Trump's "Adderall-infused rant" had "the demented energy of one of Hitler's Nuremberg rallies"

[Miles Archer]

It’s Time to Kick Trump, 79, Out of the White House—and Into a Padded Cell
THE CUCKOO'S NEST
The president’s latest speech to the nation had all the demented energy of one of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies.
David Rothkopf

Updated Dec. 18 2025 4:13PM EST
Published Dec. 18 2025 2:58PM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-time-to-kick-trump-79-out-of-the-white-houseand-into-a-padded-cell/

From a political perspective, the president’s intentions were as clear as his results were a failure. Trump and his team of deranged Christmas Elves thought an unhinged remake of Bad Santa was just the thing his plummeting ratings needed. But his used-car-salesman-on-coke demeanor sent a message of desperation; his efforts to command people to believe him rather than their own lived experiences very likely compounded the collective unease with this particular moment in U.S. history.

From a psychological perspective, it offered a textbook case of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ theory of the stages people go through as they grapple with impending mortality. Trump displayed not just one but all three of the first stages observed by the psychiatrist in dying subjects: denial, anger and bargaining. He denied reality. He ranted angrily. He promised checks of $1,776 each to every member of the military, even though he, as president, has no authority to independently do so. And, as it turns out, of course, he hadn’t. He simply renamed a payment already going to members of the military as a housing supplement in order to get credit for it. He also suggested tariffs were a bonanza that would produce more such gifts even though, as every economist knows, they are actually one of the biggest tax hikes in modern American history.

He blamed every problem he hasn’t solved on his predecessor, Joe Biden, who, incidentally, left office almost a year ago. He also went after his favorite scapegoat, immigrants. You know, the people who built America. Indeed, he infused the speech with so much anti-immigrant hate speech that, translated into German, it would have been indistinguishable from a Nuremberg rally.

Trump’s audience, however, was probably not keeping such a close eye—or watching at all. If they had tuned in for the speech, they probably tuned back out after a few minutes. Because, honestly, who needs this nonsense when they could just as easily be watching TikTok videos of people being reunited with long-lost pets? Of course, the newslessness and needlessness of it all does beg the question of why television networks actually ran this Adderall-infused rant at all.