At 9:54 this morning, the President of the United States finally emerged from his self-imposed "safety-related" isolation inside the White House to spend his Saturday at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C. But instead of simply playing golf, Donald Trump spent the afternoon unraveling on Truth Social. Over the course of five increasingly erratic posts, he lashed out at journalists, declared that he had just passed another cognitive screening exam he supposedly takes "every six months," despite his last one being just over 6 weeks ago on May 26. He attacked the "Dumocrats" as communists, called one of the nation's most respected journalists "one of the most unattractive people in the News 'Business,'" and, in perhaps the most surreal moment of all, wrote an imaginary speech about himself that ended with: "TRUMP IS THE BEST POLITICAL ATHLETE OF ALL TIME! CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE BEATEN US FOR 10 YEARS, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO WASTE OUR TIME FIGHTING YOU ANY LONGER. WE CAN'T WIN. DO A GREAT JOB, SIR, RUNNING OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Thank you. If any confirmation… keep me (US all!) in the loop. Btw is there any law that forbid the non disclosure of a dead person? It must be a serious offense I guess. And it could be easy to proof that the corpse was damn cold / half rotten for a few weeks. Should we already book some NCIS?
Now I was just reading that Malcolm Nance believes he IS dead and I tend to trust his intelligence sources. Also, I read his neighbors said the ambulance didn't have sirens on when it left the house. Which is not a good sign. If you hear anything, let me know too.
Every day I am thankful for people like you that are bravely sharing the truth. That refuse to be silenced. Refuse to give up hope. Refuse to stop fighting. I am thankful for the people looking for the truth and supporting those telling it. I am thankful for the people already building a new path forward while the brokenness becomes visible. We did not get here overnight, not even ten years ago. Maybe at some point we just stopped building our country to reach the promise laid before us all those years ago. It will take time and courage to collectively get back on the path to realize the vision for what we can be. Must be. Will be. But we do it by individually deciding to walk the better path. To do the good work. To make good trouble. Thank you for what you do everyday. Onward.
Well I’m just hoping the Mossad is right and the Iranians have a big ol’ target painted on Donald J Trashdump’s fat ass, because I for one am dog-tired of seeing him trash everyone and his mother who doesn’t buy his bullshit about winning three elections and being the toast of the world. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan are right on with their book and there’s a reason bookstores can’t keep em in stock. It’s because Trashdump is full of shit and the more people want to know about the more he steams up his goddamn diapers and burns up his ridiculous “Truth” national socialist network. Well, let him burn. 🔥
I agree. I don’t want him killed, I want him prosecuted for all of his crimes. Treason is the biggest one: fomenting an insurrection at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
Many thanks Heather, for yet another detailed and insightful post. I had never heard of Maggie Haberman, the NY Times journalist, but I'm willing to bet that Trump has never read her book, let alone any book. I doubt very much he'll be in a fit state to sue either the NY Times and the BBC for millions of dollars. The orange Hitler just makes stuff up as he goes along and yet the MAGA people can't see how delusional he is.
I see so many doom and gloom, abandon hope, posts these days. People positive he's going to cancel the midterms, or he won't cancel them, but he'll have ICE goons at polling places watching how we vote. He's fortifying the White House because he'll refuse to give up power.
I try to answer those posts with lots of reasons why our worst imaginings almost never come true, and how he's tried to cheat before but never succeeds. Then I read the day's news and think I'm being way too optimistic! But despair will defeat us as surely as Trump would
would.
I think of JFK's quote often: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." But I'm old and can't walk without a cane or a walker. I won't be of any use if it comes to manning the barricades or storming the White House. It's terrifying to think that he and his evil cohorts (and they *are* evil) will win, and this dystopia will get worse and go on and on.
I'm sure it's wrong to wish harm on another. But surely not just this country, but thw whole world would be better off if he just passed peacefully in his sleep. Soon.
Oh my goodness! Seventy years old here and I feel the EXACT SAME WAY! What an insightful quote from JFK. I fear we are certainly headed that way. However, if that's what it is going to take to protect our democracy for us and future generations, we MUST act. If we do not, we are complicit as well.
Once again, Heather Delaney Reese connects the dots in ways that others are not doing. She has a fairly comprehensive listing of arrests of and interference with US reporters and media organizations, and puts them in the context of the failing and desperate administration that cannot tolerate criticism, that has screwed up badly on issue after issue, and that seems to exist only to preserve the wealth, power, and especially ego of one fragile, sick would-be king who has not only zero understanding of the world he meddles in, but zero empathy for any other human beings outside his inner circle, even including the billionaires and unqualified administrators who have kept him in power.
