If the Democrats are going to start purloining Republican ideas, it would be refreshing if they started pushing for fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, secure borders, and pride in American culture and history. Instead, their cribbing from the patriotic playbook so far includes only one tactic: claiming that President Donald Trump is not in his right mind, just as Old Joe Biden was non compos mentis during the four years he pretended to be president.
This isn’t even a new theft, as “Trump has dementia” bots, pseudo-experts and self-appointed neurologists have been at it for years on Twitter/X, even as Trump conducts lengthy off-the-cuff press conferences with a command of the issues that few presidents in the modern age have ever even attempted to display. Nevertheless, they have persisted, and now the Guardian has hauled it out again in the wake of Trump’s epic trolling of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer over the Schumer Shutdown: sombrero memes, you see, are a sign that “the president is unhinged.”
That’s right: the people who think that Rachel Levine is a woman and that primary school libraries should be stocked with pornography and propaganda think that President Trump is “unhinged” because he made fun of Democrats. It’s absurd, but there is also an ominous edge to it: the left is showing its true authoritarian colors on an increasingly frank and frequent basis, and so it should be remembered that the Soviet Union often declared its ideological opponents to be mentally unbalanced, and then subjected them to “treatment.” If Trump is unhinged for making fun of leftist leaders, imagine what these totalitarians will do to rank and file patriots if they get the power to victimize them.
The Guardian began soberly enough, asserting that “to many observers, both in the US and abroad, Donald Trump has been behaving strangely recently. Especially online.” The evidence of Trump “behaving strangely”? Well, “as a government shutdown loomed in the US last week, the president posted an AI video which depicted Hakeem Jeffries, the first Black House minority leader, wearing a sombrero and exaggerated moustache, with mariachi music playing in the background.”
To the Guardian, mocking Democratic leaders is not only “racist,” “dangerous,” and “reprehensible”; it’s also a “situation where Trump’s behavior has seemed unusual.” The Guardian then went on to make much out of a post that Trump put up and deleted. If doing that is a sign of dementia, most of the known world would be demented.
Then we get Trump’s claim “against most existing evidence” that “Tylenol could contribute to autism if women take it during pregnancy.” Wow, invoke the 25th Amendment, right away! But back in the real world, it’s worth noting that the Guardian did not bother to mention Tylenol’s now-famous 2017 tweet: “We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant.”
At this point, the Guardian gives us some malapropisms and odd statements from Trump, without noting that Trump has always spoken in much the same way, and that everyone in the world has mangled syntax and uttered incomplete or incomprehensible statements once in a while.
Another bit of evidence that Trump is unhinged, according to the Guardian, anyway, was his speech to the nation’s military commanders last Tuesday. “Barry McCaffrey, a retired general, told MSNBC that Trump’s performance was ‘one of the most bizarre, unsettling events I’ve ever encountered. The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times stupid, meandering, couldn’t hold a thought together.” The Guardian doesn’t mention the fact that McCaffrey is a longtime Trump critic who served in the Clinton administration and was a harsh critic of George W. Bush before Trump ever thought of taking a ride down the escalator.
And so it goes. We also get “Madeleine Dean, a Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania,” telling House Speaker Mike Johnson that “the president is unhinged. He is unwell.” Sure. But you will search in vain for any Guardian feature on Old Joe Biden’s mental state that was published while the senescent corruptocrat was shuffling feebly around the Oval Office. Instead, in June 2023, we got a story about how “in 2019, a manipulated video spread through social media platforms showing Joe Biden on stage telling an audience that he ‘shouldn’t be president.’ Biden’s voice had been slowed down, giving the impression he was slurring his words, while footage from a real speech he gave at an Iowa university was edited to cut out context, splice together clips and make it seem like he was calling himself ‘Slow Joe Biden.’”
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It was all dirty tricks from dastardly patriots, you see: “It was a full year before Biden formally became the Democratic nominee for president, but already the narrative that he was in serious cognitive decline was beginning to take shape. Over the course of the 2020 presidential race, a procession of far-right meme-makers, Republican party operatives and Trump campaign officials would suggest Biden was losing it. More deceptively edited videos circulated, Fox News hosts claimed Biden was senile, attack ads ran suggesting he was mentally unfit and Donald Trump tweeted that his opponent had ‘dementia.’”
Now, the Guardian professes to be deeply concerned about Trump’s mental state, with nary a shadow of a hint of the idea that such concerns could all be leftist propaganda. That’s the way the leftist media works. And if you notice the hypocrisy and inconsistency, well, that just proves that you’re a racist and a bigot, now, doesn’t it?
