Today is Friday, October 3, 2025. As the world wrestles with the scumbag known as Donald J. Dump’s declining health and mental acuity, one online article truly paints a very vulnerable despot on AlterNet by Lesley Abravanel entitled “‘Never seen the president this scared’: correspondent unmasks ‘maniacal’ Trump.”

That White House correspondent is seasoned journalist Brian Karem, who has covered president Donald Chump full-time since 2016, says in a piece for Salon that he’s “never seen the president this scared.”

Karem, who has covered every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan, “sued Donald Trump three times successfully to keep his press pass,” he says in his bio.

Though he had a front-row seat to “the carnage” of Dump’s first term, this time around, it’s different, Karem writes, noting Dump is playing the “victim.”

The president’s actions, Karem says, are “those of a despot trying to seize power.” The White House correspondent pointed to Dump’s demand for the military to use American cities as training grounds for the U.S. military and his proliferation of ICE agents who beat and detain American citizens.

Karem adds here, “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump’s dog of war, has instituted some of the most racist regulations seen in the military since it was integrated nearly 80 years ago.”

The seasoned pro sees a deeper reason for why Dump is acting more maniacal lately.

“He is the proverbial New York sewer rat, cornered and lashing out in a desperate attempt to survive. He also knows he is becoming more vulnerable. But it’s not just his own mortality, shrinking mental acuity and the Jeffrey Epstein case that is scaring him,” Karem states.

Karem feels what is setting Dictator Don off like “a wild animal with its leg caught in a trap” is his 2023 indictment on 37 felony counts stemming from a nonpartisan FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago that turned up classified documents. Remember that case, folks? I sure haven’t forgotten and neither has he!

Karem writes about the case, “He’s apparently still so worried about the case that he’s trying to put up costly roadblocks against someone who has only a chance of getting the information revealed.” Look, someone even revealed that horrible impending “Extreme” Court ruling knocking down Roe v. Wade in June 2022. So there’s someone out there with a vendetta against this subhuman who can do the same thing regarding his 2023 indictment.

Karem writes, “Trump’s fear is palpable, and like a New York sewer rat, that’s when he’s at his most dangerous.”

The White House correspondent further notes Dump has a “desire for total control before he loses all command of his mental and physical health.” Which couldn’t come any sooner in my opinion.

Meanwhile, while all of this is going on, Vice President JD Vance, nicknamed the “Maybelline Mascara Man” by a staffer from Forest Hills Indivisible, is waiting eagerly in the wings, having proven he “is capable of pinch hitting for the sultan of political swat.”

According to a source close to Dictator Don, “there is a growing fear that someone in his own inner-circle may whisper the words ’25th Amendment,’ end the Dump presidency, and usher in the ‘The Age of Ultron’ – I mean Vance. That, more than anything else, has Puff Donny scared,” Karem posits. This is not so infeasible since a good swath of the American public is now disliking Republicans more than Democrats for the government shutdown and if things get worse, which they certainly will, someone could come out of the shadows and more than whisper the 25th Amendment, they could shout it. And we are then stuck with the Maybelline Mascara Man until 2028. Which could be worse than having buffoonish Demented Don until that time, but I don’t think so. Vance will not have the almost slavish support of MAGA like this clown did.

You must love MSNBC news host Lawrence O’Donnell who is the lone man of outrage when it comes to criticizing Demented Don’s lack of mental acuity. He consistently goes on the warpath against the legacy press for its lack of outrage over what he calls Dictator Don’s “publicly flaring madness” this week.

In another online article this time for MediaITE, Tommy Christopher writes “MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Rages At Press ‘Sleeping’ Through Trump’s ‘Publicly Flaring Madness.'”

If you ever watch O’Donnell, you know he calls Demented Don the stupidest president every chance he gets. He has consistently called out Trump’s growing incapacity, growing to a crescendo this week amid a series of escalating stumbles, a speech to military leaders that was cringeworthy, and social media antics around the government shutdown.

