Brief encapsulations of last night's White House show, which US media chose to make freely available to a wide public:
Wajahat Ali: "Old man yells at clouds."
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Dan Froomkin: “'Desperate president yells lies' would be my headline."
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Randi Mayem Singer: "The guy with the nuke codes is stark raving mad."
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Old Man Yells at Clouds: Or, Trump's "Address" To The Nation
A tired, desperate, angry, and weak man appeared on live television to gaslight the world and convince them the horrors they now endure due to his policies and cruelty are in fact triumphs.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng: "Trump screams at Americans to like him in White House address to nation."
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Tim Miller: "It’s really unbelievably stupid that we’re here, that this person is the president, and that that was real."
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Simon Rosenberg: "Trump is unwell. It’ s not OK, and really dangerous."
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Trump Screams at Americans to Like Him in White House Speech
Andrew Perez (Zeteo)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •David Smith: "Surrounded by Christmas trees and garlands before a fireplace, Donald Trump on Wednesday gave a convincing rendition of Ebenezer Scrooge....
Trump unleashed a shouty stream of consciousness with barely a pause or punctuation mark."
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Stephen Collinson: "Donald Trump put a dark new spin on the tradition of national presidential addresses Wednesday."
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Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
David Smith (The Guardian)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •JoJoFromJerz: "Hot take: having an incoherent septuagenarian scream-lecture America like a man arguing with a self-checkout machine that keeps yelling 'unexpected item in the bagging area' might not actually be the emotional support animal we need right now."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Rex Huppke: "This was an angry loon, a street corner ranting nonsense with the cadence of someone reading possible side effects at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial."
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Tom Nichols: "Americans saw a president drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job."
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#Trump #MentalDecline #economy #affordability #ApprovalRating #bullying #Epstein #media
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Trump's crazed address was as unnerving as Biden's debate | Opinion
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Peter Rothpletz: "The president of the United States delivered a bizarre, seemingly drug-addled White House address in which he claimed to have brought peace to the Middle East for the first time in '3,000 years.'”
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Robert B. Hubbell: "I agree with commentators who suggested that Trump’s performance on Wednesday was either drug-altered or impaired by health issues."
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👋 Bon(gino) Voyage!
Peter Rothpletz (Zeteo)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Dan Pfeiffer: "Trump’s speech was a victory lap in which he described his tenure in ways that bear no resemblance to the reality people experience daily."
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Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims, and Judd Legum: "The networks have declined to air prime time speeches from the last two Democratic presidents, claiming they were too political."
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Why Trump’s Primetime Address Backfired Big Time
Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Aaron Parnas: "In 2014, some major TV networks refused to air Barack Obama’s address to the nation on immigration. In 2022, some networks refused to air Joe Biden’s address to the nation about the future of democracy. Tonight, however, every major network aired Trump’s speech in full, despite the fact that what viewers were given was essentially a campaign stump speech delivered from behind a presidential podium."
#Trump #MentalDecline #media
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I Watched Donald Trump's Speech So You Don't Have To: Here's What You Missed
Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Robert Reich's response to Trump's vile statements about the murder of the Reiners is apposite here:
"If Trump was once rational, he no longer is.
His response to the Reiner killings, like his AI post on October 18 in which he defecated on millions of protesters, reveals a depth of paranoia and grandiosity worse than anything he has shown before."
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The real threat in Trump’s madness
Robert ReichWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"I don’t want to alarm you, and I hesitate to even mention this, but I couldn’t sleep knowing that Trump has the power to launch a nuclear bomb."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Meanwhile, the man's insane rantings last night went on against this backdrop:
"Meryl Kornfield and Hannah Natanson of the Washington Post reported today on a court filing by lawyers for the government that claims it is legal for the administration to distribute federal money only to Republican-dominated states, withholding it from Democratic-dominated states."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #MentalDecline #bullying #retribution #FederalAid
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December 17, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Joey Garrison of USA Today reported yesterday that a senior White House official told him the Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. ...
Today, news broke that Trump has added plaques to the hall of portraits of former presidents hanging in the White House."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"A plaque under the photo of President Barack Obama says he 'was one of the most divisive political figures in American History,' who 'passed the highly ineffective "Unaffordable" Care Act.'
Under a photograph of an autopen, with which Trump replaced the portrait of Biden, the plaque begins:"
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“'Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction….'"
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Elliot Kirschner offers the full text of the plaques Trump has placed under Obama and Biden's portraits, stating,
"As you read them, consider how much effort went into making and installing these travesties. Consider the enablers and grifters who surround the president and pretend this is normal or sane."
#Trump #MentalDecline #retribution #WhiteHouse #portraits #Biden #Obama
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Trump's Walk of Shame
Elliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Consider the press, which even while reporting the story, cannot state the obvious conclusion: that this man is morally and psychologically unfit for office. He would be unfit to manage a lemonade stand."
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Kyle Memoir 🍉
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Here's a 14-day gift read of Nichols's Atlantic item:
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This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)