The clearest symptom
yet of Trump’s mental decline
His brain is turning into sh*t
Dec 04, 2025
Friends,
After criticizing media coverage about him aging in office, Trump appeared to be falling
asleep during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
But that’s hardly the most troubling aspect of his aging.
In the last few weeks, Trump’s insults, tantrums, and
threats have exploded.
To Nancy Cordes, CBS’s White House correspondent, he said:
“Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You’re just asking questions because
you’re a stupid person.”
About New York Times correspondent Katie
Rogers: “third rate … ugly, both inside and out.”
To Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey:
“Quiet. Quiet, piggy.”
About Democratic lawmakers who told military members to
defy illegal orders: guilty of “sedition … punishable by DEATH.”
About Somali immigrants to the United States: “Garbage” whom “we don’t want in our country.”
What to make of all this?
Trump’s press hack Karoline Leavitt tells reporters to
“appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on
a near-daily basis.”
Sorry, Ms. Leavitt. This goes way beyond
frankness and openness. Trump is now saying things nobody in their right mind
would say, let alone the president of the United States.
He’s losing control over what he says, descending into
angry, venomous, often dangerous territory. Note how close his language is
coming to violence — when he speaks of acts being punishable by death, or human
beings as garbage, or someone being ugly inside and out.
The deterioration isn’t due to age alone.
I have some standing to talk about this frankly. I was born
10 days after Trump. My gray matter isn’t what it used to be, either, but I
don’t say whatever comes into my head.
It’s true that when you’re pushing 80, brain inhibitors
start shutting down. You begin to let go. Even in my daily Substack letter to
you, I’ve found myself using language that I’d never use when I was younger,
like the word “sh*t” in this subtitle.
When my father got into his 90s, he told his friends at
their weekly restaurant lunch that it was about time they paid their fair
shares of the bill. He told his pharmacist that he was dangerously incompetent
and should be fired. He told me I needed to dress better and get a haircut.
He lost some of his inhibitions, but at least his
observations were accurate.
I think older people lose certain inhibitions because they
don’t care as much about their reputations as do younger people. In a way,
that’s rational. Older people no longer depend on their reputations for the
next job or next date or new friend. If a young person says whatever comes into
their heads, they have much more to lose, reputation-wise.
But Trump’s outbursts signal something more than the normal
declining inhibitions that come with older age. Trump no longer has any
filters. He’s becoming impetuous.
This would be worrying about anyone who’s aging. But a
filterless president of the United States who says anything that comes into his
head poses a unique danger. What if he gets angry at China, calls up Xi, tells
him he’s an asshole, and then orders up a nuclear bomb?
It’s time the media reported on this. It’s time America
faced reality. It’s time we demanded that our representatives in Congress take
action, before it’s too late.
Invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
