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Trumps odd 'Unabomber' story is just the latest example in a worrying trend
The presidents story made no sense and he also doesn't always appear to know what his own administration is doing.
July 19, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
By Michael A. Cohen, MSNBC Columnist
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump told a story that, even for the least honest president in American history, was notable.
During an energy and technology summit in Pittsburgh, Trump claimed that his uncle John Trump, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, Trump said. Fifty-one years, whatever. Longest-serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear, chemical and math. Thats a smart man.
Though Trump has claimed for years that his deceased uncle is the longest-serving professor at MIT, its not true, and it has been repeatedly debunked. But Trump was only getting started. Kaczynski was one of his uncles students, Trump said. He then asked the audience, Do you know who Kaczynski was? and cryptically noted, Theres very little difference between a madman and a genius.
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This is an interesting story, but what is most notable about the presidents digression is that none of it was true.
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Trumps Unabomber tale is yet another example of the what can feel like an increasing disconnect from reality. Yet, as with so many of Trumps recent and unsettling statements, too many in the mainstream media seem uninterested in covering the story. Trumps Unabomber story has received scant coverage, despite reflecting a repeated pattern of confused and exaggerated statements. ..................(more)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-unabomber-story-biden-cognitive-decline-rcna219453

malaise
(286,770 posts)This should be receiving way more coverage in MAGAt world
Get thee to the greatest page for visibility
dalton99a
(89,472 posts)His skull is full of sludge. He's fucked up
livetohike
(23,540 posts)early onset dementia (RIP). He would tell elaborate stories none of which were true. One of his favorites was that he was fighting in Vietnam. A very detailed battle. He was never in Vietnam. He was never in the service.
BOSSHOG
(43,329 posts)On my third mothers side was best man at George Washingtons wedding. Really a sharp guy.
Scrivener7
(56,484 posts)I can't remember how it went. Either Epstein and Kaczynski took the same class somewhere or Epstein took a class taught by Kaczynski.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,314 posts)
emulatorloo
(46,010 posts)But media was very interested in the fact that if Biden had a hypothetical fall he might end up in a hypothetical wheelchair.
In the meantime Bidens still upright and is sharp as a tack in his recent interviews.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)This story is certainly part of his trend of exaggerations and outright falsehoods, but it is a rather extreme version: he basically just made up an impossible conversation with his uncle to connect himself to the Unabomber. It's bonkers stuff.
We've all memory holed his mistaken identity of helicopter crashing with Willie Brown, which could be chalked up to an example of simple mistaken identity (though Trump and his people doubled and tripled down rather than admit the mistake).
But what would be the mistaken identity here? His uncle died in 1985. The Unabomber wasn't identified until 1996. His uncle taught at MIT. The Unabomber never attended MIT. What would be the confused conversation? There is none. He just made it up wholesale. It's completely crazy.
Hey Joe
(117 posts)the almost total failure of corporate mainstream media to report the ineptitude, larceny and cruelty of this maladministration.
So afraid of losing access to, or being sued by,
this corrupt, fucking maniac that the real story goes untold.
They neednt wonder why nobody listens to or believes them anymore. They shit their own bed
by failing to do their only job again and again.
PlanetBev
(4,358 posts)I wont be satisfied until this worthless oxygen sucking reptile is drooling in a corner with a pant load.
quakerboy
(14,454 posts)Cause the rest isn't a change from the norm
Javaman
(64,259 posts)Grandpa Simpson with the nuclear codes
ms liberty
(10,401 posts)Now he's become a believer in his own propaganda and to a point, a tool to be manipulated by those around him.
Johonny
(24,189 posts)Without Trump releasing the files, we may never know if these statements are false.
surfered
(7,992 posts)nowforever
(564 posts)it would be dissected by the press daily and he would be labeled a severely demented incompetent leader. This press is dutifully ignoring his rambling inanity and lies for fear of being called nasty I guess. This idiot president is destroying the world order and we have a press that is neutered.