WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025
So too with our dueling America(s): With Joe Scarborough MIA for the fourth straight morning, it fell to former senator Claire McCaskill to make the obvious statement.
Morning Joe's remarkably lengthy new ad breaks continued in the first hour of this morning's program. Even before the first ad break, Senator McCaskill issued her statement in guarded form. She was offering the most a Blue American analyst is currently permitted to say:
"This speech—he's not well. He's not well."
So said the former senator (D-Mo.), speaking about President Trump at 6:07 a.m. Stating the obvious, she was offering a guarded pronouncement about what used to be known as "mental illness."
Today, that term is said to be giving way to "mental disorder," a kinder and gentler locution. That said, we Blues don't know how to talk about this sort of thing, and we don't know how to understand this type of human situation.
Meanwhile, over there in Red America, the former cheerleaders, VJs, "wrestlers" and sideline reporters come tumbling onto the field of play, hailing the president's greatness. (These are the "jugglers and clowns" the prophet described long ago.)
We live in (two) America(s) now, as everyone already knows. As citizens, we tend to receive our (dueling) view(s) of the world from Silo Red or from Silo Blue, but under current arrangements, rarely the twain shall meet.
For her part, Senator McCaskill was saying that President Trump seems to be (what used to be called) mentally ill. She was referring to the rally-style speech he delivered last night way up in the Poconos—a speech in which, or so says this news report in the New York Times, he in part said such things as this:
Trump’s Speech on Economy Veers Into an Anti-Immigrant Tirade
Facing criticism for rising costs for American consumers under his administration, President Trump stoked fear of immigrants from poor countries to rally a crowd of his supporters at a Pennsylvania casino on Tuesday.
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Throughout the speech, Mr. Trump doubled down on a barrage of incendiary attacks that he has unleashed against immigrants since the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House last month. The day after the shooting, Mr. Trump floated the possibility of stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship (which is only done in rare cases) and vowed to deport all immigrants that he saw as “non-compatible with Western civilization.”
During his xenophobic tirade, Mr. Trump made little distinction between unauthorized migrants and those who followed all the correct procedures to enter the country and eventually become American citizens. He described Somali immigrants as lazy, murderous and “garbage,” and said the home countries of many immigrants were “filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
He singled out Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, referring to her hijab as “the little turban.” He again called for her to be deported, and the crowd responded by chanting, “Send her back.”
According to that news report, there he's gone once again! And the crowd did respond by chanting, "Send her back!" We'll link you to the videotape below.
We offer one word of caution:
We haven't been able to verify the claim that President Trump referred to Rep. Omar as "garbage" again. That assertion may be a mistake, although we can't yet be certain.
We can tell you this. The presence of the tragic condition once known as "mental illness" seems apparent to us today, just as it did yesterday—and early in Morning Joe's 6 o'clock hour, McCaskill said what little is permitted.
Under current rules of the game. she said what little is allowed. But with respect to Rep. Omar, the president also said such things as this last night:
PRESIDENT TRUMP (12/9/25): Prisons are emptied into our country, right? Where we have people from all over the world being dumped into our country, the people that aren't wanted in their countries. By the way, I think that's a great. Like Somalia, welcome.
Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the group? Please raise your hand. That's from Minnesota. You know that's called the great big Minnesota scam, with one of the dumbest governors ever in history.
I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little, the little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch. She's always complaining. She comes from a country where I mean, it's considered about the worst country in the world, right? They have no military. They have no nothing. They have no parliament. They don't know what the hell the word "parliament" means.
They have nothing. They have no police. They police themselves. They kill each other all the time.
I love it. She comes to our country and she's always complaining about, "The Constitution allows me to do this." The Constitution. We ought to get her the hell out. She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister? Beautiful, she's a beautiful person. If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about two hours, or would it be something less than that?
She married her brother to get in. Therefore, she's here illegally. She should get the hell out, throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain.
So now, and we have our savior in this room. His name is Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. Because that very handsome man, that man, by the way, if you're picking the Secretary of the Treasury, is he like the perfect guy for a movie? He's made for the movies.
Stand up, Scott! Look at him! No, he's central casting. He's central casting, but you don't under that beautiful exterior is a killer. And here's what happened:
He is in charge of the investigation of Somalia and the billions of dollars they have robbed from Minnesota, right? I hope you do your job. I hope you're not one of these Republicans where something comes up and they don't do what they should do because they're nicer people.
You know, they're much nicer people than the Democrats, but Scott's actually not a nice person at all. So Scott, you're in charge of that investigation. OK, I'm not interfering at all. I'm just saying please do a good job, honest and fair, right?
Honest and oh, if he's honest and fair, you know what he's going to find. It's great. I'd love to have that job. They may switch jobs with you. I'd love to have that job.
They ought to get them the hell out of here. They hate our country and she hates our country and her friends hate our country and AOC hates our country. They all do. And we have a new candidate in the great state of Texas, where I won Texas by more votes than anybody.
