Jim Acosta believes Trump is 'detached from reality' and 'may not make it to end of his term'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Former CNN firebrand Jim Acosta is sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s health and stamina.

According to Acosta, Trump “may not make it to the end of this term."

Jim Acosta chimes in on Donald Trump's health

The former legacy media darling, who has covered Trump for years, says he cannot imagine the 79-year-old commander-in-chief making it all the way to 2029. He claims the president has shown “rapid decline” barely a year into his second term and that even Trump’s inner circle is quietly clocking the shift.

The once-feared “dear leader” of the West Wing has declined into something closer to “goodnight grandpa, according to Acosta.

Chatting on Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, Acosta said the signs are impossible to miss. With Trump set to be 82 when this term ends, Acosta argues the strain is already showing.

Jong-Fast compared the administration’s latest cabinet meetings to “North Korean-style” spectacles, with officials lining up to pour praise on Trump. 

“He was out. It was not just with Linda McMahon, but Marco Rubio; it was several people around the table,” Acosta added, describing a president who looked more spaced-out than strongman.

“You've gone from the dear leader treatment to the goodnight grandpa treatment. They're each taking turns putting Donald Trump asleep [sic] as they're going around the cabinet room these days. It seems to me like, this is not the same guy we saw on the campaign trail even like, a year and a half ago. I've been around him enough to know the contrast is there,” he said.

Jim Acosta says Donald Trump 'seems extremely tired'

Acosta pointed to what he sees as a subtle retreat from public scrutiny when it comes to Trump's recent engagements with the media.

“He seems extremely tired. I will tell you, having covered him up close, where are the press conferences? He doesn't do press conferences. The most he can do now is, he brings the little kids into the room, and he screams at them and calls them names, and then he sends them away,” Acosta said.

According to him, whatever passes for Trump’s Q&A sessions these days happens “on Air Force One or in the Oval Office.”

"That's the extent of him doing question and answer time is on Air Force One or in the Oval Office. He doesn't do rallies. That special election in Tennessee, where he literally phoned it in. In the old days, he would've done a hanger rally, but he doesn't do that anymore,” he noted. 

“I did not think we would get to the end of this year, and my prevailing thinking on Donald Trump is ‘is he going to make it to the end of this term?’” The ex-CNN anchor said.

“Because he is more and more out to lunch by the day, he seems more detached from reality and just seems cognitively in a very different place than he was even a year ago. The naps, the Truth Social posts, the stuff he's saying about Somali immigrants. Some of this you can say ‘isn't this the s**t he's been saying since 2015’, yes, to some extent that's true, but it feels like, you know... There is something going on,” Acosta added.