Media ignores 'crisis' as Trump slides further into 'cognitive decline': analysis

20 July

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during the White House Faith Office Luncheon at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 14, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

MSNBC Columnist Michael A. Cohen says it’s past time to reconsider President Donald Trump’s emerging mental illness.

“Right now, as we speak, the president of the United States is showing substantial … public evidence of possible cognitive decline,” writes Cohen. “Trump at times is unaware of what is happening inside his administration, can seem clueless about major policy events, and doesn’t always appear to understand the very legislation that he is promoting.”

Cohen ticks down a list of puzzling statements from the U.S. president that have no connection to reality. During a recent Pittsburgh summit, Trump claimed his uncle John Trump, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, despite Kaczynski never attending MIT.

He also fabricated a “what was that like?” conversation between Trump and his uncle that must have been impossible because his uncle had died years before Kaczynski was outed as the notorious bomber.

When asked to explain these obvious fabrications, Cohen says White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt admonishes and deflects. But Trump keeps racking up unreality and hallucinations, including the delusion that it was Biden who appointed Trump’s favored enemy Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, when in fact it was Trump.

“I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended (his tenure),” claims Trump, after first lamenting “I was surprised he was appointed.”

Only Powell “was appointed” by Trump in 2017. And there are other things that Cohen said appear to be creeping past the oblivious president. Certain big things, he said.

“Trump appeared to be unaware that his administration had paused military aid shipments to Ukraine, even going so far as to ask a reporter whether she knew who had ordered the halt,” Cohen reports.

It appears to be a “governing crisis” that the national media is happy to ignore, despite lavishing praise upon reporters who trumpeted the cognitive decline of former President Joe Biden.

“Axios reporter Alex Thompson was given the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence, in recognition of his ‘aggressive reporting on President Biden’,” Cohen notes, and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, wrote a bestselling book that explored the White House’s attempt to conceal his impairment.

“One can certainly debate the extent to which Biden was truly experiencing cognitive decline. But if reporters are going to argue that the media dropped the ball in not giving that story greater coverage, then how does one explain not even talking about what is happening right now?” asked Cohen.

Read the full MSNBC report at this link.

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