Trump Posts and Quickly Deletes Typo-Filled Message Amid Dementia Concerns
Kelly said Hegseth’s court-martial threat was intimidation and pledged to continue holding the administration accountable.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYRadarOnline is a tabloid-style outlet, and the article uses sensational framing while offering limited verification or independent sourcing. It does identify an author and attributes statements to named public figures, but those features do not offset the outlet’s weaker institutional signals.
- Source type — Tabloid-style national outlet; weaker institutional credibility than established general-news organizations.
- Editorial standards — The story relies on sensational language and provides little visible verification or contextual reporting.
- Author attribution — A named author is provided.
- Transparency — The article attributes some statements and references screenshots captured by another outlet, but does not identify that outlet in the text.
The article supplies quoted posts and responses from named figures, but provides little independent corroboration, context for the legal citation, or evidence for the dementia concerns raised in the headline. Its loaded wording also blurs reporting and judgment.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The story includes Trump’s posts, Hegseth’s position and Kelly’s response, but does not provide independent legal analysis, medical evidence for the headline’s concern, or meaningful context from the targeted lawmakers beyond Kelly.
- Source diversity — Quotes the principal figures’ posts and remarks, but offers little independent or expert sourcing.
- Counterarguments presented — Includes Kelly’s response, but does not provide a substantive response from Trump or broader context from the other lawmakers.
- Loaded language — Uses strongly evaluative descriptions of Trump’s posts.
- Omitted context — The headline’s dementia framing is unsupported by medical evidence in the article.
The article’s repeated use of terms such as “wild,” “bitter,” “alarming” and “shocking” frames Trump’s conduct negatively. The headline’s reference to dementia concerns is not substantiated with medical or other independent sources in the story.
- Language tone — Repeatedly uses evaluative language to characterize Trump’s posts and remarks.
- Headline — Raises dementia concerns without presenting supporting evidence in the article.
- Framing — Emphasizes Trump’s attacks and Hegseth’s threat, with Kelly’s response presented as a rebuttal.
Donald Trump posted and deleted a typo-filled Truth Social message quoting a federal law and urging action, then reposted a corrected version. The article connects the messages to Trump’s criticism of Senator Mark Kelly and to Kelly’s response to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threat to recall him for court-martial.
RadarOnline reports that Trump deleted an error-filled Truth Social post quoting Title 18, Chapter 115, Section 2387, then posted a similar version with corrected wording. The article says Trump appeared to use the quotation to attack Democratic lawmakers who had urged service members and intelligence personnel not to follow illegal orders.
The article says Trump called the lawmakers the “Seditious Six” and described their conduct as seditious and punishable by death. It reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to recall Kelly to active service for a court-martial. Kelly called the threat intimidation and said he would continue supporting the Constitution and holding the administration accountable.
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- Readers of left-leaning coverage: not enough votes yet
- Readers of right-leaning coverage: 57% good look
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SWIPE →Arizona senator targeted by Trump and Hegseth, who responded publicly to Hegseth’s threat
President whose deleted and revised Truth Social posts are the article’s focus
Trump's version of this story ↗Defense secretary who threatened to recall Kelly to active service for a court-martial
Former vice-presidential candidate mentioned as a target of Trump’s recent insult
Part of a bigger story
3 OUTLETSMark Kelly is involved in a dispute with the Trump administration over his remarks about illegal military orders. Center outlets focus on Trump's deleted, typo-filled post and Kelly's response to Pete Hegseth's court-martial threat, while raising dementia concerns. Right-leaning outlets argue Kelly and Slotkin have not identified illegal orders and portray their warning as unsupported.
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