Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2025

Trump has shown erratic and bizarre behavior throughout the year, leading to questions about his mental acuity

The Guardian

"new economic data paint an equally alarming picture of national decline. And as the fallout grows, Trump and his allies are scrambling for scapegoats, spinning conspiracy theories, and doubling down on racist rhetoric in a way that endangers not just our democracy, but the safety and dignity of millions of Americans."

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #MentalAcuity #economy #CabinetMeeting
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"This morning offered yet another sobering snapshot of a country in crisis under Donald Trump. While world headlines focus on the Trump’s visibly deteriorating physical and mental condition, including Der Spiegel documenting Trump nodding off during a disastrous cabinet meeting," (continued in /12)

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #MentalAcuity #economy #CabinetMeeting
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-afternoon-news-updates-c0d

Wednesday Afternoon News Updates - 12/3/25

By Ben Meiselas

Meidas+

“In short, the Cabinet meeting is a lens through which the chaos and dysfunction of the Trump administration can be viewed. It is not a pretty sight. Indeed, never in our nation’s history has such supreme incompetence and monstrous depravity so thoroughly disgraced a meeting of the Cabinet officers of the United States.”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/tuesdays-cabinet-meeting-equal-parts

Tuesday's Cabinet Meeting: Equal parts incompetence and cruelty. And naps.

December 3, 2025

Today's Edition Newsletter

"When he did rouse himself, he launched into meandering stories about cognitive tests he claims to have 'aced,' insisting they contain questions so difficult that '99% of the people from the fake news' would fail."

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
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"Just hours after posting up to 400 deranged social media messages overnight, pushing conspiracies about Michelle Obama secretly running the Biden White House, he arrived late to his own cabinet meeting. As members spoke, he repeatedly drifted into sleep."

~ Ben Meiselas

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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/dr-gupta-trumps-mri-excuse-raises

Dr. Gupta: Trump's MRI Excuse Raises More Questions Than Answers

New remarks from Meidas Health’s Dr. Vin Gupta underscore that the White House’s explanation for Donald Trump’s mysterious “torso MRI” defies all medical guidelines.

Meidas+

"Trump is barely alive, and almost unresponsive to this firehose of putrid adulation that used to inject him with life.

I’m really not sure whether to laugh or cry at this theater of the completely absurd I am witnessing, but I’m pretty sure indifference can’t be a viable option."

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
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"While he fights sleep, his grotesque collection of anti-vaxxers, stone-cold bigots, crooks, and multi-millionaires and billionaires in his cabinet are showering him with praise for the stellar job he is doing heaping all his hate on the world, while stuffing his bottomless pockets with millions and millions in kickbacks and blood money."

~ D. Earl Stephens

#Trump #MentalDecline #health #CabinetMeeting #MRI #MentalAcuity
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https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/the-bulldozer

THE (BULL)DOZER

The fading Trump spent his bizarre cabinet meeting Tuesday fighting sleep, before waking with a sickening fury ...

Enough Already

"Trump could not stay awake while his Cabinet members were praising him, and so we had the wild visual of Secretary of State Marco Rubio praising Trump as the only man who could end Russia’s war in Ukraine, gesturing at the president sitting next to him, who was, to all appearances, sound asleep.”

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“Trump is slipping. After he drew attention by posting wildly on social media last night, today’s meeting was clearly designed to demonstrate that the president is alert, active, and on top of things. But this made-for-television photo opportunity was anything but a display of competence:"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-2-2025

December 2, 2025

The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill everybody” is shaping up to be a fight over control of the United States government.

Letters from an American