Contents of said letter from daily beast: https://archive.is/YFBK3#selection-773.0-779.748
“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.”
This is fucked up journalism inside the fucked up story that is super fucked up. Look at this - in the first quote they replace whatever word he used with [79]. Why? Presumably the original word was “old” and they wanted to reinforce the 79 as that has become shorthand for dementia, since the press has decided they can’t say anything due to their billionaire owners telling them they can’t say anything about it.
But what if it was “super fucked up”? That’d have been a way better quote.
And the constant referring to Xitter is awful, and the “shows signs of [decline] multiple outlets have reported” as if they’re not allowed to say it, as if it’s not as obvious as the nose on one’s face. They won’t take the burden of saying it, they’ll refer you to other corporate propaganda rags that have meekly implied it for them.
SAD!
Am I missing something? If you actually click the link to the tweet you’d have seen that Brian Schatz said, and I quote directly:
“I don’t see how you can be a serious person and not find this extremely worrisome. He is not stable at all and his reality is warped. He was always a bit like this of course but now he’s 80.”.
There is no replacement of the word “old” or anything like that, at the very least it was a minor correction from 80 y/o to Trumps actual age of 79 y/o.
And even if that is the case, replacing “old” with “79” or “80” would have been way more damning in my opinion. Maybe I’m too young for this shit but “old” for me is 55+. Not fucking retirement age, AKA 67+ where I live, let alone 79 or 80 years old.
I truly don’t know what to make of this comment. Yeah trump is a shithead and I truly am sad that he still isn’t 6 feet deep, but what are you trying to achieve with this comment? It just seems like ragebait aimed at journalist or something, I really, truly, don’t know.
EDIT: made a couple of small edits to make my points more clear. Don’t know if lemmy lets you see the first version of a post but if it does feel free to compare. As of this edit I still stand by my point
Journalists are scared pansies. What a joke of a field. If you’re a journalist, you should be ashamed and ridiculed. In a time where so many people wish they could do more to stop fascism or stand against it, the people that have power would rather suck boots and protect pedos.
Journalists have power. They refuse to use that cuz they need to make money. Money before truth.
Hey now. 128 journalists were killed and 503 detained in 2025. There are journalists out there risking their lives to deliver the truth. They’re just getting rarer because fascists keep murdering them.
I’m talking about the ones that report stuff like this article. Journalists that are close to domestic politics in the US.
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.