I wonder if it has finally occurred to mainstream media like the New York Times...

[Tom Rinaldo]

...just how incredibly bad it will look for them if Trump's increasing dementia becomes impossible to hide by Inauguration Day,, should Trump regain the presidency. How the hell did they "miss it"? That's a question they won't have any answer for, let alone a good one..

Trump's warning signs have been flashing Red for months, but the mainstream media has chosen to blow right through them, and for the most part refused to cover it. They had no trouble, of course, endlessly covering Biden's supposed age related issues before he withdrew, however.. Trump would be the oldest President ever inaugurated should he win in November, yet that fact is barely noted. Can you imagine the public reaction to a full Inaugural Address by Trump being viewed in full by tens of millions? Knowing that his four year term in office is not yet one day old? It's all going down hill, and fast. It could well become the political story of the century so far, when the 25th amendment needs to be invoked during Trump's first year in office (whether or not it actually would be, given the deplorable state of the Republican story, is another matter.)

They have less than three weeks to go for their coverage of Trump to catch of with the reality of his rapid deterioration. There are signs that they may be starting to desperately play catch up on this story, but their efforts so far do not begin to approach the magnitude of this story. Time is running out.

[ramedy]

1. The NYT is trash.

They have become a disgrace to journalism.

[Klarkashton]

2. As long as the tax cuts are kept in place Trump could have Nuremberg rallies of proud boys and the billionaire will cheer

[elleng]

3. How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.'s New Donor Class

Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.

By Jonathan MahlerRyan Mac and Theodore Schleifer
Jonathan Mahler reported this article over two months from New York and San Francisco with Ryan Mac, who covers corporate accountability in the tech industry, and Theodore Schleifer, who covers billionaires’ influence on American politics.

'Last February, the billionaire financier Nelson Peltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly Republican donors and a handful of G.O.P. strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla. There were plenty of people in the room who had publicly disavowed former President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol — Peltz among them — but it was pretty clear now that he was going to be the candidate, and it was time to get onboard and figure out how to help him win. There were a lot of problems. An especially uncomfortable one was that a lot of donor money was going to paying Trump’s mounting legal bills rather than building a serious political campaign. . .

Now, over a dinner of shrimp and lobster tails, he put the matter in stark, existential terms: Were Biden to win in November, the Democrats would use the ongoing flood of immigrants to create a permanent majority. If they failed to get Trump into office, Musk said, this would be America’s last free election.

Musk has always seen himself as the protagonist of his own science-fiction novel, on a hero’s quest to save humanity. It’s the legacy of a childhood as a geeky bookworm but also of his years in Silicon Valley during the great tech boom of the early 2000s. He and his fellow tech leaders were not just businessmen; as they saw it, they were visionary founders reinventing the world. . .

Over the course of this election cycle, a group of these men have coalesced around a new mission: putting Donald Trump back in the White House. They are the Republican Party’s ascendant donor class, and they operate on a plane very different from that of the donors who preceded them. They have not only a seemingly limitless amount of money to help make this particular vision a reality but also their own media profiles and platforms to use toward that end.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/magazine/trump-donors-silicon-valley.html

[lees1975]

5. And yet, Harris is getting more through her billionaire donors.

[progressoid]

4. I think they don't care.

[Silent Type]

6. Searched under "NYT on trump mental decline," several articles in past 2 weeks pop up

And the articles don’t hold back.

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. Yes, that is the indication I've noticed too that they may finally be responding

But "over the last two weeks" means that they mostly ignored it until virtually the final month of the campaign. Compare that with their previous coverage of Biden's "age issues" over virtually a year.

Trump's mental state, at this point, merits almost daily attention.

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. Exactly

This article comments on exactly that: https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/look-new-york-times-suddenly-discovers-trumps-cognitive-decline.html

[maxsolomon]

9. So, a day late and a dollar short?

Not better late than never?

Here's today's article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/politics/trump-rally-speeches.html

Personally, I don't think he's declining cognitively - at least not much. He's always rambled and digressed. He's not missing words or forgetting facts and names. He's still a complete asshole.