An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump said during a recent interview that the president's latest State of the Union revealed something disturbing about his grip on reality.
Trump has been accused of suffering from early-stage or full-blown dementia by a number of psychologists. While there were signs that Trump, 79, appears to be suffering from the effects of old age, the speech also showed something "devastating" about the president's reality that he seems to be trying to avoid acknowledging, according to journalist Michael Wolff.
Wolff discussed the president's speech on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast.
Wolff noted that the subtext of Trump's speech was that he and his MAGA fans see the world the way they want to see it.
"That was a subtext of the State of the Union and another indicative aspect ... We see the world the way we want to see it, even though everybody else sees it differently and knows that it is differently," Wolff said. "So, again, the State of the Union was Trump's reality. And then there's true reality, which is reflected everywhere, but specifically in recent polls, which are devastating to Trump."
Polling shows that Trump's approval rating increased from roughly 39% to more than 41% following his State of the Union. Even so, other polls show he is underwater on key issues like the economy and immigration.
"It's a totally fascinating moment because it is potentially that inflection moment," Wolff said. "He can't get anything right. And he can't even find the rhetoric to create a kind of consistent opposition to all of these things that are going wrong."