Consumer sentiment sinks to a record low of 50.4. Worse than the Great Recession and stagflation era. Americans are feeling the economic squeeze like never before. ⚠️🏠🛒 x.com/kobeissilett...

JD Vance condemns racist attacks on his wife but sidesteps directly calling out extremists like Nick Fuentes. Choosing political convenience over principle isn’t strategy—it’s cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Turning Point USA throws its weight behind JD Vance for 2028 — without consulting the volunteers who power the group. The organizational backing appears top-down, led by Erika Kirk and senior TPUSA figures, rather than arising from a grassroots or member-driven vote. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Ellison met with CBS News leaders in the middle of a 60 Minutes controversy Trump has publicly ranted about. Sources say the meeting skirted tough questions and focused on smooth relations — a reminder that newsroom independence can get tangled when owners are deep in political crosscurrents. 🧠📺 🔍

CBS pulled a 60 Minutes story exposing Trump-era deportations to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison, where hundreds of Venezuelans were sent. When journalism bends to political pressure, the cost isn’t comfort—it’s accountability. 📰⚡ www.showbiz411.com/2025/12/21/c...

Reading the list of Trump’s 2025 scandals, the throughline is unmistakable: corruption normalized, cruelty bureaucratized, accountability mocked. At some point, calling this “scandal” understates the problem. It’s governance by erosion. 🧨📜 newrepublic.com/post/204659/...

Detrumpification isn’t about revenge or nostalgia. It’s about scrubbing the state of a brand that confused governance with self-promotion and grievance. Removing the names, the theatrics, the loyalty tests. Restoring expertise and boring competence. That this feels radical says everything. 🧽🏛️

Trump reportedly took cost-benefit analysis—once conservatism’s evidence-based brake on government power—and hollowed it out. When outcomes are pre-decided, analysis becomes a prop. This isn’t regulatory reform; it’s deregulation by vibes. 🎭📉 newrepublic.com/article/2046...

Watching a once-prime-time commentator get “Antisemite of the Year” for platforming racist extremists is less a shock and more a symptom: in the attention economy, amplification is endorsement. That it’s news at all says a lot about how we got here. 🧨⚠️ www.mediaite.com/media/tucker...

Trump’s “warrior dividend” sounds heroic—until you realize it’s paid for by gutting Veterans Affairs budgets. Promises of supporting troops? More like accounting tricks while real veterans suffer. 💸🇺🇸 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

America isn’t just divided politically—it’s losing its moral compass. We need a shared moral reawakening: compassion over cruelty, dignity over division, humanity over power. Without it, life in America will only grow darker. 🌍🕊️ www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-...

2️⃣ FTD can cause impulsivity, grandiosity, disinhibition, and confabulation. Sound familiar? These are patterns Trump repeatedly shows — believing his own exaggerations, acting recklessly, ignoring consequences.

1️⃣ Watching Trump, some clinicians are asking: Could his behavior be linked to FTD — Frontotemporal Dementia? 🧠⚠️ This isn’t memory loss — it’s personality, judgment, and impulse control. frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its...

3️⃣ For a president, impaired judgment is more destabilizing than impaired recall. Trump’s pattern suggests someone who can remember facts—but can’t reliably assess reality, consequences, or restraint. That’s a governance risk, not a gaffe. 🚨

2️⃣ This matters because Trump’s most alarming moments aren’t forgotten names or dates—they’re reckless speeches, fabricated claims delivered with certainty, manic pacing, and hostility toward constraint. That’s not cognitive decline. That’s loss of behavioral control. 📉🎭

That FBI/panties anecdote isn’t just “Trump being Trump.” It shows disinhibition, impulsivity, grandiosity, and failing judgment—a pattern that’s concerning and inconsistent with stable leadership. 🧠⚠️ He has dementia. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-com...

The “vibe shift” isn’t economic — it’s emotional. Trump keeps declaring victory while people are doing math at the grocery store. When a president insists things are great and voters feel poorer every week, it doesn’t inspire confidence. It breeds resentment. 📉🧾 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

Trump’s tell is numbers that sound precise and mean nothing. “92%” shows up whenever reality doesn’t cooperate. When the stats are that specific and that wrong, it’s not data—it’s improv. 📊🎭 www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The rollout is controversial & key materials — including images connected to Trump — have unexpectedly disappeared from the public archive. The politics & legal debates over this process are intensifying as more documents are expected in the coming weeks. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

As a clinician, it is continually astounding to me that nothing happens here. If this was anyone else, there would already be an effort to evaluate. If this was your grandfather, you'd be looking at care homes. If this was your boss, you'd be calling HR. It just blows my mind.

That FBI/panties anecdote isn’t just “Trump being Trump.” It shows disinhibition, impulsivity, grandiosity, and failing judgment—a pattern that’s concerning and inconsistent with stable leadership. 🧠⚠️ He has dementia. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-com...

RFK Jr. 2025 in review: CDC advisory boards purged ✅ Morale & expertise decimated ✅ Vaccine policy gutted ✅ Measles & preventable diseases surge ✅ Anti-science claims amplified ✅ Public health infrastructure weakened ✅ This isn’t “reform,” it’s sabotage. 🦠⚠️ gizmodo.com/the-worst-wa...

4️⃣ This pattern of behavior sounds like Trump: impulsivity, disinhibition, grandiosity, confabulation. It harms judgment, not memory—classic distinction between behavioral deterioration and cognitive decline. 🧠⚠️ Media, take note: see George’s Substack.

