Trumps Mental State Just Got Visibly Worse. Will the Media Say So?
During an event billed as a speech about the economy, Donald Trump was addled and confused, rambled incoherently, and launched into strange non sequiturs. Yet\xa0The New York Times\u2019s initial\xa0news story\xa0made the event sound far more normal than it was. Is the press doing an adequate job of analyzing Trump\u2019s deteriorating mental state? We think the answer is an emphatic \u201cno.\u201d We talked to former reporter Meredith Shiner\u2014author of a\xa0recent piece\xa0for\xa0The New Republic\xa0about the successes of GOP media ref-working\u2014who explained why the press largely fails to scrutinize Trump\u2019s mental unfitness for the presidency.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices