Trump is 'detached from reality' and 'may not make it to the end of his term': expert

Donald Trump "may not make it to the end of this term" according to political commentator Jim Acosta

Ex-CNN journalist Acosta says he cannot see how Trump, 79, makes it to 2029 as president after showing signs of rapid decline so soon into the first year of his second term. Acosta believes even those closest to the president have noticed the decline over the last year and are treating him less like a "dear leader" and more like "goodnight grandpa".

In an appearance on Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, Acosta suggested Trump may not make it to the end of his presidency. By the time Trump leaves office, the president will be 82-years-old, and coming up fast to his 83rd birthday.

Jong-Fast called recent cabinet meetings "North Korean style" with members of the administration heading up a round table where they praised Trump. Acosta added, "He was out. It was not just with Linda McMahon but Marco Rubio, it was several people around the table."

"You've gone from the dear leader treatment to the goodnight grandpa treatment. They're each taking turns putting Donald Trump asleep as they're going around the cabinet room these days. It seems to me like, this is not the same guy we saw on the campaign trail even like, a year and a half ago. I've been around him enough to know the contrast is there."

Further comments from Acosta suggested Trump may struggle to make it through the stresses of the presidency. Some telling parts of the second term may highlight this worry, including a lack of press conferences.

Acosta added, "He seems extremely tired. I will tell you, having covered him up close, where are the press conferences? He doesn't do press conferences. The most he can do now is he brings the little kids into the room and he screams at them and calls them names, and then he sends them away."

"That's the extent of him doing question and answer time is on Air Force One or in the Oval Office. He doesn't do rallies. That special election in Tennessee where he literally phoned it in. In the old days he would've done a hanger rally, but he doesn't do that anymore."

All of this seems to suggest Trump is going to struggle to the end of his presidency. Acosta added, "I did not think we would get to the end of this year and my prevailing thinking on Donald Trump is 'is he going to make it to the end of this term?'"

"Because he is more and more out to lunch by the day, he seems more detached from reality and just seems cognitively in a very different place than he was even a year ago. The naps, the Truth Social posts, the stuff he's saying about Somali immigrants. Some of this you can say 'isn't this the s**t he's been saying since 2015', yes, to some extent that's true, but it feels like, you know... there is something going on."