As an historian I'm interested in the objective evidence that is building, recording Trump's objective deterioration. Heather's daily chronicling of his physical and mental trajectory is one set, recorded from a single consistent source. The five periodic Walter Reed Montreal Cognitive Assessments are another independent record—what are their dates before the last two, May 26 and now? Can anyone think of any other sets of evidence?
His entire Truth Social posting from Day One. He is seen as deteriorating and showing all signs of dementia with his hateful ranting and outright prevarications. Photographs of his physical deterioration like his hands and cankles. Visual evidence of his inability to walk straight. When he is dead and gone, many people trying to regain standing in their country will tell us all sorts of things: nasty smells and body sounds, bandages and ointments left behind, all the hidden things that the staff upstairs sees and the secret service sees, and anyone with eyes sees. Walter Reed doctors going on record with his mental and physical decline. It will all be revealed and we will learn, maybe, not to let this happen again. Hello 25th Amendment?
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
JD has to be the one to initiate it. Then he has to bring the Cabinet on board, then a 2/3 vote approval by Congress. Do you really think that's ever going to happen?
By complete coincidence I am currently re-reading Robert Harris’s “Fatherland “ in parallel with Heather’s posts.
For those who don’t know it the story is set in Germany in the mid 1960s in a world where the Nazis won the war. Churchill is in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the USA and Britain is ruled by a puppet prime minister under King Edward and Queen Wallis. Large swathes of Russia have been absorbed into Germany while the Soviet government fights on from Siberia
In Germany Heydrich has replaced Hitler, elections have been abolished and the country is run by an uneasy partnership of the SS, the SA and the Gestapo. Corruption and profiteering are rife.
The concentration camps have been expanded to accommodate “enemies of the state”
As a picture of the endgame of a country’s collapse into dictatorship the parallels are chilling
Worth a read or alternatively there was a movie made of it a while ago
If that interests you, and history and activism, I highly recommend the other Heather(I’m sure you already read), HCR, and definitely Lance Rosen. He is a longtime activist involved in Civil Rights, he and his wife. He integrates his experiences into his writings…especially Hitler, Nazi Germany and our current situation parallels and moving forward.
I’m a supporter and nothing to gain except adding to discussions of like-minded people on the right side of history.
There are more discussion and he engages on Facebook(more so) and Also on Substack.
The amount and construction of Trump’s posts point to the fact that they are not composed and posted in real time. Someone is writing them for him, before they’re needed by him, and as part of the regime’s communication strategy. Trump’s mental health is incapable of doing anything with clarity. Even if his clarity is foggy, confused, and delusional.
Thank you to your commitment to tell the truth amidst all of the horrors that we are seeing under this corrupt and cruel president and administration! I am a Canadian and, like most of us, are hoping to see accountability and better days soon ahead. From across the border it is exhausting seeing daily news of such a deliberate yet incompetent president. However, I am pleased to be a subscriber and read your daily columns. Keep up the good work and don't give up! That goes for all journalists, writers and others not afraid to continue to tell the truth.
Thank you Heather. It’s apparent that the Tangerine-waddle is becoming cornered and there are probably moments of clarity that he gets it.. it’s also the primal fear that lashes out and now there are no longer ones in the room to tell him No.. The mind, it’s a terrible thing when going to waste, especially the President’s…would be nice if there was a way to remove someone from that office when their capabilities and mind have purely turned to mush, porridge and oatmeal but alas no one will use that amendment because of their own interests.. those interests will always outweigh those of the People..
Stay safe and healthy.. Today is a good day. I don’t ever wish ill will towards people but there are moments that tell you from the Universe that there is coming a correction of sorts.. Sometimes it’s just good to recognize them.. Possibly someone is using that Princess Bubble Wand lighting the way or leaving a trail of those “tiny bubbles” for Mitch who knows but that wand is not going to do him any good where he is going…Maybe we should ask Peter Jennings who he has recently called and talked with for 20 minutes…
Gutter tactics and gutter speech don’t become a president. But then, he is really only an overblown, habitually cheating, real estate agent. Isn’t he?
Trump is an unhinged, narcissistic sociopath and he must be taken down like Mussolini was!!
Taken down? Really Susan, surely "strung-up" first! Only then, after a spell, taken-down.
May his next trip to Walter Reed be one way.
