Jim Acosta says Trump is in mental decline … LOL

Who?  Jim Acosta?  In case you forget – and he is eminently forgettable – Jim Acosta was an arrogant, obnoxious anti-Trumper on CNN until they wised up and booted him.  Weeell … he has escaped from journalism’s mortuary to peddle more of his irrational Trump-hating venom.  This time by playing psychiatrist.

In an article for Substack, Acosta writes that Trump is in serious mental decline – even worse than Biden.  He wrote:

“When Donald Trump was running to return to the White House, much was made of President Biden’s cognitive abilities. This reporter and others, though too few sadly, tried in vain to call attention to the unhinged elephant in the room – Trump’s mental state was a much bigger story.” 

And he says that Trump is still “spiraling further into incoherency.”  He added, “This is not hyperbole. This is simply stating the obvious to anyone who wants to face facts.”

It is not only hyperbole, but state-of-the-art hyperbole based on pure BS. Acosta is playing the same game that many on the left have been playing for months to deflect from Biden’s OBVIOUS decline in mental acuity.  It is called “whataboutism”.

The word “obvious” means readily apparent.  Acosta is essentially saying that his diagnosis of Trump is “readily apparent” to anyone facing his version of the facts.  LOL   I mean, really.  To whom is it readily apparent?  The distinction between the impaired Biden and the vigorous Trump is what is obvious … and readily apparent. 

Acosta further writes:

“Rather than being led by a boring yet competent president, America has a rapidly aging and raging Oval Office occupant who needs his own executive orders read out loud before he can sign them, much like a convalescing relative going over his last will and testament,”

What a hogwash.  The Executive Orders are summarized – not read verbatim– by an aide for the benefit of the press and the public before Trump signs them.  Acosta failed to note that Trump often comments on the EOs as he signs them.  Acosta’s attempt to spin everything to fit his mendacious narrative has surpassed the level of ridiculousness. 

And in case you missed it, Acosta referred to Biden as a “boring YET COMPETENT president”.  LOL I guess, if you are going to produce pure bs, you might as well go all the way.  But attempting to switch places between Biden and Trump on the issue of mental acuity is the pinnacle of outrageous nonsense.

Acosta says that National Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard is adding video recordings to the President’s daily briefing.  Acosta did not establish why he thought that was indicative of Trump’s mental decline, but we can assume.  Personally, I think it is a good idea to add videos to the news clips and memos that currently comprise the daily briefing summary.

Acosta claims that Americans are finally realizing that Trump is “not in a good place”.  I think Acosta is alluding to Trump being in the White House.  That is the fact – along with professional desperation — that seems to be driving Acosta crazy with a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

One can criticize Trump’s style – as I often have – but it is not mental decline, incoherency or age-related loss of mental acuity.  For better or worse, it is how the man has acted as long as I can recall.

We the people saw Biden’s condition despite an elaborate conspiratorial cover-up to conceal it.  By comparison, we see Trump out in public every day.  Talking at length to the press every day.  Answering scores of random questions without a filter, notes, scripts, or cheat sheets.  Giving long speeches — seldom using a teleprompter, and then only for a portion of his remarks.  Trump is extemporaneous while Biden has been tightly scripted for his entire presidency.

Whatever one might think of Trump’s policies or his personality, he seems to have more than average stamina for a man his age – and there is no, as in zero, indication of mental decline.  Au contraire.

What seems obvious in Acosta’s rant is a bitterness at having been demoted to a place of irrelevancy … a personal irrational and obsessive hatred of Trump (nothing new there) … and a level of arrogance that has marked and marred his character and career for years.

To be perfectly frank, I never liked the guy when he was flying high on CNN.  Too much biased propaganda.  In past commentaries, I even suggested that CNN dump him.  I take no credit for the decision, but CNN management appears to have seen what I saw – an arrogant man with an axe to grind pretending to be a journalist.  Nothing has changed.

So, there ‘tis

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