{"id":70903,"date":"2026-10-01T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70903"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:18:24","slug":"trumps-absolutely-bonkers-interview-with-time-affirms-that-his-brain-has-turned-to-mush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70903","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Absolutely BONKERS Interview with Time Affirms that His Brain Has Turned to Mush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most media averse president in American history, Donald Trump, has just given an interview to TIME, another news organization that he considers to be <em>&#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/em> And yet, he still whines annually when he doesn&#8217;t grace their cover as <em>&#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's Absolutely BONKERS Interview with Time Affirms that His Brain Has Turned to Mush%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70903\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump's Absolutely BONKERS Interview with Time Affirms that His Brain Has Turned to Mush%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70903\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-straight-jacket-insane.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Insane, Straight Jacket\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new interview is a long and tedious read that weaves aimlessly through a variety of issues including <em>&#8220;the war in Iran, the artificial intelligence boom, the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court, and his outlook for the midterms.&#8221;<\/em> But there is almost nothing newsworthy in the whole thing because Trump just dodges the questions he&#8217;s asked, and wanders off into unrelated matters that fulfill his obsession with exalting himself. Which is typical of Trump, a malignant narcissist who has always had a tenuous connection to reality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70849\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Says the Media are \u2018Sick, Treasonous, Demented\u2019 \u2018SLEAZEBAGS\u2019 \u2013 Because They Cover Him?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After wading through the lengthy barrage of bullshit, it was clear that there is nothing left of whatever cognitive capacity Trump possessed. His answers barely touched on the subject matter of the questions. But they predictably concluded with effusive praise for himself. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/10\/01\/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\">full transcript of the interview is here<\/a><\/strong>, for those with time on their hands and strong stomachs. But this article will just address the portion of the interview where Trump discussed the media.<\/p>\n<p>Time&#8217;s staff began with a question about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70807\" target=\"_blank\">his recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico<\/a><\/strong> from covering certain presidential events because he didn&#8217;t like how they covered him. His ban was a blatant violation of the Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment, which a federal court affirmed and ordered Trump to revoke the ban.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>QUESTION: <\/strong>Why should Americans believe that you respect the free press when you&#8217;re restricting access to the White House to some of our colleagues?<br \/>\n<strong>TRUMP: <\/strong>Because I do respect the free press, but I don&#8217;t respect fake news. I&#8217;ll give you an example. CNN and MSDNC, which is MS Now\u2014they changed the name because it does so poorly. But I won the election <em>[then rants about winning elections that he didn&#8217;t win, by margins that he never reached]<\/em> It&#8217;s very important, 86% popular vote. Everything, and very conclusively, I haven&#8217;t had a good story on CNN for years. They&#8217;re incapable of being\u2014they&#8217;re fake news. Same thing on MS NOW. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe in fake news. And I know it&#8217;s fake because I know the thing\u2014I don&#8217;t mind, you know, if I do something wrong, I don&#8217;t mind having a bad story&#8230;I&#8217;m in the Oval Office. I mean, the public is very smart. If I wasn&#8217;t doing a good job, I wouldn&#8217;t have won that election by a lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s preposterous for Trump to claim that he respects the free press that he banned. But he didn&#8217;t remain on that topic for long. He quickly diverted to bragging about his imaginary electoral successes, including having won 86% of the popular vote For the record, Trump never won anywhere near 86%. In 2024 he won 49.8% of the vote, just 1.5% more than Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Then Trump wrapped up by noting that if he <em>&#8220;wasn&#8217;t doing a good job, I wouldn&#8217;t have won.&#8221;<\/em> Let&#8217;s see how he approaches that after the midterm elections in November that his MAGA Party is predicted to lose, and whether he still thinks then that <em>&#8220;the public is very smart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump then complained about a judge that he said was <em>&#8220;very anti-Trump,&#8221;<\/em> who ruled that his banning of the free press was unconstitutional. That judge was appointed by Trump. He was reminded of that and was asked whether he would comply with the ruling. His response suggests that he doesn&#8217;t even know what a ruling is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong> You don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re ignoring what he ordered you to do? You don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re ignoring his order?<br \/>\n<strong>TRUMP:<\/strong> No, I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m not ignoring his order. I&#8217;m just saying that when I don&#8217;t have to go out of my way, these people write only bad stories. When they say orders, what order? I&#8217;m not even aware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Trump says that he isn&#8217;t ignoring the court&#8217;s order, he just isn&#8217;t going to comply with it because he doesn&#8217;t know what what it is. See? That isn&#8217;t insane at all, is it? Nor is it wackadoodle to explain why he&#8217;s banning the media by complaining that a reporter is allegedly unhappy, as he does in his next response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong> Can I just ask, why now? You&#8217;ve had this contentious relationship with the media for a while. What was the impetus to doing this at this moment in time?<br \/>\n<strong>TRUMP:<\/strong> Well, it&#8217;s just bad story after bad story&#8230;I don&#8217;t think anybody should be forced to bear fake news, constantly bad stories, because I&#8217;ve done great things&#8230;.So at a certain point, you say, &#8220;What&#8217;s the purpose of like this crazy Kaitlan Collins?&#8221; She&#8217;s a very average person. She&#8217;s the most unhappy young person I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s problem with CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins is that she doesn&#8217;t smile when she&#8217;s asking him questions about serious subjects. Although he has never asked any male reporters to smile more. And this is his reason for banning CNN? That actually doesn&#8217;t comport with a different reason he gave recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70838\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Says He Banned the Media Because it is a \u2018Threat to National Security and Must Be Stopped\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The national security excuse is one that Trump has been leaning on lately. He has used it to justify the building of his vanity ballroom and his triumphal arch. Even worse, he&#8217;s threatening to use it to justify declaring martial law in order to steal the election. None which makes any sense at all. It&#8217;s just further proof that his mind was turned to cottage cheese and that he needs to be institutionalized for his own safety and that of the nation, and the world. ASAP!<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70899\" target=\"_blank\">Deranged Trump FREAKS OUT: Says Fox News Gives More Airtime to Democrats than MAGA Sicko-phants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70893\" target=\"_blank\">GOOD NEWS: Trump Will Be Campaigning for Republicans \u2018Every Single Day\u2019 Until the Election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70874\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Attorney Genuflect, Todd Blanche, Flat Out Lies About Trump Denying Access to the Media<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most media averse president in American history, Donald Trump, has just given an interview to TIME, another news organization that he considers to be &#8220;fake news.&#8221; And yet, he still whines annually when he doesn&#8217;t grace their cover as &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221; Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,14,8,16],"tags":[1137,554,95,1133,1284],"class_list":["post-70903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-free-press","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-censorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-media","tag-propaganda","tag-time-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-irB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63246,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63246","url_meta":{"origin":70903,"position":0},"title":"Trump Threatens CBS Over Kamala Harris Interview on 60 Minutes He Says Was &#8216;Possibly Illegal&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/9\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has spent the past nine years castigating the media in the most vile terms. 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