WHAT IS MENTAL ILLNESS: The Democrats are the party of Satan!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2025

So he now has said: Go ahead and ask:

Has mental illness been playing a role in the events of this week?

We're speaking here of severe mental illness—mental illness of the serious kind. Has some such form of severe mental illness been involved in the week's events? 

If so, it's as we've been telling you for a very long time. You won't read about it in the New York Times, where they've been telling you this:

Nothing to look at! Just move along! Nothing to look at here!

You won't read about possible "mental illness" in the New York Times. To receive your intimations about that possible part of the realm, you have to journey to Mediaite, where the most prominent report, this very morning, appears beneath this astonishing headline:

Trump Deems Democrats ‘The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan’

Yes, that's what the headline says! And yes, that's what the sitting president has now directly said.

Below, we'll give you the link to that latest Truth Social post. But the news report at Mediaite does include this text:

Trump Deems Democrats ‘The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan’

President Donald Trump deemed Democrats the party of “Satan” on Thursday amid the ongoing shutdown of the federal government.

[...]

On Thursday night, the president went on a mini-posting spree on his Truth Social platform, during which he falsely claimed that he had presided over “record Black employment.”

Perhaps the most notable post, however, was a collage of prominent Democrats, including Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and former President Joe Biden.

“The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan,” text on the image read. “The Democratic Party is Dead! They have no leadership! no message! no hope! their only message for America is to hate Trump!”

There's a bit more to the report. But to see that astonishing Truth Social post, you can just click here.

With that post, the world has changed. Unless we're determined to hide our eyes, the whole world is different now.

Full disclosure! You won't be reading about that post at the New York Times—or you won't be reading about it much. For better or worse, the Times has been whistling past that societal graveyard for a good long time by now.

For better or worse, Times personnel have kept averting their gaze from what has been right there before them. It is that refusal (or that inability) to see and report what's there in the world to which Lawrence O'Donnell referred last night.

He did so right at the start of his most recent diatribe. You can see the opening monologue from last evening's Last Word program at the program's site. 

Once again, O'Donnell went where the "madness" meets the road. If you click to the Last Word site, these are the headlines which summarize the monologue you'll be seeing:

Lawrence: We are clearly seeing madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Donald Trump posting racist fake videos while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown reveals how Trump’s “madness … has reached new extremes that we haven't seen before even from Donald Trump.”

That's the summary at the Last Word site. Last evening, at 10 o'clock sharp, here's the way O'Donnell  started:

O'DONNELL (10/2/25): Well, the New York Times is lost. 

The New York Times is still the greatest newspaper in America by far, and one of the greatest newspapers in the world. But tonight, the New York Times is lost.

The New York Times has no idea how to cover the madness of Donald Trump. And so the New York Times ignores it, just as the madness of King George the Third had to be ignored by the London Times in 1789.

So said O'Donnell, at the start of a monologue in which he went on to trash the Times for its inability, or for its refusal, to cover the presidents "madness." They simply don't know how to do it, Lawrence essentially said.

At this site, we've been floating these points of concern for a very long time. We first cited the 1994 feature film, The Madness of King George, at least as far back as April 30, 2019. 

We went there again at the start of this year as we considered the unusual behavior of the president as he started his second and perhaps final term.

At this point, full disclosure:

"Madness" is a colloquial term. It isn't part of clinical diagnostic language. 

Last night, O'Donnell was making an obvious claim. Plainly, he was saying that some form of serious mental illness is involved in what the president has been doing of late—and if you watch his entire monologue, please consider this:

He hadn't seen the president's new Truth Social post at that point in time! He hadn't seen that remarkable post when he continued along from there, saying that the New York Times—and the entire Washington press corps—doesn't have the slightest idea how to cover this "madness."

Again, "madness" isn't a medical term. We also remind you of this:

Any form of severe "mental illness" (the term "mental disorder is now said to be widely preferred) starts as an obvious personal tragedy—as a tragic loss of human potential and capability.

The person gripped by the "mental illness" didn't ask to be so afflicted. For example, he didn't ask to be born to a sociopath, if that's part of the tragic roll of the dice which brought his status low.

