'Deeply disturbing': Jim Acosta warns unstable Trump has 'finally snapped'

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., September 9, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci

Even as President Donald Trump rages about a judge ruling on his media ban, despite the decision not yet coming in, a journalist who Trump previously banned from covering him appeared on a podcast described him as unstable — and hinted that this has ominous implications for the American people.

"There's something deeply disturbing about this moment," Jim Acosta, who Trump targeted when he worked at CNN, told podcaster Molly Jong-Fast on Wednesday. "We can laugh and whistle past the graveyard and everything, but it's not normal to want to put your name on Ford's Theatre. It's not normal to want to put your name on the Kennedy Center. It's not normal to want snipers on top of a massive arch near Arlington National Cemetery that apparently is going to be packed with ammunition."

"That's definitely going to get built, in case you're wondering," Jong-Fast interjected.

"This is very Muammar Gaddafi," Acosta continued. "This is very Saddam-Hussein-in-the-spider-hole kind of stuff. And we can ignore it — I don't ignore it, I know you don't ignore it, but a lot of people ignore it. I think it's a bad idea to ignore it. I think we're going to wake up one morning and bad stuff's going to be going down, because that's it, he's finally snapped. I think we're on the verge of that right now. When I saw the Ford's Theatre thing, I was like, 'Wow.' I thought it was as weird as it was going to get, but apparently not."

Jong-Fast replied, "We really have elevated someone who is not that interested in governance, not at all interested in policy, super interested in narcissistic honoring of himself. And also, his frontal lobe is not functioning in the way you would want a frontal lobe to function."

Acosta agreed, replying that "I think it would not be a bad idea for things to be studied by scientists years from now."

Acosta is not alone in criticizing Trump's seeming lack of stability. On a psychological level, Dr. David M. Reiss — a psychiatrist who contributed to the book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President" — told AlterNet in September that Trump is clearly mentally deteriorating but benefits from a media that refuses to call this out.

"The press is treating it as if this is just him," Reiss told AlterNet. "No, this is a very disturbed — in a vernacular, deranged — person. He says things that don't make sense, goes on for two hours. This is not normal behavior, not productive behavior, and obviously a lot of it is lies. So the diagnosis really isn't relevant. What's relevant is: if this was a friend, if this was a relative, would you say this person needs help if they're not getting it — and if they are getting it, they should see a different doctor because it's not being treated effectively."

A different expert argued in June that Trump is also suffering from a physical decline.

“There is no tool for using A.I. to make that kind of a statement that is accepted in the cardiology community,” Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist who specializes in aging, told The New York Times. “It hasn’t been validated to a point where it could be used for biological age versus chronological age.”

He later added, “The doctors deserve praise and he deserves praise because of managing his cholesterol,” but noted that the doctors have been sparing about important details regarding his cardiovascular health. “It’s possible he has no buildup, but that should be specifically presented.”

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