>>> NEW REPORTING ON DONALD
TRUMP’S STATE OF MIND WITH AIDES
DESCRIBING HIM AS LOST IN
SELF-PITY, CONVENIENTING ABOUT
NEWS COVERAGE, AND QUOTE,
CONFOUNDED BY THE EVENTS
HAPPENING.
IN INTERVIEWS WITH THE
"WASHINGTON POST," ALLIES AND
ADVISERS SAY TRUMP HAS ADOPTED
A, QUOTE, WOE IS ME TONE,
CASTING HIMSELF IN THE STARRING
ROLE OF THE BLAMELESS VICTIM AS
HE CONFRONTS A SLUMPING ECONOMY,
SURGING PANDEMIC, GROWING RACIAL
UNREST, AND A STUMBLING
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
AT THE SAME TIME, NEW POLLS SHOW
AMERICANS ARE UNHAPPY WITH
TRUMP’S RESPONSE TO MANY.
THESE EVENTS.
TWO-THIRDS NOW DISAPPROVE OF
TRUMP’S HANDLING OF THE
PANDEMIC.
THAT’S THE HIGHEST NUMBER
RECORDED TO DATE.
67% ALSO DISAPPROVE OF TRUMP’S
HANDLING OF RACIAL TURMOIL IN
THIS COUNTRY.
AND NOW TRUMP IS REACTING TO
THOSE CRITICS WITH UNUSUAL
COMMENTS ON HANNITY JUST LAST
NIGHT, DEFENDING HIS OWN MENTAL
FITNESS.
WATCHFUL.
>> I ACTUALLY TOOK ONE, VERY
RECENTLY, WHEN I WAS, YOU KNOW,
THE RADICAL LEFT WAS SAYING, IS
HE ALL THERE, IS HE ALL THERE?
I PROVED I WAS ALL THERE.
I ACED THE TEST.
I TOOK IT AT WALTER REID MEDICAL
CENTER IN FRONT OF DOCTORS AND
THEY WERE VERY SURPRISED.
THEY SAID THAT’S AN UNBELIEVABLE
THING.
RARELY DOES ANYBODY DO WHAT YOU
JUST DID.
>> ALL RIGHT.
JOINING ME NOW IS MARK THOMPSON,
HOST OF THE MAKE IT PLAIN
PODCAST.
AND YOU’VE WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT
TRUMP NATION.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON
WITH THIS COGNITIVE PRESIDENT IS
PRESIDENT IS TALKING ABOUT, AND
THE WAY HE DESCRIBED IT, THE
DOCTORS WERE SURPRISED THAT HE
PASSED IT.
I’M NOT SURE IF THAT’S A
COMPLIMENT OR NOT.
>> LIKE HIS FINANCIAL RECORDS,
THE PRESIDENT HAS YET TO MAKE
HIS HEALTH RECORDS PUBLIC.
WHOEVER THESE MYTHICAL DOCTORS
ARE, IF THEY EXIST, THE
PRESIDENT SHOULD TROT THEM OUT
IN PUBLIC AND THEY SHOULD SIGN
MEDICAL RECORDS THAT DEFINE WHAT
THIS TEST WAS AND WHAT THE
PRESIDENT ACTUALLY PASSED. I THINK THIS IS DONALD TRUMP
I THINK THIS IS DONALD TRUMP
LYING AGAIN PUBLICLY OR FABRIC
IT A
FABRICATING IT.
WHO KNOWS WHAT HE DID AT WALTER
REID IN HE HAND COME CLEAN ABOUT
WHAT THE HOSPITAL VISIT WAS TO
BEGIN WITH.
HAVING SAID THIS, THIS IS
ANOTHER INDICATOR THE PRESIDENT
IS YOU UNDERSTAND PRESSURE
BECAUSE HE HAS FAILED TO LEAD
COMPETENTLY.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST CRISES TO,
THE PAIR OF CRISES EVER TO HIT
THE UNITED STATES, THE PANDEMIC
AND THIS IMPORTANT BLACK LIVES
MATTER MOVEMENT.
