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| Although the Las Vegas massacre has dominated the news, cartoonist Jeff Darcy, above, and Jimmy Margulies, below, took time to comment on President Trump's belated visit to Puerto Rico last Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory. |
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| Margulies, former editorial cartoonist at my local daily newspaper, The Record of Woodland Park, compares Trump tossing rolls of paper towels to Puerto Rico storm victims to the president tossing a huge tax break to the wealthy. |
Sen. John McCain took $7.7M
from the National Rifle Association
Editor's note: This post has been updated with a link to a New York Times listing of the top 10 career recipients in Congress of National Rifle Association funding -- all Republicans.
-- HACKENSACK, N.J.
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Sadly, the news media are just starting to question Donald J. Trump's mental fitness to hold office.
"The question is not whether the President is crazy but whether he is crazy like a fox or crazy like crazy," Masha Gessen of The New Yorker wrote on Friday.
"Jay Rosen, a media scholar at New York University, has been arguing for months that 'many things Trump does are best explained by Narcissistic Personality Disorder' and that journalists should start saying so," the magazine's website reported.
Gessen said that in March, The New York Times published a letter by two psychiatrists, Robert Jay Lifton and Judith L. Herman.
They said Trump's "repeated failure to distinguish between reality and fantasy, and his outbursts of rage when his fantasies are contradicted" suggest that, "faced with a crisis, President Trump will lack the judgment to respond rationally."
Puerto Rico
Though overshadowed by coverage of the massacre in Las Vegas, Trump's behavior toward the 3.5 million storm victims in Puerto Rico last Tuesday still has many Americans questioning whether the New York billionaire was motivated by racism.
"We've reached the stage of the Trump presidency when the U.S. secretary of state has to call a news conference to deny that he called the president a [fucking] 'moron' -- and then he doesn't actually deny it," says Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations."
Boot, writing an opinion piece for USA Today, moves on to "fresh questions about his [Trump's] mental fitness for office."
"Just consider his response to Hurricane Maria, which caused devastating damage to Puerto Rico," Boot said in the column, which appeared on Friday in The Record of Woodland Park.
Trump 'oblivious'
"The president was oblivious to the size of the catastrophe during the four days after Maria made landfall Sept. 20. He was too busy hanging out at his golf club and lashing out at NFL players for not standing during the national anthem," Boot said.
Boot mentions criticism of Trump and the relief effort by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, and the president's response in a tweet sent from his New Jersey golf club:
"It's hard to imagine anything more moronic than a president using crude racial stereotypes about supposedly lazy Latinos, or picking a needless fight with a mayor after a major disaster."
Boot called Trump's visit to the island "a comedy of errors."
"The most widely seen picture from the trip showed Trump throwing paper towels at hurricane survivors as if they were seals receiving fish from a trainer."
Better than Katrina
Trump said Puerto Ricans "can be very proud" because fewer people died than during Hurricane Katrina.
"This is like telling New Yorkers they can be proud that 9/11 didn't kill as many people as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima."
"The real scandal isn't that Trump's secretary of state called him a moron," Boot said. "It's that his job performance lends so much credence to that description."
Last Sunday night's massacre in Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, covered more than half of Page 1 on Friday in The Record of Woodland Park.
But the editors found room for a sports column about Cam Newton, and a local story about Closter's school business administrator, who allegedly "put a 16-year-old coach into a choke hold" during a peewee football game.
On The Record's front page today, editors ran a large photo of a pitcher over this headline, "YANKS IN 0-2 HOLE."
A story on 5A reported Las Vegal police -- "after chasing a thousand leads" -- are asking for the public's help in finding the gunman's motive.
NRA lobby
Meanwhile, The New York Times said in an Opinion piece Senate and House members who have received National Rifle Association funding "have a lot to say" about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, but "refuse to do anything to avoid the next massacre."
"Most Americans support stronger gun laws -- laws that would reduce deaths. But Republicans in Congress stand in the way. They fear alienating their primary voters" and the NRA, according to The Times.