Amen!! May he soon join McConnell and Graham!! Keep the Faith Heather. ❤️🇺🇲💙🙏
So … now… you know that mitch the bitch is fucking dead?!?! Proof please. Thank you
I dont have proof yet Jack. Just a bunch. And lots of hope. 🤞🏼🙏
Thank you. If any confirmation… keep me (US all!) in the loop. Btw is there any law that forbid the non disclosure of a dead person? It must be a serious offense I guess. And it could be easy to proof that the corpse was damn cold / half rotten for a few weeks. Should we already book some NCIS?
Now I was just reading that Malcolm Nance believes he IS dead and I tend to trust his intelligence sources. Also, I read his neighbors said the ambulance didn't have sirens on when it left the house. Which is not a good sign. If you hear anything, let me know too.
*hunch
There's a reason the First Amendment is first.
👍🙏
Every day I am thankful for people like you that are bravely sharing the truth. That refuse to be silenced. Refuse to give up hope. Refuse to stop fighting. I am thankful for the people looking for the truth and supporting those telling it. I am thankful for the people already building a new path forward while the brokenness becomes visible. We did not get here overnight, not even ten years ago. Maybe at some point we just stopped building our country to reach the promise laid before us all those years ago. It will take time and courage to collectively get back on the path to realize the vision for what we can be. Must be. Will be. But we do it by individually deciding to walk the better path. To do the good work. To make good trouble. Thank you for what you do everyday. Onward.
So much love and support for you Heather. I appreciate your courage and integrity in bringing all this to awareness.
Well I’m just hoping the Mossad is right and the Iranians have a big ol’ target painted on Donald J Trashdump’s fat ass, because I for one am dog-tired of seeing him trash everyone and his mother who doesn’t buy his bullshit about winning three elections and being the toast of the world. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan are right on with their book and there’s a reason bookstores can’t keep em in stock. It’s because Trashdump is full of shit and the more people want to know about the more he steams up his goddamn diapers and burns up his ridiculous “Truth” national socialist network. Well, let him burn. 🔥
Hope he keels over before assassinated because we don't want MAGA to make him a martyr. I swear that man will haunt us from the grave
I agree. I don’t want him killed, I want him prosecuted for all of his crimes. Treason is the biggest one: fomenting an insurrection at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
Many thanks Heather, for yet another detailed and insightful post. I had never heard of Maggie Haberman, the NY Times journalist, but I'm willing to bet that Trump has never read her book, let alone any book. I doubt very much he'll be in a fit state to sue either the NY Times and the BBC for millions of dollars. The orange Hitler just makes stuff up as he goes along and yet the MAGA people can't see how delusional he is.
I see so many doom and gloom, abandon hope, posts these days. People positive he's going to cancel the midterms, or he won't cancel them, but he'll have ICE goons at polling places watching how we vote. He's fortifying the White House because he'll refuse to give up power.
I try to answer those posts with lots of reasons why our worst imaginings almost never come true, and how he's tried to cheat before but never succeeds. Then I read the day's news and think I'm being way too optimistic! But despair will defeat us as surely as Trump would
would.
I think of JFK's quote often: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." But I'm old and can't walk without a cane or a walker. I won't be of any use if it comes to manning the barricades or storming the White House. It's terrifying to think that he and his evil cohorts (and they *are* evil) will win, and this dystopia will get worse and go on and on.
I'm sure it's wrong to wish harm on another. But surely not just this country, but thw whole world would be better off if he just passed peacefully in his sleep. Soon.
Movements and or wars need people like you to fund them. You can help.
Oh my goodness! Seventy years old here and I feel the EXACT SAME WAY! What an insightful quote from JFK. I fear we are certainly headed that way. However, if that's what it is going to take to protect our democracy for us and future generations, we MUST act. If we do not, we are complicit as well.
I will stand shoulder to shoulder at the barricades with you, Patriot!
Once again, Heather Delaney Reese connects the dots in ways that others are not doing. She has a fairly comprehensive listing of arrests of and interference with US reporters and media organizations, and puts them in the context of the failing and desperate administration that cannot tolerate criticism, that has screwed up badly on issue after issue, and that seems to exist only to preserve the wealth, power, and especially ego of one fragile, sick would-be king who has not only zero understanding of the world he meddles in, but zero empathy for any other human beings outside his inner circle, even including the billionaires and unqualified administrators who have kept him in power.