AND HE HAS NOT RISEN TO THE
OCCASION TO LEAD AROUND THOSE
THINGS.
TO SHOW THAT HE IS A HEALTHY
ADULT WHO CAN LEARN FROM HIS
MISTAKES AND REGROUP AND COURSE
CORRECT.
INSTEAD, HE’S LOOKING AROUND TO
BLAME OTHER PEOPLE, CASTING
HIMSELF AS THE VICTIM, AND HE’S
WELL AWARE THE PUBLIC IS
DOUBTING BOTH HIS LEADERSHIP AND
HIS COMPETENCY, HIS MENTAL
ACUTIE.
THAT’S WHY HE IS POINTING TO
THESE SO-CALLED COGNITIVE TESTS
TO SAY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED
AT ME AND I’M FINE.
IT’S BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE PUBLIC
IS WORRIED THAT HE’S NOT FINE.
>> YOU KNOW THE STATEMENT CAME
OUT OF THE PRESIDENT’S MIND,
JOURNAL IS ARE WONDERING, WHAT’S
GOING ON?
AIDES TO MR. TRUMP, ACCORDING TO
THE "NEW YORK TIMES," AIDES TO
MR. TRUMP DID NOT RESPOND TO
QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT TEST HE
TOOK, WHEN HE TOOK IT, AND
WHETHER THEY WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE
THE RESULTS PUBLIC, TO TIM’S
POINT EARLIER.
EXPLAIN THIS TO US.
WHAT IS IT WE’RE WATCHING HERE?
THE PRESIDENT GOING ON NATIONAL
TELEVISION SAYING HE’S TAKING
COGNITIVE TESTS, PRAISING
HIMSELF FOR THE RESULTS AND NO
ONE FROM HIS AIDES ON DOWN CAN
CONFIRM IT OR TALK ABOUT IT TO
THE PRESS.
>> AS ALWAYS, HIS INSECURITY IS
WELL KNOWN AND IT’S ENORMOUS.
IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE.
HE IS ATTACKING JOE BIDEN’S
COGNITION, AND YET HE FEELS THE
NEED TO DEFEND HIS OWN.
WHY IN AND THEN TO SAY THAT
EVERYONE WAS SURPRISED THAT HE
DID SO WELL.
THAT’S NOT A VERY INTELLIGENT
THING TO SAY EITHER.
WE DON’T EVEN KNOW IF HE TOOK
TEST OR WHERE IT WAS A
SIGNIFICANT AS A PHYSICIAN TO
SAY, WHETHER IT WAS EVEN A
SIGNIFICANT NEUROLOGICAL EXAM.
THE REAL QUESTION IS NOT JUST
COGNITION BUT ALSO LITERACY.
HE WAS TOLD, HE READ THAT THERE
WAS A PANDEMIC LOOMING AND HE
DID NOTHING.
HE HAS BEEN TOLD THAT RUSSIA IS
SEEKING BOUNTIES FOR THE HEADS
OF U.S. SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN
AND HE HAS DONE NOTHING.
THAT’S NEITHER A QUESTION OF
COGNITION OR LITERACY, I DON’T
KNOW WHAT IS.
>> TO THAT POINT, THE PRESIDENT
APPARENTLY CONFOUNDED PLAYING
THE VICTIM CARD IN ALL THIS.
WE SEE IT IN HIS TWEETS WHEN
HE’S GOING AFTER THE SUPREME
COURT DECISIONS, CALLING THINGS
PRESIDENTIAL HARASS MANY.
DISMISSING THE COURT’S
DECISIONS.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE
PRESIDENT PLAYING THE VICTIM
CARD HERE?
>> WELL, I REALLY WOULD
RECOMMEND YOU MARY TRUMP’S NEW
BOOK.
SHE HAZE OUT IN VERY TELLING
DETAIL THIS HOT HOUSE EMOTIONAL
AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
THAT THE PRESIDENT GREW UP IN,
IN WHICH HIS FATHER HAD A VERY
BINARY VIEW OF THE WORLD.
