SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2025
Or so Michelle Goldberg has said: In yesterday morning's report, we focused on a Truth Social post which appeared, late in the night, on Christmas Eve. In that post, the president said this might be the last "Merry Christmas" our nation's many "sleazebags," all of them Democrats, will be able to enjoy.
It struck us as a somewhat threatening post. We wondered how some disordered person might react to such a post.
As it turned out, that was just one of the many Truth Social posts the president issued on Christmas Eve / Christmas morning. To its credit, NBC News ran a news report about the president's blizzard of posts. Its news report appeared beneath this dual headline:
Trump rings in Christmas Day with a flurry of posts denouncing perceived foes and casting doubt on the 2020 election
The president posted on Truth Social over 100 times overnight, also touting his own economic policies and efforts to end foreign wars.
Say what? According to NBC News, the president had posted more than 100 times on that one sacred night! And he hadn't just been denouncing his foes. He'd also been pushing his favorite lunatic claim—the lunatic claim he never stops making about the 2020 election.
So said NBC News, politely describing a blizzard of posts as a mere late December "flurry."
More than a hundred posts, advancing the same old lunatic claims? Could something be (tragically) wrong with this vastly powerful man?
That strikes us as an obvious question at this point in time. Meanwhile, some news orgs continued to count the president's posts after NBC News and several other news orgs gave up. The headlines blared as shown:
Mother Jones:
Trump Spent Christmas Posting Over 100 Times on Truth Social
The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump’s Christmas of Chaos: Hosting a Rebranded Kennedy Center Honors, Over 100 Angry Truth Social Posts
The Daily Beast:
Trump Posts Nearly 150 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The New Republic:
Trump Descends Into Paranoid Spiral on Christmas Day: Donald Trump posted more than 150 times—including about Jeffrey Epstein.
Time:
Trump Posted More Than 160 Times on Truth Social in Late-Night Blitz. That’s Not Even His Record
Time said the president had produced more than 160 posts! The Daily Beast and The New Republic stopped counting at 150, then headlined words like "paranoid" and "unhinged" with respect to the president's spree.
("Unhinged" is one of the words our journalists use to suggest that something is (tragically) wrong with this man—to suggest that something is wrong, without coming out and saying so, and without asking medical specialists to offer their assessments.)
Is something wrong with President Trump? All along the watchtower, the biggest news orgs in Blue America have agreed that they must never ask.
Regarding this latest explosion of strangeness, The Hollywood Reporter reported this news. The New York Times has not.
As best we can tell, readers of the New York Times haven't been told what the president did. This is part of a "see no illness" approach this newspaper has adopted all along with respect to the apparent madness of this unending behavior.
Is something wrong with President Trump? If so, that's a human tragedy, as is always true in such situations—but the story doesn't end there.
President Trump is the most powerful person in the world! Presumably with that in mind, Michelle Goldberg ends her new column for the New York Times with a sobering comment in her penultimate paragraph:
Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
[...]
Much of the credit for the reinvigoration of the resistance belongs to Trump himself. Had he focused his deportation campaign on criminals or refrained from injuring the economy with haphazard tariffs while mocking concerns about affordability, he would probably have remained a more formidable figure. He’s still a supremely dangerous one, especially as he comes to feel increasingly cornered and aggrieved. After all, by the time you read this, we could well be at war with Venezuela, though no one in the administration has bothered to articulate a plausible rationale for the escalating conflict.
Goldberg believes that President Trump has lost his struggle for control of the nation's politics. She believes that he's on the way down and that he won't be rising back up.
In that, she may be right. But crazy people sometimes do crazy things when their crazy efforts have finally failed—when they "come to feel increasingly cornered and aggrieved."
The president is still "supremely dangerous," Goldberg says—and that could be the case. Meanwhile, her newspaper's news division is still refusing to report this president's extremely strange conduct.
They do the same thing on the Fox News Channel! If he really does shoot a man on Fifth Avenue, will the timorous New York Times report that unfortunate fact?
ReplyDelete"and casting doubt on the 2020 election"
Say, what? Jeez, you idiot-Democrats sure sound idiotic.