As an historian I'm interested in the objective evidence that is building, recording Trump's objective deterioration. Heather's daily chronicling of his physical and mental trajectory is one set, recorded from a single consistent source. The five periodic Walter Reed Montreal Cognitive Assessments are another independent record—what are their dates before the last two, May 26 and now? Can anyone think of any other sets of evidence?
His entire Truth Social posting from Day One. He is seen as deteriorating and showing all signs of dementia with his hateful ranting and outright prevarications. Photographs of his physical deterioration like his hands and cankles. Visual evidence of his inability to walk straight. When he is dead and gone, many people trying to regain standing in their country will tell us all sorts of things: nasty smells and body sounds, bandages and ointments left behind, all the hidden things that the staff upstairs sees and the secret service sees, and anyone with eyes sees. Walter Reed doctors going on record with his mental and physical decline. It will all be revealed and we will learn, maybe, not to let this happen again. Hello 25th Amendment?
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Et cetera...
JD has to be the one to initiate it. Then he has to bring the Cabinet on board, then a 2/3 vote approval by Congress. Do you really think that's ever going to happen?
By complete coincidence I am currently re-reading Robert Harris’s “Fatherland “ in parallel with Heather’s posts.
For those who don’t know it the story is set in Germany in the mid 1960s in a world where the Nazis won the war. Churchill is in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the USA and Britain is ruled by a puppet prime minister under King Edward and Queen Wallis. Large swathes of Russia have been absorbed into Germany while the Soviet government fights on from Siberia
In Germany Heydrich has replaced Hitler, elections have been abolished and the country is run by an uneasy partnership of the SS, the SA and the Gestapo. Corruption and profiteering are rife.
The concentration camps have been expanded to accommodate “enemies of the state”
As a picture of the endgame of a country’s collapse into dictatorship the parallels are chilling
Worth a read or alternatively there was a movie made of it a while ago
That sounds interesting, Richard. Thank you.
If that interests you, and history and activism, I highly recommend the other Heather(I’m sure you already read), HCR, and definitely Lance Rosen. He is a longtime activist involved in Civil Rights, he and his wife. He integrates his experiences into his writings…especially Hitler, Nazi Germany and our current situation parallels and moving forward.
I’m a supporter and nothing to gain except adding to discussions of like-minded people on the right side of history.
There are more discussion and he engages on Facebook(more so) and Also on Substack.
Lance Rosen’s most recent…https://substack.com/@lancefrosen/note/c-292624514?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
https://substack.com/@lancefrosen/note/c-287021997?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I constantly refer to "the Heathers" as the citizens who saved the USA. Past tense, because I live in hope. Thank you thank you thank you.
The amount and construction of Trump’s posts point to the fact that they are not composed and posted in real time. Someone is writing them for him, before they’re needed by him, and as part of the regime’s communication strategy. Trump’s mental health is incapable of doing anything with clarity. Even if his clarity is foggy, confused, and delusional.
Thank you to your commitment to tell the truth amidst all of the horrors that we are seeing under this corrupt and cruel president and administration! I am a Canadian and, like most of us, are hoping to see accountability and better days soon ahead. From across the border it is exhausting seeing daily news of such a deliberate yet incompetent president. However, I am pleased to be a subscriber and read your daily columns. Keep up the good work and don't give up! That goes for all journalists, writers and others not afraid to continue to tell the truth.
Thank you Heather. It’s apparent that the Tangerine-waddle is becoming cornered and there are probably moments of clarity that he gets it.. it’s also the primal fear that lashes out and now there are no longer ones in the room to tell him No.. The mind, it’s a terrible thing when going to waste, especially the President’s…would be nice if there was a way to remove someone from that office when their capabilities and mind have purely turned to mush, porridge and oatmeal but alas no one will use that amendment because of their own interests.. those interests will always outweigh those of the People..
Stay safe and healthy.. Today is a good day. I don’t ever wish ill will towards people but there are moments that tell you from the Universe that there is coming a correction of sorts.. Sometimes it’s just good to recognize them.. Possibly someone is using that Princess Bubble Wand lighting the way or leaving a trail of those “tiny bubbles” for Mitch who knows but that wand is not going to do him any good where he is going…Maybe we should ask Peter Jennings who he has recently called and talked with for 20 minutes…
Agree TJ, but we also have to step up and do our part to protest (as you are already doing), and have our voices heard.
He/they are attacking hard. We must keep resisting.
You probably already read Lance’s most recent.
Be safe.
Exhausting is a good word, please make it stop. (So long Lindsay, can't say we'll miss you).