THERE ARE WINNERS AND LOSERS.
HIS FATHER WAS A RACIST, HIS
FATHER WAS THUGGISH IN HIS
BUSINESS PRACTICES.
DONALD TRUMP ABSORBED, ADOPTED
ALL OF THAT AND WENT OUT INTO
THE WORLD WITH IT.
AND I THINK MARY TRUMP HAS A KEY
OBSERVATION.
THIS IS SOMEONE WHO NEVER FELT
LOVED AND HE SOUGHT IT IN ALL
THESE PUBLIC FORUMS.
I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS HE IS
VERY NEEDY AND WANTS TO BE
CENTER STAGE CONSTANTLY. SHE HAS A VERY TELLING SENTENCE
SHE HAS A VERY TELLING SENTENCE
IN THERE.
THAT DONALD TRUMP FEELS THE
WORLD LET HIM DOWN.
IF YOU ARE NOT SIM THAT A
ATHLETIC BIK IT, HE WILL MAKE
YOU FEEL IT.
DESPITE THAT HE WAS BORN
WEALTHY, DESPITE THE PRIVILEGES
HE WAS BORN INTO, HE CONSTANTLY
HAS THIS FEELING OF HE’S
OPPRESSED.
PEOPLE WILL TAKE THINGS AWAY
FROM HIM.
EVERYONE IS AGAINST HIM.
AND HE’S BEEN DOING THIS, HE’S A
74-YEAR-OLD MAN.
HE’S BEEN DOING THIS FOR AT
LEAST 60 YEARS PUBLICLY.
AND WE’RE JUST SEEING IT PLAY
OUT NOW ON AN INTERNATIONAL
STAGE BECAUSE HE’S PRESIDENT.
>> MARK THOMPSON, THE
PRESIDENT’S STATE OF MIND AS HE
SEES WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THIS
COUNTRY ALL AROUND HIM.
IT HAS BEEN A TOUGH COUPLE WEEKS
WITH THE SUPREME COURT DECISION
AGAINST HIM.
YESTERDAY NEW YORK CITY PAINTED
BLACK LIVES MATTER OUTSIDE TRUMP
TOWER.
WHAT DO YOU THINK AS HE WATCHES
ALL THIS PLAY OUT?
>> WELL, EVEN MENTIONING MARY
TRUMP’S BOOK, THERE IS NO ONE
WORSE IN A POSITION LIKE HIM.
THAT’S WHY HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE REST OF US.
HE FEELS THE WORLD DOESN’T LOVE
HIM.
HE’S A CROSS BETWEEN RODNEY
DANGERFIELD FOR FEELING THAT
WAY, DON RICKLES INSULTING
EVERYONE AND FOSTER BROOKS FOR
HIS INDICATED EBLGS.
THE THREE OF RUSS TOO YOUNG TO
HAVE SEEN THOSE PEOPLE BUT YOU
CAN LOOK THEM UP ON YOUTUBE.
HE EVEN SOUNDS LIKE FOSTER
BOOKS, TO ONE LOVES ME.
HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CO-DEPENDENT
ON SOMEONE WHO FEELS HE’S NEVER
BEEN LOVED.
AND HE WANTS TO MAKE THE REST
US, IF NOT THE WORLD,
CO-DEPENDENT, WHO LOVES HIM.
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
THAT’S WHY HE IS SO LOYAL.
HE PROBABLY DIDN’T HAVE THE LOVE
FROM HIS PARENTS AND SABRELINGS
AND WE CAN’T ALLOW OURSELVES TO
BE VICTIMIZED.
AS FAR AS BLACK LIVES MATTER IS
CONCERN, I’M GLAD IT WAS PAINTED
OUT THERE.
HE HAS CALLED IT SOMETHING
HATEFUL.
HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING
ABOUT AND IT IS A DIRECT LINEAGE FROM HIS FATHER TO HIM.
FROM HIS FATHER TO HIM.
HIS FATHER WHO HIMSELF WAS IN