‘Take the phone away’: Luke Russert and Symone Sanders Townsend slam Trump’s ‘weird’ late-night posts

MS NOW’s Luke Russert and Symone Sanders Townsend urged advisers close to Donald Trump to intervene after the president once again went on a bizarre late-night Truth Social posting spree .

“Take the phone away from our president,” Russert said.

The spree began Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday morning. One post included a clip of a man being attacked by a tiger at a wildlife park in England along with the caption, “Don’t ever mess with nature! President DJT.” (The 23-year-old victim involved in that attack later died.) Trump also posted an artificial intelligence-generated video of him chasing and taming a tiger before hugging it as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” played.

On Wednesday’s “The Weeknight,” Russert called the president’s posts “sick,” “weird” and “demented,” saying Trump’s behavior has “gotten to be very troubling.” He said it may be time for those close to Trump, like top aide Natalie Harp , to step in.

“If you are there, Natalie, take the phone away,” he said.

Russert contrasted the reaction to Trump’s behavior with the intense scrutiny of former President Joe Biden’s physical and mental fitness prior to his decision to leave the 2024 presidential race .

“[Biden] went and got ice cream. He had a little limp in his gait. He went to Sunday Mass. He rode his bike. And everybody said, ‘Joe Biden was unwell, Joe Biden couldn’t go on to be president. Joe Biden was not healthy enough’ — Joe Biden was never putting up videos of people getting mauled by tigers at three in the morning,” Russert said.

“I think that one’s mental state of doing that is much more troubling than if you have a little limp in your walk going to Sunday Mass,” he added.

Sanders Townsend, who previously served in the Biden administration, agreed with her co-host and said Trump’s behavior is “not even in the same realm” as his predecessor’s. In addition to his social media behavior, the MS NOW host said she was concerned about repeated instances of the president appearing to fall asleep during meetings or other public events.

“And we’re just supposed to keep on going on like everything is regular?” she asked.

“This man is very unwell,” Sanders Townsend said of Trump. “I don’t know if it’s age or if it’s something else, but clearly something is going on.”

She questioned why concerns about the president’s mental fitness were not “front-page news every single day,” calling some members of the press “disingenuous,” “given all the things they said about Joe Biden.”

“All the people that were, like, up in arms about Joe Biden, please come to the front and tell me what you want the public to do about Donald Trump,” Sanders Townsend said.

You can watch Russert and Sanders Townsend’s full comments here .

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