That said:

In the case of a major political figure, the presence of some such severe disorder is also a danger for the world. As he continued, O'Donnell gave his due to the greatness of the New York Times—he wouldn't know how to do better, he said—but he also mocked the way the editorial board of that paper analyzed the situation we're in with respect to government shutdown.

O'Donnell isn't a medical specialist. In that sense, much that he said last night took him out over his skis once again. That said:

It seems to us, as it does to O'Donnell, that the president's ongoing behavior—the behavior reported at Mediaite—raises an obvious question about that possible medical tragedy, and about the concurrent danger to the world.

Fullest of full discourses:

At a time of intense tribal division, there is no chance—no chance at all—that you will be able to get the president's tribe to agree on a claim like the claim being made by O'Donnell. 

Also, there's no way to establish the ultimate truth concerning what O'Donnell has said. Meanwhile, though, and once again:

The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan!

Remarkably, that's the accusation which screams out from the presdident's latest post. People like Vance and Cruz, and Gutfeld and Watters, will find ways to laugh it all off. 

In fairness, Gutfeld and Watters get paid to perform that service. So does the endlessly uncomplaining Dana Perino.

In his monologue, O'Donnell described the way the New York Times keeps averting its gaze from the situation at hand. Once again, a bit of disclosure:

Mental illness—"mental disorder"—is a complex, challenging concept. Physical illness is quite straightforward. So-called mental illness is hard.

What does it even mean if we say that the president may be so afflicted in some serious way? That isn't an easy question to answer—and the mainstream press, from the New York Times on down, has sworn a blood oath, an oath it has kept:

Such questions must never be asked!

Such questions must never be asked! So the press has aggressively said.

At this site, we've shown you, many times, what the president's niece said about her uncle's mental health in her best-selling 2020 book, Too Much and Never Enough. We won't go there again today, but this is the way Simon & Schuster fashioned its author line:

MARY L. TRUMP, PH.D.

The author line was designed to stress the author's academic knowledge, along with her experience as a clinical psychologist. As she listed her uncle's impressive collection of apparent "psychopathologies," she said he might well be a "sociopath," though she made the point that "sociopath" isn't a technical term either.

Colloquially, a sociopath is often thought of as someone who lacks empathy. Stating the obvious, we all lack empathy to some degree—but according to medical science, some people lack that capacity much more than the typical person does.

Nicholas Kristof is off in the world showing what empathy looks like. Kristof appeared on last evening's Last Word. He's showing us what empathy looks like as children are dying around the world from Elon Musk's termination of USAID.

Such empathy itself is now dead to the world. There will be no room for any such archaic feelings until the current tribal war has somehow been resolved.

Are we currently dealing with some sort of mental illness? We'd like to see (carefully selected) medical specialists answer carefully crafted questions about that very topic!

At the New York Times and around the dial, the press has agreed that that must never happen--and it may be just as well that they've done so.  The woods are lovely dark and deep, but even here in our own self-impressed Blue America, our intellectual shortcomings go on and on and on.

They wouldn't know what questions to ask. They wouldn't know how to care, how to think or feel.

At present, we're all faced with the need to come to terms with the various things the sitting president is now saying and doing. We advise you to pity the child, then to proceed from there.

What does it mean when the sitting president keeps saying things, on Truth Social, like the statement he issued last night?

Vice President Vance will be willing to say that it's nothing but a good, funny joke. Watters and Gutfeld will keep snapping their towels—and by the way, their furiously angry tribe has almost surely already won. (We Blues largely earned our way out.)

Dana Perino won't say a word as other women get trashed as "livestock." Senator Cruz (Harvard Law School) will continue placing those sombreros on every Democrat's head!

Democrats are the party of Satan! That's what the afflicted has said!

Lawrence got over his skis once again. Having said that, we'll also say this:

On balance, we'd have to say that Lawrence's aim has been true.

Atop the front page of today's print editions: Atop the front page of the New York Times:

Voters Believe U.S. Can’t Heal Deep Divisions
 Poll Shows a Shift Even Before the Shutdown