by BRIANNA LYMAN
Now that they don’t have to cover for Biden’s cognitive decline, left-wing media attempt to draw a false equivalence to Trump and his age.
Having successfully ousted President Joe Biden as the nominee via a textbook coup, Democrats have already turned their energy back toward taking down their Republican opponent, Donald Trump. And with Biden out of the race, the media and their left-wing allies have decided that age suddenly matters once again.
Corporate media were already dishonestly peddling the narrative that Trump’s age was just as much of a concern, if not more of one, than Biden’s. Just a few weeks ago, The Washington Post ran a piece on Trump’s birthday headlined “Donald Trump, potential future oldest president, turns 78.” It was a hard sell given that, should Trump win a second term, he would be 82 upon leaving office — the age Biden will turn this year.
But after Biden dropped out of the race with no explanation, the media began regurgitating the talking point at full throttle.
“Trump is now the oldest nominee that we’ve ever seen in U.S. presidential history,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said.
“[Kamala Harris is] running against the oldest nominee for president of the United States in American history,” Bakari Sellers said on CNN. “I mean, the man is nearly 80 years old, and so the question is, can he serve another four years? I’m not sure he can.”
Sellers also posted on X that Trump is the “oldest nominee in American political history,” which was then reposted by left-wing agitator Elie Mystal.
Axios blared that “Biden’s exit makes Trump the oldest nominee in U.S. history.”
Now that they don’t have to cover for Biden’s cognitive decline, left-wing media are making an obvious play to draw a false equivalence to Trump and his age.
But it’s dishonest to frame Biden’s problem as simply one of “age.” Rather, Americans have seen evidence of a serious and likely clinical decline in the president’s cognitive function, evidenced by the president’s repeated physical and verbal fumbles, his public displays of confusion, and the White House’s unwillingness to let him appear publicly without major guardrails. Biden’s age has surely been a contributing factor, but his cognitive decline is ultimately what horrifies American voters.
Before Biden and Trump, Ronald Reagan faced mounting opposition from Democrats over his age. Then-Rep. Tony Coelho, who also served as a surrogate for Walter Mondale, told reporters that “Reagan showed his age” and that “the age issue is in the campaign now.”
But Reagan managed to dispel any fears about his age when, during the second presidential debate, he was asked whether he had any doubt that he would be able to “function” in a crisis. Reagan assured the nation he could handle the job before turning his attention toward the age issue.
“I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience,” he said.
It was a well-received line and Reagan went on to sweep the electoral college.
I don’t think anyone has ever said, “Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden should not be President because he is too old.” There are far too many examples of politicians as old or older actually thinking and putting full sentences together to make such an argument. As the article says, it is age that has affected Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden acuity, but age is not the issue… his brain is.
On the other hand, even at 78, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden could not have taken a shot to the head and then being dog-piled by USSS agents and hopped up and done a fist pump. He would have been broken to pieces. Trump, on the other hand, not only rose and fist-pumped to the crowd, but had the wherewithal to make sure he didn’t do anything, or let the USSS do anything, that would be exploited by the opposition and used against him.
Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden has never been a mental firecracker. He has never been a physical dynamo. He was known as the “gaffe machine” because of his ongoing stupidity and using plagiarism in lieu of original thought.
Trump may drop dead tomorrow of a heart attack or brain aneurism. Who knows? By the same token, so might Kamala; Lord knows her medulla oblongata has been hammered mercilessly in her rise through the political ranks.