3️⃣ For a president, impaired judgment is more destabilizing than impaired recall. Trump’s pattern suggests someone who can remember facts—but can’t reliably assess reality, consequences, or restraint. That’s a governance risk, not a gaffe. 🚨

2️⃣ This matters because Trump’s most alarming moments aren’t forgotten names or dates—they’re reckless speeches, fabricated claims delivered with certainty, manic pacing, and hostility toward constraint. That’s not cognitive decline. That’s loss of behavioral control. 📉🎭

Frank George isn’t saying Donald Trump has Alzheimer’s or ordinary age-related decline. He’s pointing to something more dangerous: a pattern of behavioral deterioration—impulsivity, disinhibition, grandiosity, and reality-confabulation that impairs judgment, not memory. 🧠⚠️

The Epstein files are spilling, exposing a web of powerful names. Horrific for the victims, shocking for the public, and a reminder: association with Epstein isn’t innocence—but the scale of this network is grotesque. 💔🕸️ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

📌 If enacted, these MOUs would represent a major expansion of federal involvement in election administration, potentially giving the DOJ an active role in determining eligibility and maintaining voter lists — raising serious questions about voter privacy and state sovereignty

Trump’s ‘ballroom’ contractors aren’t your usual event-builders—they’re specialists in secure facilities, hardened structures, and sensitive installations. So the question is obvious: is this really a fancy ballroom… or something else entirely? 🏗️🤔 thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt...

Instead of encouraging breakthroughs — the engine of new cures and long-term growth — current policy risks discouraging investment and draining scientific talent, which could weaken the industry’s ability to tackle future health challenges. The Trump Effect. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/p...

There is a presidency at work in Washington, but it is not clear that there is a president at work in the Oval Office. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

Everything is for sale—including the health of the American people. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/f...

Americans recoil, and he doubles down. Trump’s Hunger Games theatrics aren’t policy—they’re a performance that feeds him. 🎇📺 www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-hung...

🌍 Foreign money is pouring into Trump‑linked crypto ventures. With his sons and allies running the show, the lines between family profit and the presidency are gone — conflicts of interest aren’t just possible, they’re baked in.

💰 This isn’t just hotels and golf courses. New ventures like World Liberty Financial’s crypto ecosystem and Trump Media’s evolving portfolio have generated billions in proceeds and paper wealth tied to the presidency itself — an unprecedented blend of political power and personal profit.

📌 Top military lawyer advised Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine that if a commander believes an order is unlawful, the safest course isn’t to publicly protest or resign—it’s to request retirement rather than risk a political confrontation. www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...

Even some Republicans are calling his behavior ‘unhinged’ and worrying he’s ‘lost it.’ Media coverage isn’t just snark — it’s highlighting a real contrast between televised spectacle and the serious consequences of that tone from the White House. 📺⚠️ #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Affordability alone isn’t enough. Democrats need real answers to the cost‑of‑living squeeze — not just warning labels on the GOP’s failures. Solutions > soundbites. charmedslot.it.com/avs/en/dt/mc...

As a Fox News poll delivers ugly numbers, Karoline Leavitt soothes Trump with endless flattery — the classic compensation loop for a leader in decline: the weaker he gets, the louder his minions praise. Obedience becomes cover, not competence. 📉🎭 charmedslot.it.com/avs/en/dt/mc...

Wall Street’s looking cheerful on softer inflation, but let’s not pretend the year‑end rally means smooth sailing. Rate cuts, AI hype, and holiday volatility make 2026 a mix of optimism… and “hold onto your hats.” 📈💥 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...

Even Mitt Romney now wants the rich taxed more. That’s a seismic shift in GOP economics — and a sign of how desperate solutions have become. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

The WSJ editorial page is fine with the U.S. sanctioning international judges. Apparently the rule of law is sacred — unless it applies to us or our friends. ⚖️🙃 Funny how fast “authoritarian behavior” becomes “sovereignty” when it’s convenient. www.wsj.com/opinion/inte...

Whether Wiles should have opened up so freely on record reflects broader questions about professionalism, messaging discipline, and how internal dynamics are spilling into public view. www.wsj.com/opinion/what...

Groceries, rent, insurance all up — real wages barely moving. Even the Wall Street Journal can’t pretend people are better off. When your best defense is “technically inflation slowed,” you’ve already lost the argument. 🧾📉 www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t

The danger isn’t Trump’s rudeness—we’ve priced that in. It’s the unraveling. Public cruelty, paranoid fantasy, grandiosity without brakes. A president who can’t summon basic human decency, yet holds unilateral nuclear authority. We’ve normalized behavior that should stop us cold. 🚨

Even his allies are wincing now. The shouting, the insults, the weirdly personal attacks — it’s not dominance, it’s unraveling. Power doesn’t need to scream. 😬📉 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Trump’s tantrums are doing the unexpected: Americans are flocking back to free trade, immigration, and alliances. Nothing like authoritarian overreach to make ‘liberalism’ look good again. 🇺🇸 www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Speaker Johnson is flailing. GOP factions clash over healthcare and spending, members openly defy him, and leadership looks more reactive than in control. newrepublic.com/article/2045...

Trump talks loudly about regaining oil rights or American energy dominance, but the complex global oil market and legal constraints mean such goals are more symbolic than achievable. newrepublic.com/post/204578/...