Thursday, December 18, 2025

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

Tom Nichols: Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.

Posted by retort at 12:03 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

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For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, "drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he's doing a great job," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:[image or embed]

-- The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) Dec 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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... Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, "drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he's doing a great job," ...

Scheduling a prime-time White House address by the President a day in advance, and also making the major networks cover it, is usually reserved for a time when the Country, not the President, is facing some manner of a crisis.


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 02:11 PM

We've had some pretty bad flooding in last week, and then we got some winds yesterday that caused all kinds of havoc. We were having 100 mph gusts with 60 mph sustained. Record 144 mph for some of my neighbors in Wyoming! Both the roof on my house the shop survived unscathed.

Anyway, my point is, farckin Joe Biden!

#2 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-12-18 04:24 PM

"drenched in pure panic as he(Trump) tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he's doing a great job"

That's what I saw.

His resources for dealing with failure are to retreat into profound fantasy or into violence.

All will love Trump or despair.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-18 05:05 PM

Claims success but won't release the statistics, still believing that he defines reality.

#4 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2025-12-18 11:38 PM

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