A long rambling story Donald Trump told about his uncle this week, none of which was true, has raised fresh alarms that his advanced age and the pressures of the job appear to have him trapped in a downward spiral.
Speaking at a technology summit in Pittsburgh this week, the president told that crowd that his uncle John, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), taught Ted Kaczynski –– better known as the Unabomber.
That would have been difficult since, as MSNBC's Michael A. Cohen wrote, "John Trump passed away in 1985. Kaczynski committed bombings that killed three people and wounded nearly two dozen others from 1978 to 1995. He was finally arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison in 1998. If both the president and his uncle knew that Kaczynski was the Unabomber more than a decade before his arrest ... now that would be a story!"
Combined with President Trump pinning blame on ex-President Joe Biden for the appointment of Jerome Powell to the Fed, when Trump was responsible, the MSNBC analyst expressed alarm that Trump is still repeating the debunked stories with gusto as he becomes even more detached from facts.
"Trump’s Unabomber tale is yet another example of the what can feel like an increasing disconnect from reality. Yet, as with so many of Trump’s recent and unsettling statements, too many in the mainstream media seem uninterested in covering the story, " Cohen wrote.
He then cautioned, "Right now, as we speak, the president of the United States is showing substantial, arguably greater public evidence of possible cognitive decline. 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."
He added that press is ignoring what is right in front of their faces, after a steady diet of stories about ex-President Joe Biden's decline.
"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?" he asked.
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