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The Times - Finally - Hints that Trump is Nuts [1]

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Date: 2026-04-13  

Well, it only took them forever. Peter Baker, the NYT White House correspondent, has a front-page article up this morning: Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

President Trump’s erratic behavior and extreme comments in recent days and weeks have turbocharged the crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy debate that has followed him on the national political stage for a decade.

Now, only his followers and those afraid of him are still peddling the “crazy like a fox” line. Even some Republicans are going with “just plain crazy” — which may be what moved the Times off the fence (to the extent that they have).

Democrats who have long challenged Mr. Trump’s psychological fitness have issued a fresh chorus of calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from power for disability. But it is not just a concern voiced by partisans on the left, late-night comics or mental health professionals making long-distance diagnoses. It can be heard now among retired generals, diplomats and foreign officials. And most strikingly, it can be heard now on the political right among onetime allies of the president. . . . Some of the questions about Mr. Trump’s soundness come from people who once worked with him and have since become critics. Even before the civilization post, Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer in Mr. Trump’s first term, told the journalist Jim Acosta that the president is “a man who is clearly insane” and that his recent string of belligerent, middle-of-the-night social media posts “highlights the level of his insanity.” Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary for Mr. Trump, wrote online last week that “he’s clearly not well.”

After citing other presidents from Jackson through Lincoln to Nixon whose sanity has been questioned, Baker does go on to list some of Trump’s recent acts which even he has to admit are weird:

In his second term, Mr. Trump seems even less restrained and more incoherent at times. He uses more profanity, speaks longer and regularly makes comments rooted in fantasy rather than fact. . . . He wanders off into odd tangents . . . Even before lashing out at Pope Leo XIV on Sunday night, and then posting an image of himself as a Jesus-like figure before deleting it, Mr. Trump had shocked many with his outbursts at critics.

Baker quotes a White House spokesman accusing the Times letting Biden off the hook and then says that’s not true; “(The Times covered Mr. Biden’s health and age extensively in multiple stories.)” What Baker leaves out is the way the Times dodged and weaved and ducked and did all it could to avoid saying anything about Trump’s health until it became too obvious and too terrifying to cover up any longer.

Even now, Baker won’t allow himself to conclude that Trump is bonkers, nuts, needs to be removed for the sake of the country. Even Trump’s “out of control” behavior has a positive side. Baker concludes:

But there may be political latitude for it with his base. “There is an element of American politics in the age of polarization, particularly within the G.O.P., that likes this style of leadership,” Mr. Zelizer said. “What can be more anti-establishment than someone who is willing to be out of control?”

Sigh for the beloved country.

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