every time he tells a story, the animals seem to change and so do the circumstances that the commenting around it.

[00:03:58]Anyways, then he went and he claimed that the hard questions came later and acted out a math problem for the crowd.

[00:04:05]Again, this is this makes no sense, but I'm going to tell you what he said. Pick a number, sir. Any number. Okay. 203.

[00:04:12]Multiply it by 9, divide it by 2, add on, 1324, subtract 1,292, multiply it by one more time by 19.

[00:04:23]What's the answer, sir? And announced, and I got it right. He said one of the doctors told him he has been giving the test for 20 years and he has never seen anyone ace it. He said he has now taken it three times and aced all of them.

[00:04:42]Every single time he goes off the rails on how cognitively elite he is, we all see the severe deficiency he is facing.

[00:04:49]The more he attempts to cover it up with these sorted takes, the deeper he digs himself into one of the largest coverups of our lifetime.

[00:04:58]We can leave the diagnosis to the medical professionals. But these ups and downs, the paranoia, the lies, and the overcompensation we are seeing with him are not normal. They are deeply troubling. And he continued to stand in front of the crowd and spend several more minutes insisting on his own sharpness, repeating the same lines, stories, propaganda, and lies over and over again like a recording that keeps catching on the same scratch. And then there was the barrage of post he unleashed on True Social throughout the day, flooding his profile with increasingly bizarre and unsettling images. And maybe the hardest part about saying what he was sharing was accepting that the person posting such garbage holds such enormous power over the entire planet. He shared a fake video of himself, you know, the one I I talked about before, shoving Steven Colber into a dumpster, leaving his body limp after the assault. He posted a photo of himself in a USA hat, looking exhausted and visibly unwell, awkwardly waving at no one. He posted an image of a glowing dome over the White House, casting himself as some kind of strongman ruler, stealing himself inside a fortress of light, leaving the rest of us and the entire country to be attacked by circling drones.

[00:06:23]And then came another post aimed at Greenland, saying, "Hello, Greenland."

[00:06:28]he wrote over the image of his own face looming above a Greenantic town, still publicly fantasizing about taking an allies land by force after its people and leaders have repeatedly and inequivocally told him it is not for sale.

[00:06:45]And then in the early afternoon came one of the strangest posts of all. Trump announced in a written statement that he would not be attending his own son's wedding this weekend. circumstances pertaining to government," he wrote, explaining that he believed it was important to remain at the White House during this important period of time.

[00:07:04]Donald Trump not attending his own son's wedding is not as shocking as it would be for just about anyone else on the planet. He does not like being upstaged, and this is one of the rare moments in his life where the attention would not fully belong to him. But that may not even be the real reason he decided to stay behind. Because Trump also canceled his weekend golf trip to New Jersey and will instead remain in Washington DC.

[00:07:32]Axios reported that he gathered his senior national security team on Friday morning and is seriously considering launching new strikes against Iran. Of course, unless there is a lastm minute breakthrough in talks, which seems to happen often. CBS separately reported that military and national security officials canled their Memorial Day weekend plans while waiting for their orders. And when I hear that the president of the United States has skipped his own son's wedding to remain inside the White House over a holiday weekend while the people responsible for managing wars are quietly canceling their plans, too. I do not assume anyone is preparing for a peaceful few days. It does not mean anything is going to happen either, though. But what we do know is how he operates. We know the way he reaches for force when he feels small and cornered.

[00:08:24]And that is exactly how he has been feeling.

[00:08:28]And this is the part that should concern every single one of us regardless of how we feel about any one threat he makes.

[00:08:36]This past week, Reuters published an investigation into the unraveling of American diplomacy under this president.

[00:08:45]In it, a European diplomat described what happened in April.

[00:08:50]Back when you remember Trump posted that a whole civilization will die tonight.

[00:08:55]His government needed an urgent answer to one terrifying question. Was the president of the United States of America talking about using a nuclear weapon?

[00:09:06]They feared, the diplomat said, that Russia might seize the moment to make the same kind of threat over Ukraine and that the world could end up facing a nuclear crisis on two fronts at once. So they did what allies have always done.

[00:09:22]They went to the State Department for reassurance. And according to that diplomat, the officials there told them they did not know what he meant or what his words might lead to.

[00:09:36]The people whose entire job it is to stand between a reckless sentence and a catastrophe could not tell one of our oldest allies what their own president meant. That is what a hollowedout government looks like. It is not only the cruelty we see. It is the complete incompetence and the dangerous impulsivity that comes when a government is no longer being run by serious people, but instead by loyalists, by propagandists, and exhausted staff members constantly trying to interpret the moods and impulses of one extremely unstable man. And in the midst of all of this chaos, Tulsi Gabbard resigned yesterday. She turned in her resignation as direct as director of national intelligence saying she needs to step away to care for her husband who has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Her last day will be June 30th.

[00:10:30]She is the fourth cabinet official to leave this administration and all four have been women. As a human being, I hope her husband recovers. I hope his suffering eases and that he comes through this. And that's not because I think she or her family stood on the right side of history, but because that is a line we cannot cross. I want everyone around this present healthy, whole, and present. Because there are depths we can never let ourselves go to to protect our own humanity.

[00:11:02]And also so that one day they can answer for what they have done to this country.

[00:11:06]So I wish him well and I mean it.

[00:11:10]I also wonder if maybe Tulsi saw what was coming. Maybe a painful private moment arrived and she took the chance to step off a sinking ship. We have to imagine that someone who has sat where she sat and saw what she saw understood how this story is likely to end. People have been asking for months whether she would last and now she will be gone. And the timing speaks for itself. Nothing that happened yesterday is surprising anymore. Nothing shocks us now. Living in the United States with Donald Trump as president is a special kind of hell, a constant psychological exhaustion where every day feels like waking up inside another manufactured crisis, another spectacle that somehow manages to be both absurd and deeply dangerous at the same time.

