It’s become fairly obvious that for four years under Joe Biden, the United States was subjected to a puppet presidency in which its commander-in-chief was out to lunch on major policy initiatives enacted by unknown officials within his administration. And for four years, this unelected oligarchy was permitted to exercise its will with virtually no critical oversight from America’s legacy media, whose newfound interest in the subject is only now happening because some of their biggest hacks have a book to sell.
While these left-wing propagandists want Americans to believe their sudden coverage of Biden’s decline proves their credibility, it’s actually an indictment of it — especially when contrasting their years-long silence to how they fomented worries about Donald Trump’s health.
Throughout his first administration, the media relentlessly pushed conspiracy-laden articles and “questions” about Trump’s physical and mental fitness to serve as president.
In February 2017, Forbes ran an article by then-contributor Emily Willingham highlighting an online petition signed by tens of thousands of self-professed “mental health professionals.” Started by a former Johns Hopkins psychologist, the petition and its signatories — whom Willingham admits have “not been confirmed” to be actual “mental health professionals” — declared without evidence that Trump “manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States” and asked that “he be removed from office” under the 25th Amendment.
In January 2018, The New York Times published a piece in which authors Katie Rogers and Lawrence Altman effectively questioned what information the president “who fuels himself with a steady stream of Diet Cokes, scoops of vanilla ice cream and slabs of red meat” would release as part of his first presidential physical. The writers claimed that Trump “is selective about releasing information about his personal life” and later noted that “questions about Mr. Trump’s mental health have increased.”
“In the past, physicians examining presidents have mischaracterized or hidden illnesses to present them as healthier: President Franklin D. Roosevelt readily acknowledged his polio, for instance, but his White House doctor hid the severe high blood pressure that led to heart failure,” the authors wrote.
The media’s unhinged obsession with Trump’s health was front and center during a press briefing later that month with then-White House doctor and now-Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, on the results of the president’s exam. In question after question, regime hacktivists interrogated Jackson over Trump’s wellness in a way that was nowhere to be found during Biden’s presidency.
Media continued to try and stoke concerns about Trump’s health throughout the rest of his first term and even after he left office.
Meanwhile, outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times circled back on this strategy following Biden’s exit from the 2024 race. Since discussing the Delaware Democrat’s mental fitness was no longer considered a political liability, they suddenly found it OK to once again question Trump’s wellness.
The media willfully ignoring Biden’s decline and the consequences it wrought for the country resulted in a crisis that cannot be overstated. It’s the press’s job to oversee government and ensure accountability among its far too numerous actors.
For these “defenders of democracy” to turn the other cheek from the Potemkin Biden presidency staring them straight in their faces while tripping over themselves to dig into every detail of Trump’s health history is further proof that America doesn’t have a real press. It has a propaganda regime devoted to advancing the interests and power of the Democrat Party through any means necessary.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
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