On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, the host trained his journalistic eye on The New York Times over an editorial that insufficiently assessed Dump’s “insanity” and a Washington press corps that is “sleeping” through Little Donnie’s “madness.”

O’Donnell made light of The Times’ characterization of Dump’s “bombastic tweets” immediately following the government shutdown which this pathological liar blamed on the Democrats and which he threatened to fire thousands of federal workers if Democrats did not provide the votes to keep the government open. He felt these tweets were not just “bombastic,” they were really insane.

Then O’Donnell provided a video clip of Rep. Madeline Dean (D-PA) confronting the lapdog of Dump, House Speaker MAGA Johnson, about how unhinged and unwell the damn president is. Then the following fucking admission was made by this false Christian in the House Speakership when he said, “A lot on your side, too.” Here is the Speaker actually admitting that the Supreme Leader is indeed unwell, and all he can muster as a response to Dean’s accurate characterization of Donnie being unwell is that people on the Democratic side are unwell too. Fuck, who was he referring to here? .She should have pressed him on that weak and childish response. But she didn’t; however, we did get an admission of truth from the creepy House Speaker right here.

With this admission, O’Donnell called MAGA Johnson a “coward” and that “he has taken an oath of cowardice to Donald Trump.” Pretty strong words, you would say. O’Donnell added, “He’s not the Speaker of the House. He’s the Speaker of Trump in the House.” So true! It’s the entire repugnican party right now.

Then the veteran MSNBC host ridiculed the liberal newspaper for not stating the obvious about the president – that he’s losing it.

O’Donnell then mocked Vance and the White House for making the government shutdown funny, which will definitely not work in middle America. He talks about a video regarding a sombrero which I haven’t seen, but if the fucking White House released it with Vance’s imprimatur, then it is childish and stupid. This you would never see from any serious administration if the government ever shut down, but this is a very different White House. This is an insane White House and an abnormal one in every fucking way!

O’Donnell ends by scorching the Washington press corps for regarding the crisis at the White House as “business as usual.” He adds, “They have internalized Trump madness in their coverage. They have lost their ability to react to it, but their outrage will be fully revived if a Democratic candidate for president, or if a Democratic president ever says a single negative thing about any kind of American voters, ever, anywhere.” Ain’t that the truth! And Mr. O’Donnell shined a bright light on it on his show Wednesday night.

Today I resumed my usual eating schedule by going out for breakfast and drinking several cups of coffee. I’m amazed over how easily I can give up caffeine these days without experiencing any ill side effects. When I was younger, I had to wean myself off caffeine by drinking decaffeinated coffee a day or two before fasting. Now I can have one last cup of coffee on Wednesday evening and then just give up drinking the elixir for over 25 hours. And I thought it would be harder as I aged, but it isn’t. That’s good for me, I guess.

Tomorrow I might not be writing my blog since I could be traveling into the city with Elliot to first buy tickets for a New York Philharmonic concert on October 30 that showcases Alfred Hitchcock’s groundbreaking Psycho with the terrifying Bernard Hermann score being played by the world-famous orchestra on stage. I thought this seemed like a cool thing to do before Halloween. And for those who know about the genesis of this 1960 shocker, Netflix is now playing a series on the original inspiration for the film, Ed Gein. He served as the inspiration for Robert Bloch’s treatment of the gothic story in his book by the same name which was optioned by Sir Alfred Hitchcock who was looking for another property to put on the big screen. If I can, I would like to see the Netflix series if I can stomach it. What Gein did to his victims in rural La Crosse County, Wisconsin, never got on the screen in Psycho. I can’t repeat what he did then – it’s too horrible to imagine. Just watch the series and see for yourself and see why Gein was declared insane and remanded to a mental institution for the rest of his life. He died at the age of 77 at that mental institution in 1984.

And we might do something else afterward like see a film. I don’t know which yet.

Have a good weekend then.

And so it went!