There's no "casting doubt"; the election was rigged, everyone knows it. And neither the President nor anyone else ever had any doubts whatsoever about it.
In any case, Democrat squealing is good, very good. Always good. Yes, Democrats, keep reading President's unofficial messages, keep counting them, and keep squealing about them.
And you Mr. President, keep draining the swamp, Sir. Keep draining the swamp, please.
And so everything goes as it should. Perfect. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
As long as child rapists are in charge, the Right are happy.
DeleteI still can't believe the shameless media tried to give them the inflation alibi.
“Everyone” knows no such thing. He lost by 7.8 million votes. 81,283,501 to 74,223,975. Everyone knows THAT.
Delete7.1 million. Or 51.3% to 46.8%
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DeleteYou really don't know, idiot-Democrat, that presidential elections are lost and won by electoral votes? You don't know that in the US of A, which is a federation, national totals are irrelevant? Are you really so ignorant? Yes, I bet you are.
DeleteAnd in any case, idiot-Democrat, the Autopen could've been installed by all 100% of the vote, for all I care.
The election was rigged, and that's the truth. It's the truth and common knowledge.
There is no credible evidence the 2020 election was rigged.
DeleteTrump got stomped, and by a milquetoast old White man.
Trump lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College in 2020.
Trump downplays the popular vote because in 2024 he only received votes amounting to about 30% of the electorate, he got less than 50% of those that voted, most people voted against Trump and for someone else.
Trump denies signing the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, we still do not know who signed it.
It is obvious 1:09 does not believe the 2020 election was rigged, he is just a poor lost soul begging for attention.
Sleepers don't like being awakened out of their dreams, when reality is difficult and uncertain. Goldberg wrote, no one in the administration has bothered to articulate a plausible rationale for the escalating conflict [with Venezuela]. Has she not watched all the pressers by Rubio and others discussing how Venezuela is virtually a criminal enterprise, how drugs are destroying America? Trump people hardly ever stop talking about why Maduro's evil needs to be ended.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be nice if the US had no real problems? If everything could be fixed by merely getting that crazy old man to shut up, so we could get back to sleep?
David in Cal knows Trump needs a war before January 20th, so Trump can quadruple the federal deficit in less than a year.
DeleteHopefully, David gets a mention when Trump receives the highest honor from the United States government for doing so.
"drugs are destroying America"
DeletePutin blackmailing Trump is destroying America more than Trump's Adderall addiction.
Putin is blackmailing Trump to gut the country's infrastructure and make life more precarious for it's people. Trump's Adderall addiction is only leading to goofball shit, like his delusional Truth Social postings, and naming things after himself before he dies in the next 6 months.
Don't expect Somerby to muse about the media ignoring Trump's dementia, unless he can pin it on the Left.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of today's essay is the payoff -- the NY Times and Fox are just the same, says Somerby!
Delete"Meanwhile, her newspaper's news division is still refusing to report this president's extremely strange conduct.
They do the same thing on the Fox News Channel!"
Does anyone really believe that if Trump shoots someone, anywhere, the NY Times will not report it? Trump shot up Nigerians on Christmas Eve and the NY Times reported that. They've reported the war against Venezuelan fishing boats. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't report it if he shot someone on Park Ave. with a handgun or automatic weapon. Meanwhile, I think the Times is correct to consider the president's empty blathering and threats to be posturing of the type he does every day, and thus not news at all. Somerby has never understand what makes a story news or not, It is a shame he didn't get a Journalism/Communications degree instead of pretending to study philosophy at Harvard.
"Is something wrong with President Trump? All along the watchtower, the biggest news orgs in Blue America have agreed that they must never ask.
ReplyDeleteRegarding this latest explosion of strangeness, The Hollywood Reporter reported this news. The New York Times has not.
As best we can tell, readers of the New York Times haven't been told what the president did. "
Somerby has apparently decided that all of the media he chooses to follow must report news in the same manner and to the same extent as each other, or...what?
Somerby's expectations are arbitrary and have never been justified by him, to my knowledge. Are we supposed to care whether some Manhattanite who reads only one source, the NYTimes, will not know that Trump is now considered paranoid? To what end?