Loquaciousness

Very.

🚨WAPO COLUMNIST MEGAN MCARDLE: "Jake, I would like to ask you: Do you think the media would have gotten this story sooner if it was Trump?"

TAPPER: "I don’t actually because, um *pause* these health issues are really sensitive to talk about and report."

Do you find his answer… pic.twitter.com/4X1S089Yno

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) May 31, 2025

Tapper went on to say

Theses issues of health are so sensitive to talk about and to report and as you say, yes, we saw weird moments of Joe Biden. We also see weird moments and they're different. They're not the same issues. They're not acuity issues but we see weird moments of Donald Trump calling Nancy Pelosi "Nikki Haley" and the like but it's impossible to say, as as you noted, "this is what's going on behind closed doors" if nobody behind those closed doors is talking. 

So I really just don't think that. There are a million questions I'd like to ask about what's going on behind closed doors in the Trump White House that we can't get because they're not talking. I mean, I get that their job- their job is not to leak to us anymore and this is a much less leaky Trump White House than the first one. So I guess I just don't think so... 

Yes, some weird moments and some health moments. In the former category, not many Presidents have declared "I am the chosen one" (not once, but twice) and "A lot of people are saying, 'Sir, you can't just make yourself king.' But I checked- nowhere in the Constitution does it say I can't."  Obviously, that's even more tyrannical than evil. However, in the category of bizarre (awful, too, but weird) is

"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

The difference, the cynic might suggest, is that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have written about President Biden and not the President who in a Memorial Day message would salute scum, USA-hating Judges, and monsters, but not soldiers who sacrificed their lives. However, Tapper honestly and accurately noted that information about President Trump is being withheld from reporters (as was information about Joe Biden while he was in office).

We know that their job is not to leak anymore about Trump and the rest of the Administration- until they fall out of favor. And so it was on Friday, May 30, The New York Times reported

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Musk announced that he was ending his stint with the government, after lamenting how much time he had spent on politics instead of his businesses.

In the very same article, we read

As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.

Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview.

At the same time, Mr. Musk’s family life has grown increasingly tumultuous as he has negotiated overlapping romantic relationships and private legal battles involving his growing brood of children, according to documents and interviews.

For a long while, Elon Musk was suspected not to be substance-free, as the addiction community would diplomatically put it. Yet, there were only rumors, unadorned by anything approaching investigative reporting. Remind you of anything, Jake? 

With his DOGE, Musk- with or without drugs- did (has done?) more damage to government and people that President Biden ever could have, short of being alone, on his worst day ever, with the nuclear football. But there are parallels. Relatively little was reported by the media of the President's condition (whatever it truly was) during Biden's term because none of his people was talking. 

While Musk was destroying effective and somewhat honest government as President Trump wished, no one was talking while Elon remained in the King's good graces. When he became a political liability eclipsing his value in demolishing civil society, Musk was asked to leave and voila! Ketamine! Ecstasy! Psychedelic mushrooms! Adderall! (Trump's personal favorite, traditionally.) 

There are leakers in the Trump White House. Elon Musk knows, though he won't admit it. Journalists know, also. We'll find out whether they're as interested in listening to those issues as Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have been in the issues of the prior, Democratic Administration.

Share |