This article about the press’s insistence on covering demonstrations by the right at which “more than a dozen” protestors show up, against a history of minimizing or ignoring anti-war demonstrations drawing 10s of thousands of people, got me thinking about another eternal media mystery.
Why does the media insist on hardly noticing Trump’s ever increasing signs of mental illness.
On Sunday Trump emitted an average of one tweet every seven minutes. Needless to say, they were all about him or his grievances, even targeting Madonna for reasons that escape me. Parenthetically, it was Mother’s Day during a plague, but of course it never occured to him to make reference to the sacrifices that Mothers (fathers too) are making for their kids in these trying times. All in all, on that single day, he emitted more signs of mental illness than the average mentally ill person does in a week. On the continuum used back when I represented disability clients, he is extremely impaired. What’s particularly bad is that while he’s not particularly a danger to himself, he is quite definitely a danger to others.
I suppose the media would argue that this is not news, inasmuch as it is normal behavior for Trump. But the fact is, it is abnormal behavior for anyone, and people should know about it, not just the people who read blogs in addition to reading newspapers and/or watching television news. It is vitally important that people are confronted with the reality of the very sick man that we have in the White House. Believe it or not, his actions are actually worse, and deserve as much comment as, the act of wearing a tan suit.