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3:52Now PlayingDonald Trump's mental state is clearly getting worse as he sits at his criminal trial everyday, and he's not bothering to hide it from anyone. An analysis of the former President's posts on Truth Social show that he has become more "isolated, vitriolic, and vengeful" than usual, and he's usually amped up to the max in all three of those categories. He's in a position that he's never been in before, and he doesn't know how to properly handle his own emotions which is now leading to a psychotic meltdown. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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It's no secret that Donald Trump is clearly not having a good time during his criminal trial. Um, you know, nothing so far, and I mean, literally nothing has gone his way. His lawyers have done an absolutely horrific job trying to defend the indefensible at this point. And so everything is really starting to wear Trump down. And we know that because we have seen what he's said and what he's done since the trial started and the Washington Post decided that they were gonna do a quick analysis, well, not quick, it was a very thorough analysis of Donald Trump's posts on truth social since the trial began. And they determined that his posts from the last two weeks compared of course, to the post and the time prior to that have become, quote, well, they say that Trump himself has become more isolated, vitriolic and vengeful. And again, this was an analysis based on the number of attacks that he puts out now compared to what he was doing prior, compared to the language that he uses, the insults that he's hurling.
And of course, the frequency with which he posts and the frequency is the one that tells us how I isolated he is. You know, we, we've talked several times this week about how he's doing these 2:00 AM posts. He's doing a 3:00 AM post. He's doing a, you know, midnight post 'cause he's got no one. He is isolated and he does feel alone. And the only thing he has is that little phone with his truth social app. And that's, that's his only way. But what's happening, which has never happened to Donald Trump before, is he's being put in a position to where he has to learn at the age of 77 how to finally deal with his emotions. And he doesn't wanna learn that, right? He's gone through his whole life being able to have temper tantrum after temper tantrum whenever he wants. And it's never meant anything other than people are gonna give him his way so that he stops whining.
But now he's not getting that. So he has to deal with the anger. He has to deal with the loneliness. He has to deal with the disappointment of people not showing up to protest for him. And he doesn't know how to do it because he should have been taught these things or guided through these processes when he was a child or when he was in his formative years, in his teens, maybe when he was a young man. But he wasn't. Part of it is because he never had to be, he was born into a life of privilege. His parents clearly didn't do their jobs. And now here he is today, a 77-year-old man that doesn't know how to control his emotions. He doesn't
Know how to work through his emotions. He doesn't know what to do. So it results in him getting on truth social or speaking to the cameras outside the courtroom, going off like a lunatic because that is the only thing he knows how to do. It's new territory for him. He's never had to feel this many emotions for this long before. And it's definitely taking its toll on him because what we're seeing happen with these posts on truth social, with these impromptu press conferences, we are watching his brain just melt into mush in real time.
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