Iran cracked the code on Trump and is exploiting his 'rapidly decaying' cognition: expert

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Iran has been playing trump and trump's mental issues.

Iran appears to have identified and systematically exploited President Donald Trump's rapidly decaying cognitive abilities.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-06-23T03:00:52Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677077672

Iran appears to have identified and systematically exploited President Donald Trump's rapidly decaying cognitive abilities.

That's according to Atlantic staff writer and national security scholar Tom Nichols, who joined MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" on Monday. Wallace argued that Trump is operating inside an "artificial reality" constructed by aides who feed him selectively curated social media posts to shield him from negative information about the economy and the war. The arrangement, Wallace said, explains moments like Trump's repeated insistence that the country is "hot."

"I used to think he was lying. Now I think he's deluded," Wallace said, calling it a "threat to global stability."

Nichols agreed with the withering verdict.

"Delusion is the word I was going to use when you were asking about this, because he is self-deluded," Nichols echoed. "I have said many times on this show that I think his cognitive abilities are decaying rapidly."

Aides who once told Trump hard truths have stopped doing so, he said.....

Nichols argued that Iran had "figured something out" that Trump refuses to accept: that two months of high gas prices would damage him politically far more than depleting U.S. weapons stockpiles. That assessment tracks with earlier reports that Iranian negotiators were recruiting senior psychologists to tailor messages for what they described as Trump's "impaired mental state."

[Ocelot II]

1. Direct link to Nichols' piece in The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/06/trump-g7-comments-misunderstsand-middle-east/687569/?gift=xvLgBqzb2OTKrrgtPA3CYiaNozdWupuEZt5iBsAeWBg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Thank you

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Democrats should following Iran's lead.

The Art of War and all that.

[Raven123]

3. Perhaps, but I've been hearing for a while that Iran's strategy was to survive

They have always known they could not out muscle the USA. They have experience in outlasting presidents. The “close the strait” strategy is no secret. The difference IMO is that, unlike many in the USA, they don’t expect anything other than a complicit SCOTUS, or a compliant Congress. They assume those entities are a part of the problem and plan act accordingly.

[The Roux Comes First]

5. When Your Baseline is to Tell Yourself That Remembering 4 of 5 Nouns After a Bit of Clock-sketching

And animal-naming is a gee-whiz proof of "genius," it doesn't take a whole lot of aging or grease-guzzling to cause "cognition decay." I.e., there was little there to begin with.