I kind of buried the lede. In journalism parlance, the “lede” (don’t ask me why it’s not spelled “lead” because I have no idea) is the headline or lead paragraph to a story.
In this case, the lede is that Time Magazine’s recent lengthy interview with the madman in chief was the most effective midterm election campaign material Democrats could ask for.
Unless, of course, he follows through on his promise to campaign for Republican congress critters, who have all adopted the same form of critterness (not a real word) through years of obsequiousness, sycophancy, servility, unctuousness, submissiveness, smarminess, compliance, deference, fawning, groveling, toadyism, bootlicking, brownnosing, subservience, oiliness, self-abasement, sliminess, baseness, cravenness, ass-kissing, and extended, historic arse-licking.1
CongressCritter Cam
Here’s a rare live look from CongressCritter Cam of Republicans gathering for a campaign strategy meeting:
I should qualify this proclamation by saying that his campaign appearances would be a gift to Democrats, if Americans weren’t constantly in a state of unawareness that will be studied by sociologists for the next hundred years.
See, here’s the thing. You can’t read through the transcript of his Time interview and not come to the conclusion that his mind is completely gone.
Note: It’s safer from a mental health standpoint to read the transcript than to watch a video of him speaking. Don’t do that. Avoid such video the same way you’d avoid a serial killer approaching you with a 36-inch chef’s knife.
I don’t mean “he’s crazy” in a hyperbolic, oh, there goes another anti-trumper attack dude overplaying a few speech defects kind of way. I mean it in a clinical sense. I mean it in a way that will make you ask again why Reagan cleared out all the mental institutions back in the 80s.
I mean it in this sense, for those of you who remember old movies about crazy people:
As proof, I will reproduce the first few paragraphs of the interview. The entirety of the interview is the same. The incoherence, the inability to maintain a shred of cohesive thought, is so obvious that not noticing is denial, not a failure in observation.
Consider this passage (read all of it, I dare you!!), the very beginning of the interview, the very first words coming out of his foaming, rabies-filled mouth, where Time asks about his meeting with Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei:
TIME: I’m curious about your dinner last night with Dario.
Trump: Oh.
Yes, exactly. Do you still disagree with his views on what he calls AI safety?
I spoke to him about his views, and they’re much different, I think, than what is portrayed in the media. First of all, I liked him and his wife a lot. They had dinner, and we were going to meet at 7:00. But I was at the big Presidents Cup. I was the chairman of it in Chicago at Marion, which is great. Actually, that was yeah, Medinah, at Medinah, last year, Marion, this time of year, it was really great, and so I called, I said, “Could we make it a little bit later?” He actually saw the helicopter land, so we made it a little bit later. We got in at about 10. We stayed for more than two hours, talked about a lot of things. Very smart guy. Maybe different than I thought, a little bit. Really a little bit different. But no, he understands.
Look, I say, if you’re going to seek regulation, they can put you out of business. Now you do have to be responsible for yourself, and there aren’t a lot of people that understand what’s going on. This is a new one that is much different than people have ever seen before. But my attitude is, we’re winning against the world by a lot, and I want to keep winning. There are those that say it’s bigger than the industrial revolution, and you would think not. But actually, if you look at the numbers—you ever see these numbers? They’re like, they’re like straight up in the air. And from our standpoint, we have trillions of dollars being invested in our country because it’s probably the biggest business there is. We’re the most advanced, we have the, we have the smartest people. And tomorrow I have a big meeting. We have everybody. All the—Dario’s coming back.
I’m curious what exactly is going on with all these meetings with these AI leaders.
Well, look, you know, this isn’t like I’m building a building, which I can do out of my back pocket. It’s easier to do that for me, and it’s what I’ve been doing. This is a whole new world, probably mostly good, but some bad too. And it’s a very powerful world. It’s a very—potentially really could be good for medical. I mean, some of the things they’re coming up with now that they never even thought about. But with good comes bad, and we want them, we want all of them to behave for themselves. Tomorrow’s meeting. What time is that meeting tomorrow? Two?
Natalie Harp: Noon, in the East Room.
Trump: So we have everybody. Give me a list of the people at the meeting.
