The DSR Network The Daily Blast: Trump’s Angry, Crazed Eruption over Cognitive Test Backfires on Itself
Oct 28, 2025
Meredith Shiner, a contributing editor at The New Republic, critiques media coverage of the Trump administration and its real-world impacts. They discuss Trump's bizarre rant about a cognitive test, revealing his mental decline and underlying racism. Shiner connects his attacks on nonwhite women to harmful federal policies affecting communities, especially in Chicago. The conversation underscores the media's failures in holding Trump accountable and highlights the need for Democrats to expose the true power dynamics behind his administration.
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Racist Rant Reveals Broader Decline
- Donald Trump publicly disparaged AOC and Jasmine Crockett's intelligence while boasting about his own cognitive test performance.
- Meredith Shiner argues this attack reveals both racism and growing signs of Trump's mental decline that the press largely avoids covering.
Insults Signal Policy Harm
- Shiner links Trump's insults to a larger administration effort that harms communities, especially Black women civil servants.
- She says national media fail to show this broader context and the undermining of democratic norms.
Chicago Neighbors Respond With Whistles
- Meredith Shiner describes Chicago residents carrying whistles and organizing after aggressive ICE actions and federal raids.
- She connects those grassroots responses to a media-fueled depiction of urban life and xenophobic federal enforcement.