His raging gibberish exposes a president under pressure -- and a worsening mental state

[marmar]

Haunted by Epstein, Trump spirals further out of control
His raging gibberish exposes a president under pressure — and a worsening mental state

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published July 17, 2025 9:05AM (EDT)


(Salon) A perverted man from the grave is haunting Donald Trump. While it’s just the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, he is in a very real sense Jacob Marley to Trump’s Ebenezer Scrooge. I guess Christmas in July is a real thing.

This week, the Justice Department’s failure to release the Epstein files, as many pundits have gleefully noted, has led to the largest division yet in Trump’s MAGA minions. In a Wednesday morning Truth Social post, Trump admitted as much and declared those who are concerned about the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” are his “PAST” supporters and “I don’t want their support anymore!” Maybe he isn’t running for a third term after all.

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In a rare appearance on the White House’s South Lawn on Tuesday, Trump issued a rambling statement in an attempt to defend Attorney General Pam Bondi’s lack of action on the Epstein files. He stressed her credibility, but he sounded as if he were stringing together random sentences culled from private briefings, without any concern or knowledge that they made sense.

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“People, people I gotta tell you, I see a lot of glum, glum faces now. Please don’t be disconsolate. This is — this is politics at its finest,” we were told in the movie “Wag the Dog.” That’s also what we’re often told about the new Trump administration by the administration. If Trump’s first term was a Mike Judge movie – “Idiocracy” — then the current reality show Trump is orchestrating in the White House is much more like Barry Levison’s “Wag the Dog.” ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/17/haunted-by-epstein-trump-spirals-further-out-of-control/

[sop]

1. Trump's Captain Queeg moment.

Soon he'll be rolling two tiny metal balls around in his hand as he speaks.

[Aristus]

9. At least Queeg, whatever his other problems may have been, did render honorable service to his country

at one point in the past. That was the very subject of Barney Greenwald's closing monologue. Trump has never served anyone but himself.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Once again

We are hearing that “THIS is the worst thing EVER! He is having a meltdown! THIS is what will finally bring him down!” Been hearing this for ten years now.

[malaise]

3. K & R

Effer is afraid truth will out

[Justice matters.]

10. I am afraid the convicted pedofelon will send troops to Greenland.

To grab her by the kitty.

[malaise]

11. Hehehehe

Rec

[Torchlight]

4. I think Monday will be the tell

They'll have had all weekend to hammer out the one-liner responses and spin, and then we'll see how effective or not the response is and if his flock bows their heads in obeisance or not. In the meantime, they're reacting to a narrative rather than creating their own...and it's getting away from them.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. King Taco has a bad brain.

Considering the situation, it’s a good thing.

From the great read at Salon in the OP:

“You don’t have to be a genius to see something isn’t adding up here,” former Trump administration staffer Miles Taylor explained to me. “He’s not making this go away by his denials. Not this time.”

[Irish_Dem]

6. Excellent read. Sublime, accurate, well deserved snark.

[Auggie]

7. His smartest move might be to resign with the understanding Vance issues him a full pardon ...

for past, present and future crimes.

With the money he's already stolen t**** can easily pay off his civil trials and rot away in luxury in one of several Gulf States without a US extradition treaty.

[kimbutgar]

8. Hey Jake Tapper why aren't you reporting on his obviously mental breakdown?