See: Prayers and NRA funding
Sadly, the news media are just starting to question Donald J. Trump's mental fitness to hold office.
"The question is not whether the President is crazy but whether he is crazy like a fox or crazy like crazy," Masha Gessen of The New Yorker wrote on Friday.
"Jay Rosen, a media scholar at New York University, has been arguing for months that 'many things Trump does are best explained by Narcissistic Personality Disorder' and that journalists should start saying so," the magazine's website reported.
Gessen said that in March, The New York Times published a letter by two psychiatrists, Robert Jay Lifton and Judith L. Herman.
They said Trump's "repeated failure to distinguish between reality and fantasy, and his outbursts of rage when his fantasies are contradicted" suggest that, "faced with a crisis, President Trump will lack the judgment to respond rationally."
Puerto Rico
Though overshadowed by coverage of the massacre in Las Vegas, Trump's behavior toward the 3.5 million storm victims in Puerto Rico last Tuesday still has many Americans questioning whether the New York billionaire was motivated by racism.
"We've reached the stage of the Trump presidency when the U.S. secretary of state has to call a news conference to deny that he called the president a [fucking] 'moron' -- and then he doesn't actually deny it," says Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations."
Boot, writing an opinion piece for USA Today, moves on to "fresh questions about his [Trump's] mental fitness for office."
"Just consider his response to Hurricane Maria, which caused devastating damage to Puerto Rico," Boot said in the column, which appeared on Friday in The Record of Woodland Park.
Trump 'oblivious'
"The president was oblivious to the size of the catastrophe during the four days after Maria made landfall Sept. 20. He was too busy hanging out at his golf club and lashing out at NFL players for not standing during the national anthem," Boot said.
Boot mentions criticism of Trump and the relief effort by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, and the president's response in a tweet sent from his New Jersey golf club:
"It's hard to imagine anything more moronic than a president using crude racial stereotypes about supposedly lazy Latinos, or picking a needless fight with a mayor after a major disaster."
Boot called Trump's visit to the island "a comedy of errors."
"The most widely seen picture from the trip showed Trump throwing paper towels at hurricane survivors as if they were seals receiving fish from a trainer."
Better than Katrina
Trump said Puerto Ricans "can be very proud" because fewer people died than during Hurricane Katrina.
"This is like telling New Yorkers they can be proud that 9/11 didn't kill as many people as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima."
"The real scandal isn't that Trump's secretary of state called him a moron," Boot said. "It's that his job performance lends so much credence to that description."
Last Sunday night's massacre in Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, covered more than half of Page 1 on Friday in The Record of Woodland Park.
But the editors found room for a sports column about Cam Newton, and a local story about Closter's school business administrator, who allegedly "put a 16-year-old coach into a choke hold" during a peewee football game.
On The Record's front page today, editors ran a large photo of a pitcher over this headline, "YANKS IN 0-2 HOLE."
A story on 5A reported Las Vegal police -- "after chasing a thousand leads" -- are asking for the public's help in finding the gunman's motive.
NRA lobby
Meanwhile, The New York Times said in an Opinion piece Senate and House members who have received National Rifle Association funding "have a lot to say" about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, but "refuse to do anything to avoid the next massacre."
"Most Americans support stronger gun laws -- laws that would reduce deaths. But Republicans in Congress stand in the way. They fear alienating their primary voters" and the NRA, according to The Times.
See: Prayers and NRA funding
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Cartoonist Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star Tribune comments on the "moral vacancy" of the National Rifle Association after a lone gunman killed 58 people and wounded nearly 500 others in Las Vegas.
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A photo of actor Tom Hanks wearing an anti-Trump T-shirt appears on the Facebook page of Dump Trump Daily: "I was going to be a Trump voter for Halloween but my head wouldn't fit up my ass."
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Another photo on the Dump Trump Daily page suggests a short speech by Trump will be all hot air.
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