[00:12:01]And regardless of the fact that we didn't vote for him, this is still our reality to contend with. But on days like that, especially when he is once again threatening allies like Greenland, while openly behaving in ways that would alarm anyone if they were not desensitized by years of chaos. I keep thinking about the people watching all of this from outside our borders. I think about how harmful it is to the rest of the world. About how unstable America is. About what it feels like to wake up every morning in another country and realize that such a powerful nation is being led by a man publicly spiraling in front of the cameras while still controlling the machinery of war, intelligence, trade, and global security. I think about those I met during my years of traveling. the people who taught me how to see beyond the bubble of American exceptionalism. And the truth is, you do not even have to leave this country to step outside of that bubble. Plenty of people do it simply by educating themselves by reading historians, social scientists, economists, and people who understood the world beyond our own reflection. But traveling changed me because it forced me to confront the reality that the rest of the world lives with the consequences of American decisions, too. often without ever getting a vote in them. I keep thinking about a conversation I had in London with a cab driver who told me they were only just beginning to recover from the Great Recession, which started here and rippled outward until it reached their doorsteps. They were finally getting back on their feet years after most of us had. That conversation stayed with me because I know what happens here never really stays here.

[00:13:44]Economic collapse spreads the same way viruses do.

[00:13:48]It moves across borders through markets, governments, supply chains, and households thousands of miles away from the people responsible for causing it.

[00:14:02]When America destabilizes itself, the consequences do not stop at our shores.

[00:14:06]The rest of the world ends up carrying the weight, too. To everyone seeing this from somewhere else in the world, we see you. We know what this is doing to you.

[00:14:18]We know about the rising fuel prices.

[00:14:21]We know about the destabilization, the way the ground feels less solid when our country is being run by a madman who post threats in the afternoon and skips his own son's wedding. We will always wonder whether we could have done more to stop this. I think that is a question all of us here will have to sit with for a very long time. Please don't wait for us to change, but please don't give up on us either because we will turn this around and spend the decades it takes to make it right. Right now, I am working through frustration and anger. None of this should be happening, and there's no quick fix. So, I'm surviving this moment by focusing locally. The warm months are upon us, and that matters more than it sounds. We can be outside more. We can gather together. We can be there for each other. We can hold the door for a stranger and bring back the small ordinary humanity that this moment keeps trying to steal from us because that is the one thing they can never take. And it is exactly what we are fighting to protect.

[00:15:26]Let's get to work. Join a local organization. Find your local democratic group, independent voter group, or grassroots coalition. Volunteer for the people you believe in. And if you can afford it, donate to them, too. Once the primaries are over and we know who our candidates are, get behind them with your time, your energy, and your money.

[00:15:48]The way you have shown up for independent media for writers like me through paid subscriptions is that same spirit, and I cannot thank you enough for it. You are the reason I can write every single night. You're the reason I can make these videos. That kind of support is its own act of resistance. It keeps voices alive, but they would rather drown out. And right now, we need to focus that same energy and support close to home, too. These midterms will be decided district by district, state by state. This is about what is happening in our own communities and on our own streets. Once we get through this, we take the fight national again.

[00:16:25]We will have two years to build towards the next presidential election, and we're going to do it the right way this time. But right now, in this moment, we must continue to protect the First Amendment and the people still willing to speak the truth to protect free and fair elections and support the candidates who will lead us out of this corruption racket and begin rebuilding what they have tried so hard to break.

[00:16:49]We already have all the tools we need to push back against this authoritarian regime. Most importantly, we have each other. We are not alone in our resistance. People around the country are doing their part to stop Trump's corruption, including the growing wave of legal challenges to Trump's $ 1.776 billion fund. More than one lawsuit has now been filed seeking to block the fund entirely to stop a single dollar from ever going out the door, with plaintiffs arguing it is unconstitutional and was never authorized by anyone other than Trump and his administration. And there will likely be more suits and more plaintiffs and more people stepping forward to take up this fight in one of the places that Trump cannot as easily bully, threaten, or post his way out of the courts. There is no certainty that this corruption fund will be stopped, but more people are looking at what is happening and deciding not to let it pass quietly. Evil regimes often end when enough people come together and refuse to surrender to them. Not usually through one dramatic knockout blow, but through ordinary people refusing to look away all at once. With courts holding the line, with communities taking care of one another. With journalists continuing to report the truth.

[00:18:12]with neighbors organizing, voting, protesting, and pushing back together until the collective weight of all of us become something that the regime can no longer silence, outrun, or survive.

[00:18:27]We are getting closer to that moment every single day. And for us, it may very well come through the largest midterm turnout this country has ever seen. through millions of exhausted, angry, frightened, determined Americans deciding that they have had enough of the chaos, the corruption, and the cruelty, and the constant humiliation of watching our country be hollowed out.

[00:18:49]Authoritarian movements survive by convincing people that resistance is useless, that the outcome is already decided, that ordinary people are powerless against systems this large.

[00:19:00]History says otherwise. historyized regimes begin to crack the moment enough people stop complying with the lie that they are unstoppable and we are unstoppable and that is why I still have hope for America and you should too. Thank you for watching this video. Thank you for standing together as one against the corruption, the cruelty and the chaos.

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[00:19:37]We are up against a propaganda machine and we have to make sure that our voices are louder than their lies.

[00:19:46]We can do this. We're not alone and we are growing.

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