Why Isn't The Media Covering Trump's Mental Decline?

The media has recently been full of stories about President Biden's mental decline. But it seems to be ignoring the rather obvious mental decline of the current occupant of the White House. Why?

The following is part of a post by Michael A. Cohen at MSNBC:

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump told a story that, even for the least honest president in American history, was notable.

During an energy and technology summit in Pittsburgh, Trump claimed that his uncle John Trump, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. “My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors,” Trump said. “Fifty-one years, whatever. Longest-serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear, chemical and math. That’s a smart man.”. . .

According to the president, he once had a conversation with John Trump about Kaczynski: “What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?’ Dr. John Trump,” Trump asked. “He said, ‘What kind of a student? ‘Man,’ he said, ‘seriously good. ... He’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

This is an interesting story, but what is most notable about the president’s digression is that none of it was true.

First, Kaczynski attended Harvard, not MIT, so it would be unusual, though not impossible, that this uncle would come in contact with the future Unabomber. (Students at both schools do cross-enroll on occasion, though NBC News reported the courses Kaczynski took were taught at Harvard, not MIT.)

Second, John Trump passed away in 1985. Kaczynski committed bombings that killed three people and wounded nearly two dozen others from 1978 to 1995. He was finally arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison in 1998. If both the president and his uncle knew that Kaczynski was the Unabomber more than a decade before his arrest ... now that would be a story! . . .

Trump’s Unabomber tale is yet another example of the president’s increasing disconnect from reality. Yet, as with so many of Trump’s recent and unsettling statements, the mainstream media seems uninterested in covering the story. Trump’s Unabomber story has received scant coverage, despite reflecting a repeated pattern of confused and exaggerated statements.

For example, the day after his bizarre digression in Pittsburgh, Trump complained once again about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and publicly stated, “I was surprised he was appointed.”

The person who appointed Powell was Donald Trump in 2017.

On Monday, at a White House Faith Office summit, he called Powell “a knucklehead” and a “stupid guy,” derided the intelligence of other politicians, including his former energy secretary Rick Perry, and said former President Joe Biden “wasn’t faithful enough and sought to persecute religious leaders.”

At the same gathering, Trump asserted that gas prices have “gone to the lowest level in decades. You’re seeing $1.99, $1.98, I saw $1.95 at certain states.”

Trump has made this claim repeatedly — two weeks ago and several times in April. In fact, the average national gas price has never fallen below $3 a gallon since Trump took office in January, and it is currently around $3.16.

Trump also appears to have very little idea of what’s happening in his own administration.

In the run-up to passage of his massive tax and spending bill, he repeatedly claimed that it would eliminate taxes on Social Security — a claim that massively exaggerates the impact of the bill. Of even greater concern is a story that received almost no attention. NOTUS reported that, only days before the legislation was signed into law, Trump told House Republicansthat if the party wants to win elections, it shouldn’t cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. According to three sources, one GOP member had to tell Trump, “But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill.”

Additionally, Trump appeared to be unaware that his administration had paused military aid shipments to Ukraine, even going so far as to ask a reporter whether she knew who had ordered the halt.

One might conclude from this compendium of stories that America is in the midst of a governing crisis. The president of the United States is making up stories, repeatedly making false claims and attacking other public officials.

Yet there’s been little reporting connecting these incidents. . . .

The president of the United States is showing substantial, arguably greater public evidence of possible cognitive decline. Trump at times is unaware of what is happening inside his administration, can seem clueless about major policy events, and doesn’t always appear to understand the very legislation that he is promoting.

One can certainly debate the extent to which Biden was truly experiencing cognitive decline. But if reporters are going to argue that the media dropped the ball in not giving that story greater coverage, then how does one explain not even talking about what is happening right now?