{"id":47029,"date":"2020-10-09T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47029"},"modified":"2020-10-09T13:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:41:37","slug":"projection-trump-and-fox-news-attack-nancy-pelosis-mental-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47029","title":{"rendered":"PROJECTION: Trump and Fox News Attack Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s Mental Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mental state of Donald Trump has been questioned for many years, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34460\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">even in the earliest days of his presidency<\/a><\/strong>. More recently, however, the signs of his cognitive lapses are impossible to ignore. His frequent incoherent ramblings, blatant contradictions, and unbridled hostilities are clear symptoms of a severe psychological breakdown. And it isn&#8217;t helping matters that, due to his COVID-19 diagnosis, he&#8217;s on several medications that are known to produce mood disorders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-scream.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36745\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Trump is attempting to cast his cerebral decay onto his perceived political foes. It&#8217;s form of a psychotic response that seeks to <em>&#8220;project&#8221;<\/em> ones own faults onto others. Trump has been doing that for months to Joe Biden, but has utterly failed to make any of it stick. In fact, polls show that a majority of voters regard Trump as the one who <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46720\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t have the mental soundness to serve<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference to announce that she is sponsoring legislation that would codify the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/interactive-constitution\/amendment\/amendment-xxv\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution&#8217;s 25th Amendment<\/a><\/strong>, a key provision of which addresses how Congress can respond if <em>&#8220;the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.&#8221;<\/em> Despite the fact that Pelosi explicitly stated that this bill would not go into effect until after Trump&#8217;s term is over, he nevertheless took it personally and lashed out predictably on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crazy Nancy Pelosi is looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris. The Dems want that to happen fast because Sleepy Joe is out of it!!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1314591877765660675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump managed to demean both Biden and Pelosi in that childishly retaliatory tweet. Although he might not have understood exactly what he was he was saying because he&#8217;s actually conceding that Biden will be the president to whom the legislation will apply. But that didn&#8217;t stop Fox News from quickly agreeing and posting an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-pelosis-25th-amendment-move-dem-target-really-sleepy-joe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/strong> on their website with the headline, <em>&#8220;Trump and others question Pelosi&#8217;s mental fitness after she suggested pres. may not be fit for office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Pelosi has questioned Trump&#8217;s mental fitness, as have many others. However, the <em>&#8220;others&#8221;<\/em> mentioned in Fox&#8217;s headline as questioning Pelosi&#8217;s fitness consist of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and &#8230; well, that&#8217;s it. No one else is mentioned at all. Trump, however, has worked overtime to disparage Pelosi with another of his infantile nicknames, <em>&#8220;Crazy Nancy.&#8221;<\/em> He has used that derogatory label at least 33 times on Twitter just this year. That&#8217;s about once a week. But Trump has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41608\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">called many others on his enemies list crazy<\/a><\/strong> as well, including Robert Mueller, Bernie Sanders, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s behavior bespeaks an inherent weakness of character. He is incapable of forming an intelligible argument to reply to his critics, so he resorts to these impotent and immature tactics out of frustration and fear. And these emotional anchors are only going to weigh on him more in the coming weeks as the election, and his impending loss, draws closer. Which might explain behavior like that he demonstrated while co-hosting Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s radio show on Friday. While discussing his foreign policy conflicts with Iran, Trump dropped an F BOMB on the national broadcast. And if that aint crazy&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.\u201d \u2014 the President of the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfDKchaw7i\">pic.twitter.com\/RfDKchaw7i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1314627983471239168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mental state of Donald Trump has been questioned for many years, even in the earliest days of his presidency. More recently, however, the signs of his cognitive lapses are impossible to ignore. His frequent incoherent ramblings, blatant contradictions, and unbridled hostilities are clear symptoms of a severe psychological breakdown. And it isn&#8217;t helping matters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,684,1200],"tags":[554,1140,33,377,130,71],"class_list":["post-47029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-rush-limbaugh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cex","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44536,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44536","url_meta":{"origin":47029,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Vile Attacks on Joe Biden&#8217;s Mental Health Blow Up In His Face","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/25\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"While America and the world are struggling to cope with a deadly international pandemic, Donald Trump is crassly exploiting the crisis for his own political aspirations. 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