Japan Attacks America, and the New York Times Shrugs
Why is mainstream media ignoring Trump's mental and physical illness?
While the New York Times was gleefully reporting on the Graham Platner debacle in the great state of Maine, our spineless leader was telling the world that the Islamic Republic of Japan had fired 111 missiles at an aircraft gallery.1
I contacted the Museum of Aviation’s Aircraft Exhibit Gallery at Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia to verify this frightening turn of events.
I’ll update this post when I hear back.
In the meantime, graphics mavens on Apartheid Twitter had a field day, nearly doubling local electricity prices with AI while creating a series of responses like this:
And this:
The New York Times continues, ten years into the insurrection known as Trumpism, to carefully massage its headlines and story priorities to avoid the most important news story of this century: The takeover of the United States by a Christo-nationalist insurrection led by a psychopath whose mind is dangerously eroded, and whose best friend for years was a convicted sex trafficker and child rapist.
Every day should be filled with articles about this crisis. Every other event that occurs on Planet Earth should be relegated to Page Two status. Related events that result from the madman’s actions, such as the attack on Iran, should be labeled as the insider trading war that it is. It’s part of his grift, and nothing more, although it has cost the non-Trump world plenty.
Other stories, like the extrajudicial murders of boaters in the Caribbean or the re-ignition of ICE’s war on American citizens,2 should fall under a new section of the newspaper called “Fascism Today.”
This is true for every news media organization, but it’s especially true for the New York Times, which tries to lay claim to the left side of the political divide.
Let’s look at what happened in Europe while the New York Times was focusing on what would ordinarily be a quiet shakeup in a Maine Senate seat that is probably not going to go the Republicans’ way no matter how the Times tries to wash it:
As I mentioned, he said that the “Islamic Republic of Japan” attacked (aircraft carriers?).
Once again, the mad clown had to be led around the rooms by European leaders gently pushing around a doddering, senile old man. There are videos and everything! It is embarrassing for a nation that calls itself the world’s superpower to watch foreign leaders lead our head of state along a kindergarten trail.
He attacked Spain as a “wasted cause” and threatened to “cut off all trade” from that nation for failing to meet his idea of NATO’s defense spending targets. You can be sure that when Spanish bonds and the pan-European Stoxx 600 tumbled as a result of his spluttering, the mad clown’s grifty minions started vacuuming money. The New York Times barely mentioned the event, and made no noise about the connection to markets.
He declared the U.S. ceasefire with Iran “over,” which immediately rocked equity markets worldwide and spiked global oil prices. You can be sure that his circle of grift cashed in on that, too. The Times mentioned market reaction, but buried it so much that nobody saw it but me and a few others who read past the first few paragraphs.
He fired up his “I want Greenland” obsession again. European leaders mostly ignored him this time when he called Denmark’s resistance “a big problem,” the same way we ignore old drunk guys digging through dumpsters and screaming about Armageddon.
The Europeans are now managing Trump like you’d manage anything else that is broken. They are withdrawing from every dependency on America they can. The Wall Street Journal, owned by one of Trump’s most important early enablers, Rupert Murdoch, has laid out the details. See the footnotes for more on this.3
When Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported to a roomful of NATO leaders that there were no refineries in Russia that hadn’t been damaged by Ukrainian drones, the grifter-in-chief, who never admits to backing the losing side, promised Zelenskyy they could clone American Patriot missile systems.
I’m not sure if the business with Zelenskyy happened before or after the walking brain stem referred to the Ukrainian president as “President Putin,” an event which, sadly, might explain why he made the Patriot missile promise. It’s very possible he thought he was talking to Putin.
When these kinds of things are covered by mainstream media, including the New York Times, they’re treated as if they’re part of any normal diplomatic routine among nation-states instead of under the shadow of a gravely ill sociopath.
Note: Read the footnotes for more on the rift Trump has caused with allies
Their excuse is that they can’t demonstrate Trump’s mental illness conclusively. This is no longer merely a lame excuse. It’s a lie. The evidence appears before us every day, usually multiple times. There can’t possibly be a New York Times newsroom editor who can tell you with a straight face that Trump is sane or mentally fit.
The coverage of every Biden gaffe was wall-to-wall. The coverage of a dying, demented president’s mental and physical health is nil, even though newsrooms like the New York Times understand the gravity of the situation more than almost anyone.
There are a few journalists at the Times who manage to do good work anyway. One day, if we survive all this, we’ll hear their stories about how they managed to get their stories out of the sanewashed edifice that is the New York Times.
Until then, we continue to be no our own.
Thanks for reading!
Footnotes
It is possible that he meant “aircraft carrier.”
McClenagan, Kyle. “Relatives of Houston Man Fatally Shot by ICE Agent Describe Him as ‘Hard-Working Family Man.’” Houston Public Media, July 8, 2026. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2026/07/08/556533/lorenzo-salgado-araujo-houston-ice-shooting-family-speaks-out/.
The WSJ ran a major two-part article on the end of the European/USA romance:
There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/european-rupture-with-america-e3a9bb3c
Some excerpts:
It was almost midnight in Brussels and the leaders of Europe were locked in their fifth hour of an emergency meeting with a single theme for discussion: how to manage a breakup with America.
The new year was only three weeks old and President Trump, after removing Venezuela’s autocratic strongman, had briefly threatened to seize Greenland from Denmark. Around a circular table in the European Council headquarters known as “The Space Egg,” heads of government were venting so emotionally about the 47th president that some of the nearly 30 leaders present would later call the session “therapy night.” There were no cameras or recordings and each of the presidents and prime ministers was told to come alone, no phones allowed, for a moment to speak candidly.
Part two of the story sets the stage for how Canada, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, is leading the effort to create organizations, trade groups, and military initiatives that will break free of the USA. It all started with one of Trump’s patented hate riffs directed at then Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, when Trump mentioned he’d tear up the 1908 treaty that established the Canadian-U.S. border:
“I tear that up and your whole country unravels,”
The mad clown has since, of course, made unhinged comments about Canada becoming the 51st state, even though that would mean it would become the U.S.’s largest blue state ever, and in a bigly way.
The WSJ story acknowledges the near impossibility of a full breakup with Europe and Canada, but it’s important to understand that it’s the complexities of the current relationship that prevent a full separation. If our allies’ moods were the only factor, the alliance would have already been broken.
The Europeans and Canadians will soldier on:
American allies have begun pushing the gas pedal on an unprecedented experiment in de-Americanization. Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office. Belatedly, they are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to try to boost Europe’s own private space firms, AI companies, and data centers, to avoid leaning on U.S. juggernauts.
The story is paywalled but freely available if you create a new account with the WSJ (and since it’s owned by Murdoch, I’d argue that I’ve given you all the info you really need).
My dad died from Alzheimer’s, and I recognize the symptoms in the felon. He wanders, he falls asleep when he’s sitting still, no matter what is happening around him. He speaks gibberish, he mixes up people’s names, I could go on.
The thing that really bothers me is that Jake Tapper and others accused Joe Biden of aging poorly, when it’s actually the felon with the dementia, and corporate media ignores it completely.