A President Who Has Always Been Out of His Depth Is Now Losing His Mind
We begin with the clear and present danger of a president who has always been out of his depth but is now losing his mind. Perhaps more alarming is that a third of the country don’t seem to notice or care that Trump is destroying America and since the manchild is increasingly having tantrums, he could try to destroy the world. Joining us is Dr. Allen Frances, a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University. He is the author of the award-winning international bestseller Saving Normal and the reference work Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis and his latest book is Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, now out in an updated paperback version.
Trump’s White House Press Ban Backfires With Xi Annoyed the Western Media Did Not See All the Pomp and Ceremony Trump Laid On For the Chinese Dictator
Then we examine how Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico has backfired with the major networks showing solidarity unless and until Trump allows CNN back into the White House pool resulting in China’s dictator being annoyed at Trump because western media was not seeing all the pomp and ceremony Trump was laying on for Xi. Joining us is James Risen, professor of journalism at the University of Maryland and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author whose investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling books are Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War. Formerly the Senior National Security Correspondent at The Intercept and a former investigative journalist with The New York Times, his latest book is The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy.
The Impact of Friday’s Supreme Court Ruling Allowing DHS to Build a Database to Purge Voters Based on Trump’s Obsessive Lies
Then finally we assess the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling allowing DHS to build a database to purge voters based on Trump’s obsessive lie that millions of “illegals” vote. Joining us is Dr. Michael McDonald, a Professor of Political Science at University of Florida. He is a principal investigator on the Public Mapping Project, a project to encourage public participation in redistricting, and also is the Director of the University of Florida’s Election Lab. His latest book is From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election and he does regular voting analysis of the 2026 elections at michaelmcdonald.substack.com.