And you have to understand, I'm being judged by these bad people back there, the fake news.
The animatronic Secretary Bessent was physically present last night. Along the way, the sitting president—the person to whom McCaskill referred—had also offered such words as these:
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Shithole countries!
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I didn't say "shithole." You did!
Remember I said that to the senators? They came in, the Democrats. They wanted to be bipartisan, so they came in and they said, "his is totally off the record. Nothing mentioned here. We want to be honest because our country was going to hell."
And we had a meeting and I said, "Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few.
"Let's have a few from Denmark. Do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind?"
But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they're good at is going after ships. But they don't go after our ships, you know why? Because that same missile that knocks the crap out of them, with the drug dealers from Venezuela and others. That same missile, think of it from hundreds of miles away. They launch. We have the greatest military. We have the greatest equipment. We make the greatest equipment in the world. I bought more equipment. I had what we rebuilt the military in the first term. Then Stupid Joe gave a lot of it to Afghanistan, but it was still, it was a lot, but relatively little. But we're still adding to it a lot.
But I'll tell you what, that same, I'm looking at this big tough guy with the red hat on. I like that guy, but stand up. Let me just see what you look like. I don't. Nobody's going to mess with him. OK, he's central casting. Thank you very much. Very good. I see he's enjoying it. I like people that enjoy things because you've got to smile about this whole thing...
And so on, world without end amen, as he offered more product like that.
We can't verify the claim that he called Rep. Omar "garbage" again. But according to President Trump, Rep. Omar hates our country, and AOC hates it too.
(To see the chants of "Send her back," you can just click here.)
The speech ran roughly an hour and a half. The attempts to talk about the economy kept veering off into hellhole regions like those.
But also, and for whatever reason, this was the sixth straight day on Morning Joe in which no attempt was made to report or to discuss the endless slanders of Minnesota's Somali residents and of Omar herself.--the claim that they're "garbage" from "a shithole country," to which they should all be sent back.
Meanwhile, Denmark and Norway and Sweden oh my! That too went unmentioned on today's Morning Joe, perhaps by decree of the new set of corporate bosses (or not). But so it has gone every step of the way, with McCaskill finally offering the one tiny comment which is allowed, at this time, under the rules of the game
"He's not well," the former senator said—and then, nothing more was offered.
What was once called (serious) "mental illness" is a human tragedy. It's also a dangerous state of affairs if the world's most powerful person is so afflicted and is so impaired.
That said, all along the watchtower, Blue elites continue to agree—they must never report or discuss this fairly obvious state of affairs. And let us now mention the claim which was made about Rep. Omar's past marital status.
The claim has been made a million times. No fact-checker has ever authenticated it.
That said, the president bruited it all over again several times last night. At the garbage can known as the Fox News Channel, the slitherer known as Jesse Watters keeps reciting this slime-point too.
We'll link you to Watters most recent recitation as the week proceeds. For today, we'll tell you this:
The millionaire stars of our own Blue America's corporate press don't report or discuss what happens on the Fox News Channel. They don't report or discuss the conduct of Watters or Gutfeld or Perino, or of any of the other messenger children on that corporate messaging channel.
In trade for their multimillion-dollar checks—and this involves the silence of Rachel Maddow more than the silence of anyone else—they've agreed to let Red America be subjected to the onslaught of the mutts like Watters, with his repeated unsupported claims about Rep. Omar's past marital status. All the other messenger children—Perino and Ford and Tyrus—seem to know that they're being paid to sit there and let the claim pass.
In the past week, our Blues have avoided reporting the president's claims of "garbage" too. For whatever the reason might be, they keep refusing to go there—and in such ways, we get locked into a world of dueling America(s).
At present, our sibling nation(s) are caught in a swirl of topics. Involved are such topics as these:
The current swirl of topics:
The military strikes on the alleged drug boats
The massive fraud in Minnesota, which was first prosecuted by the Biden administration
The multifaceted question of affordability
The tragic (but dangerous) question of "mental illness"
These topics swirl, then double back. The sitting president "isn't well" is all we're permitted to hear.
Blue America's "journalists" agree not to say what they know and believe. The very large checks keep rolling in, and they agree to keep you in the dark in exchange for their own adherence to the corporate company line.
You'll hear the truth at this site alone. As the late Kevin Drum's work also proved, there's no such thing as information flow within our American system(s).
Tomorrow: What Rep. Omar said on Face the Nation. What the New York Times reported on Sunday, November 30
Friday or Saturday: What the corporate mutt Watters said on The Five, our most-watched "cable news" program
Access to videotape: C-Span offers videotape of the full ninety minutes. You can just click here, though there's no current way to search.
Needless to say, The Fox News Channel aired last night's oration in its entirety. For the start of the foofaw, just click here.
For the rest of last evening's bingbong, you can just click this.