Dem Senator Pleads For Appropriate Takes On Trump’s ‘Thermonuclear Meltdown’ [Video]

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Sunday urged for appropriate coverage of what he called Donald Trump’s “thermonuclear meltdown” in the final leg of the 2024 presidential race.

“I sure hope no one on social media or in the traditional media sugarcoats the thermonuclear meltdown Trump is having,” Schatz posted on X, formerly Twitter. “He’s indulging in a fair amount of violent talk, paranoid fantasies, and promises of retribution. Please no ‘candidates trade barbs in final hours.’”

In the last stretch of the campaign, the Republican nominee has continued to derail off message, after increasingly erratic rhetoric and behavior in recent weeks led hundreds of health care professionals to warn the 78-year-old is “concerningly short of any standard of fitness for office.”

The former president has imagined former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) being gunned down, warned that the start of a second Trump administration may be “nasty,” and signaledhe will put an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in …