Can I ask, Mr. President?
We had a good evening the other night, three nights ago, or two nights ago.
Given the news this week, I have to ask: Why should Americans believe that you respect the free press when you’re restricting access of some of our colleagues to the White House?
No, but say it a little louder.
Why should Americans believe that you respect the free press when you’re restricting access to the White House to some of our colleagues?
Because I do respect the free press, but I don’t respect fake news. I’ll give you an example. CNN and MSDNC, which is MS Now—they changed the name because it does so poorly. But I won the election. I won it handily by massive numbers. I won the popular vote. I won all seven swing states. They said if you won three swing states, I won all seven. I won the counties. It’s very important, 86% popular vote. Everything, and very conclusively, I haven’t had a good story on CNN for years. They’re incapable of being—they’re fake news. Same thing on MS NOW.
If I do the finest thing, if I found the cure to cancer, they would say, “Why didn’t he move quicker?” They are just horrible people, and they’re so bad. So I believe in a free press. I believe in an honest press, but I don’t believe in fake news. And I know it’s fake because I know the thing—I don’t mind, you know, if I do something wrong, I don’t mind having a bad story. He’s written a couple of times about something. I said, well listen, he’s not wrong. But with the press, if somebody’s going to call me, if every single story is—look, I’ve done a lot of good stuff. I’m in the Oval Office. I mean, the public is very smart. If I wasn’t doing a good job, I wouldn’t have won that election by a lot.
Are you going to ignore the courts when they say this this denial is—
Well, the court actually said that, if you look at the judge’s decision, he’s been a very anti-Trump judge, which is very interesting. But if you look at his decision, he really said process. He talked about—come back to us with process.
He’s a Trump-appointed judge. He was appointed by you.
Yeah, he was. He was. It’s one of those things.
The entire interview is like this. On and on it goes. You can tell by reading it that the intrepid Time reporter asking the questions is like someone trying to get a chimpanzee to count to a hundred, knowing perfectly well it will never happen, but soldiering on anyway because that’s the job.
His communications director, Steven Cheung, who is possibly even more insane than the predator-in-chief, was there to try to steer him around Time’s questions that a five-year-old would have done a better job articulating answers to.
His new trad wife, Natalie Harp, was there, too, serving as sort of a filler for his vast memory hole.
Neither of these two characters from an absurdist novel helped him much. He yammered senselessly during the entire interview.
Afterwards, the bewilderingly sycophantic mainstream media snatched a few paragraphs out of the rambling display of paranoia and ignorance, and tried to make headlines out of the nonsense.
You can read the whole interview from the link below. I don’t advise it, but if you feel mentally tough today, I guess maybe have a go at it:
https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/
Meanwhile, the mad king is like Christa Pike (who would be a much better president). Nothing kills the dude. He’s like a cockroach. He’s on his back, his little cankled legs flailing about like the insect he is, but he keeps yammering away, thinking we want more of what he has, while toxins that should kill him flow through his puffed up, orange corpse of a body.
Unless his minions have devised a plan to steal the midterms, his last days as a cockroach on its back spluttering out the same words every half hour or so will cost them both houses of Congress.
If they know something we don’t, and have a plan to steal the elections (very, very difficult to accomplish given the decentralized nature of the U.S. electoral process), the streets will fill up the next day, and they’ll lose a lot more than an election.
Because if that happens, even this aging, semi-functional stroke survivor will be out with the rest of you, armed with a torch, a crutch with a bayonet, and whatever else it takes to inform them of their grievous error.
Notes
The mad king has a $400 million political war chest to work with. You will see billions of negative ads in the next few weeks. Fight back by dragging one person you know to an election booth with you.
VOTE.
I’ve talked frequently about his clinical insanity. For example:
No, the Iran War Is Not About Trump Incompetence
The man whose brain is wired by twigs and old Epstein footage of underage girls is clinically insane. Everyone who writes about Trump and doesn’t begin their “analysis” of what he does without saying that first is just wasting your reading time.
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Footnotes
Special thanks to WordHippo Thesaurus (original word: obsequiousness).
Not up for the whole interview. The taste of it in your article was more than enough for me. Thanks for that.