Mike Johnson Caught on Mic Accidentally Admitting Trump Is "Unhinged"
By: Edith Olmsted (The New Republic)
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The damning hot mic audio revealed Johnson refusing to deny Donald Trump is "unwell."
House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted that President Donald Trump has become "unhinged" and "unwell" when confronted by a House Democrat on Capitol Hill.
Pennsylvania Representative Madeline Dean approached Johnson off the House floor on Tuesday to sound the alarm about Trump's erratic behavior ahead of the government shutdown—and the speaker didn't push back.
"The president is unhinged. He is unwell," Dean said.
"A lot of folks on your side are too. I don't control him," Johnson shrugged.
"Oh my God, please," Dean scoffed. "That performance in front of the generals?"
"I didn't see it," Johnson sighed.
"That is so dangerous. You know, I serve on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations. This is a collision of those two things. Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing," Dean warned.
Trump delivered a radical far-right screed at Quantico on Tuesday, begging his audience of top U.S. military brass to clap for him as he directed them to use the U.S. armed forces against immigrants and American citizens.
CNN's Manu Raju reported on X Tuesday that Dean and Johnson also had argued about Trump's first post about Hakeem Jeffries, showing the House minority leader wearing a sombrero, with an exaggerated handlebar mustache, while mariachi music played in the background. Trump has since posted a second.
"I think it wasn't my style," Johnson admitted about the stunt the New York Democrat had called "racist."
"Not your style? It's disgraceful. It's negative. It's racist. You should call it out!" Dean hit back.
Dean later told Raju that Johnson had asked rhetorically, "Is that really racist?"
"Is it racist?" Dean exploded in the video. "You put a sombrero on a Black man who's the leader of the House? You don't see that as racist? We need you desperately to lead!"
But Johnson has been a steadfast defender of Trump and isn't likely to fold now. The House speaker spent the following few hours doing interviews on every network being brutally fact-checked for claiming that Democrats had shut down the government because they wanted to lavish undocumented immigrants with free health care.
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Trump Brags About Teaming Up With Project 2025 Creator to Target Dems
Donald Trump apparently no longer has an issue with being associated with Project 2025.
There was a time on the campaign trail when Donald Trump was trying to distance himself from Project 2025, but that has long since passed.
The president is now openly bragging about having Project 2025 officials in his administration—and carrying out their goals. Trump announced in a Truth Social post Thursday morning that he'd be meeting with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought—who he boasted was tied to the Christian nationalist agenda—to discuss which "Democrat agencies" would be getting the ax in the coming days.
"I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent," Trump posted. "I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Several senior Trump administration officials have said that mass layoffs are on the horizon for federal employees, now that Congress has initiated a government shutdown.
In a private call Wednesday with members of the GOP, Vought said that "consequential" layoffs would begin in "a day or two," reported NOTUS's Reese Gorman.
Hours before the government shutdown began, over a bipartisan disagreement on funding Trump's agenda, the president warned that it would be Democrats in executive branch agencies who would face the consequences for the congressional failure—even though it is Republicans who currently control every branch of the federal government.
The White House has so far issued internal agency emails and changed the official White House website to place the blame for the bipartisan shutdown fully on Democrats. That kind of divisive and partisan language not only defies long-standing presidential tradition but is in violation of the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, according to ethics experts. It could also be in potential violation of the Hatch Act, which is designed to limit partisan messaging from federal employees.
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Pretty much shows that Johnson knows damn well that Trump is unfit, yet has been knowingly doing his bidding. So Johnson is not stupid or blind, just irresponsible.
Where is integrity, character, sense of duty, fidelity to the CotUS, rule of law, etc. nowadays?
that doesn't get you elected
Yup, the problem is rooted in the electorate.
A quote from Mark Twain:
Suppose I was an idiot. And suppose I was a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
I saw this video. When he said there were unwell people on the Democrats side I was like....deflect much? That's all this assholes do is deflect, project, and lie their faces off
The Speaker Of The House, at a minimum , did not disagree when one of his colleagues said that the president is not mentally well.
Why the hell isnt this headline news on every media platform in the country ?
Because different people have different opinions, different political views, etc?
And? There is such a thing as news. In previous eras this type of story would have led the evening news.
A fine illustration of why blind partisanship is dangerous.
There is no prominent Democrat that is as unhinged as Trump. Not even in the same ballpark. The right would probably say AOC, which would be ludicrous.
I dont know where the Republicans would be without laughable whataboutism.
I fully agree.
That was not the point I made. My point is that Johnson is illustrating the dangers of blind partisanship.
To be clearer, I am emphasizing Johnson admitting that Trump is unhinged by using the word 'too'.
He did not deny the allegation, just noted that Trump is not the only politician who is unhinged.
That's weird, there are no water carriers here to explain what speaker into Trumps' Johnson, really was referring to, when he made no such re4buke to an oh so obvious accurate description of the mentally unstable depiction Trumperz sure as hell did display with his unhinged American Citizens are the real Enemy of ou country and our Armed Forces may need to practice on them. WTF does it take, for people to admit it was a mistake, to again elect this wanna be dictator that I wish I could say was a fake, cause he is not, he is just one gigantic mistake, and people better admit and wake up to as much, B 4 we get much further, cause we are gonna most definitely be in Constitutional Crisis Time, If not already, cause it was obvious by the Brass reactions, they know what Johnson knows, and the ones who refuse to recognize is how democr5acy dies, so expect more lies lies lies
First, that's a concession that he is unhinged. But second "a lot of folks on your side" aren't the fucking president.