The way we live now

So much has gotten so “normalized” that we may be missing the extent to which Trump is having some sort of quite possibly dementia-related breakdown:

President Donald Trump went on a bizarre Truth Social posting binge Monday night, as pointed out by many media experts, including Vaughn Sterling, executive producer of “The Source With Kaitlan Collins” on CNN, who wondered “what was going on last night?”

CNN political reporter Aaron Blake posted one of the president’s unhinged posts, noting, “Trump last night promoted a post that guaranteed Barack Obama will face a military tribunal.”

Meidas Touch co-founder Ben Meiselas posted screenshots of Trump’s Truth Social, saying, “Trump has made approximately 400 posts in the past hour which include posts like this.”

One of those posts included an interview Meiselas did with former Attorney General Eric Holder and Holder’s call for reforming the Supreme Court.

“Trump demanded that Republicans abolish the filibuster based on what Holder was telling me,” Meiselas writes in a Tuesday morning article titled, “Trump Attacks MeidasTouch in Midnight Mental Breakdown.”

“Shortly after Trump made the post about MeidasTouch, there was a brief pause, and then he began making new posts every 10 seconds for a full hour, totaling about 400 posts,” Meiselas explains.

“His posts included deranged claims that Michelle Obama ‘controlled Biden’s autopen’ and that Biden’s executive orders were really done by Michelle Obama. Trump posted an AI video claiming Nicolás Maduro surrendered to him and that Trump was now controlling Venezuela, and that Maduro admitted Tren de Aragua confessed [former President Joe] Biden was the leader of their cartel. Trump made posts saying Canada was involved in election rigging. He made bizarre posts about Obama’s weekly ‘kill list.’ I can go on and on, but you get the point,” he adds.

“Trump has posted hundreds of times in the past few hours. It’s a smorgasbord of propaganda e.g. 2020 election lies, blaming Pelosi for J6, calling Democrats seditionists, raging about illegals and Somalis, Biden and the autopen, the Obamas, Ilhan Omar [and] Tim Walz. Total insanity,” wrote Andrew—#IAmTheResistance on X.

The media have been so thoroughly co-oped and/or demoralized that last night’s episode, which absolutely would have provoked an immediate full-blown constitutional crisis if anything even remotely similar had ever happened with a previous president, is being under-reported to the point of complicity with the regime.

The whole thing raises extremely exigent questions about who has access to Trump’s Truth Social account, and whether Trump is falling asleep in the middle of the day because he is engaged in these manic episodes in the middle of the night. And of course it would be a national security crisis of the first order if someone other than Trump is posting as Trump from Trump’s personal social media account. More generally, the fundamental question is the extent to which we’re seeing a slow-motion mental, emotional, and physiological collapse of the president of the United States.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way. Levin could not have believed three months before that he could have gone quietly to sleep in the condition in which he was that day, that leading an aimless, irrational life, living too beyond his means, after drinking to excess (he could not call what happened at the club anything else), forming inappropriately friendly relations with a man with whom his wife had once been in love, and a still more inappropriate call upon a woman who could only be called a lost woman, after being fascinated by that woman and causing his wife distress—he could still go quietly to sleep. But under the influence of fatigue, a sleepless night, and the wine he had drunk, his sleep was sound and untroubled.

Anna Karenina