Finally, Trump’s Worsening Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story

Is the media finally figuring out how to cover Donald Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency? First, CNN’s Jake Tapper dressed down a Trump surrogate for whitewashing Trump’s threat to unleash the military on his enemies. Then Trump held a strange town hall at which he abruptly stopped answering questions, which generated aggressive media coverage . And Kamala Harris has directly engaged on Trump’s mental state in a new way, drawing media attention to it. We talked to Brian Beutler, who often criticizes the media on his Off Message Substack , about the increasing signs that the press is treating Trump’s mental decline as a big story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices