Questions about Trump’s age, fitness become literal front-page news | After months of intense scrutiny of Joe Biden’s age and fitness, now it’s Donald Trump facing the same kinds of questions. It’s about time.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/questions-trumps-age-fitness-become-literal-front-page-news-rcna170412
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Long overdue.
Republicans running the oldest candidate ever, he seems lost and confused at all his rallies. It’s elder abuse.
What time is the debate
Really? All I see is media normalization of Trump’s blathering and behavior.
“Billions and billions of illegals” should be the latest in a series of institutionalizing statements of a dementia patient that is a harm to society and himself.
He shows signs of dementia.
We’re allowed to say it. He’s 78. His father was supposedly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 86 but showed signs long before.
And even if he was sharp as a tack (he’s not) his policies are SHIT.
All I know is that Harris had better be prepared for Trump lobbing lie bombs all night long. He’ll use the old ones, and a host of new ones. She’ll have to do more than play defense against them.
Should’ve been happening simultaneously with Biden but the media didn’t care one fucking bit about Trump. Even now I’m convinced it’s way too late to make a difference. They already let the horses out of the stable on this one, closing the doors now isn’t going to change anything.
This would comical if it wasn’t such a long time coming. DonOld has been given a pass from mainstream media, while ignorimg Harris at the same time..
The fact is that if you saw a random person who was not Donald Trump who was almost 80 and says the sort of things he does and acts the way he does, you probably wouldn’t let him buy a car or get a credit card.
You certainly wouldn’t give him nuclear launch codes and control over the strongest military in the world.
He absolutely should face scrutiny regarding his age and health concerns. Biden got all kinds of criticism for those same reasons and yet Trump, who is similar in age doesn’t get the same treatment from news networks. Even taking into account that he’s showing signs of dementia
“It’s about damn time.”
– LeBron James 2012
It’s all bullshit. Joe and Former Gut are only 3 years apart. Rs only care that the other guy was old, there was no discussion of policy. Former Gut still isn’t discussing policy, it’s culture wars bullshit.
He faced one critical article by the NYT. Now we see if they keep posting them every day or every other day for weeks on end like they did for Joe.
He’s so fucking old.
Is it though? Right now the headline is that the honeymoon is over for Kamala.
lol – we all know that the newspapers are all about stopping her momentum, so they aren’t going to be focused on Trump or his mental problems. It’s always about how to tear down the Democrats.
No no he’s doing “the weave” remember. It’s breath taking.
Trump is not doing well and that could so easily lead to a Vance presidency if he wins. Why isn’t this talked about more?!
Says the news source that has the control over what’s front page news.
Yes, we should be talking about it, but a news source talking about themselves in the 3rd person is kinda weird.
Maybe the media double-standard is finally giving way on this.
IMO, simply because someone is over 70 or 80 years old does not necessarily mean they are operating with a diminished mental capacity. My grandmother lived to 86. She remained mentally sharp until a stroke about 2 years before her death. Even after that stroke, she was still operating at a high mental capacity, just with a diminished physical capacity. It’s different for different people.
Trump has been inept and showing it for a number of years. His potential dementia symptoms and mental decline have been clearly accelerating for the past 8 years in public.
Biden is clearly less nimble now than he was 4 years ago. The Presidency takes its toll on healthy people. I can only imagine that it impacted him at his age. I can’t say with certainty if he could do another 4 years. I can say it was a reasonable question to ask if he should run again. It was far less reasonable to scrutinize him for it than about Trump though.
More than “about time”. I’ve eaten alphabet soup that’s formed more coherent words than that orange orangutan.
And people on this sub will continue to whine about “the media” because any negative xoverage of the democratic party makes an outlet right wing in their eyes
Trump shits his pants on stage at debate
Op ed in the NYT: “once again Trump manages to show strength. He didn’t debate, he just acted. He expresses himself in a way that is uniquely Trump and his base loves his authenticity. Some accuse Trump of shitting his pants, but who are we to say whose pants were shit? Can Kamala keep up her lead against Trump? After last nights debate it’s anyone’s race.”
So MSNBC and an article in politico? Great.
Does he remember how he was going to save the coal industry?
It’s way past time his butt gets locked up & the key thrown away
The front page news from the New York Times was Harris losing ground in the polls after honeymoon period
For weeks after Biden’s bad debate they have been constantly talking about Biden’s mental decline. But obviously giving Trump a free pass.
“Sane washing”. That is what it’s called. Trying desperately to make sense of what Trump is saying. Sometimes even not quoting ad vertabim because you know it is too long…the sentences just go on and on. We just modify it for you so that you understand.
Come on. No double standard. Not one for Biden. Another one for Trump.
I wonder if he’s suffering from long covid.
>…about time…
Eight years too late says I