Questions about Biden’s fitness were brushed aside until he had an unprecedented meltdown during a live debate. Also, Trump’s health was a major news story just last month, when he was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. This also came up again this week when people spotted badly applied makeup to his hand. Also, it was a minor news story when Trump fell asleep during Pope Francis’ funeral. And his meeting with the Saudis. And his press conference wirh Dr. Oz. And his trial last year.
Also, here are 10 articles, ranging from 2023 to two weeks ago, about Trump’s cognitive decline, including op eds from CNN and the Boston Globe questioning his fitness and an article from the Atlantic about why questioning his cognition isn’t as effective as it should be:
CNN-11/13/2023: Trump’s mental gaffes can’t be ignored
The Atlantic-2/16/2024:Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land
The LA Times-9/25/2024: Trump’s rhetorical walkabouts: A sign of ‘genius’ or cognitive decline?
NBC-10/15/2024: Trump’s bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity
The Hill-5/7/2025: Is Trump losing his mind à la Biden?
Boston Globe-5/17/2025: Biden is no longer President. Let’s talk about Trump’s mental acuity.
Rolling Stone-5/25/2025: Jasmine Crockett: ‘It’s Time for Republicans to Question Trump’s Mental Acuity’
Penn Live-6/2/2025: Donald Trump accused of ‘crazy cognitive decline’ after fumbling ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ press conference
The Economic Times-6/24/2025: ‘Constant lapses and verbal aphasias’: Republican advisor drops a bomb on Donald Trump’s mental health
Salon-8/13/2025: Trump’s Soviet slip revives concerns about his mental acuity
How dare you give sources when they wanna circlejerk about their favorite out of touch boomer!
I’m just so sick of this bullshit narrative. The media ignored Biden’s decline until it was undeniable, and Democrats act like a few journalists doing postmortem well after the election is a huge betrayal. Meanwhile, Trump’s aging is getting far more coverage than Biden’s got, but liberals are pretending there’s a conspiracy to ignore it because the cabinet hasn’t invoked the 25th amendment. It’s infuriating.
I think it feels this way because - while articles are one thing - social media “atmosphere” was very different. I couldn’t go two posts without someone calling for Biden’s resignation, and it was all over the place, whereas with Trump it’s… Like, yeah, a couple of more prominent Democrats do that, but not really, and otherwise it seems like everyone just goes “such is life now”.
Criticizing their favorite politician means they’re un-American, and must be purged to ensure the security of party unity.
Democrats are just becoming more like Republicans every day. Next time a comedian calls out Newsom, they’ll say they need to be deported back to Russia.
I literally read and article this morning about makeup on Trump’s had to hide bruises.
Also, the right does not care how old he is as long has he slashed “entitlement” programs and deports brown people. The left only cares if the news is that he is actively dying because they know the right does not care.
The post seems to be saying they aren’t calling for him to resign or be impeached for being in declining health. Otherwise yeah I agree with what you are saying
They only care about your physical health when you oppose them.
It’s almost like conservatives control the vast majority of media conglomerates and subsequently control the types of content that their outlets put out.
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I heartily chortle anytime someone tells me that.
This is what frustrates me about all the Ground News ad reads I see on youtube channels that I otherwise respect (Legal Eagle, and Some More News for example). Despite the claims about ‘left’ or ‘right’ media, they’re still all corporate owned media, and will only serve corporate interests.
Impossible! I saw a Democrat on CNN once, they’re taking over!
The people in control of the media switch side back and forth as it suit them and they never lose because red and blue are the same shit.
No, it’s almost like “the left” in the US (such as it is) is tacitly allowing it at best and complicit at worst.
I love that so many on the American left are still enthusiasticly defending the candidacy of an elderly man in rapid mental decline, who at the end of his (then) current term was set to be the oldest ever president, older than the four (4) (!!!) people that most recently held the office before him, out of which three served two consecutive terms, their combined terms totalling 28 years. At the time of the 2024 election, there were five living ex presidents in the US.
Nobody should have to explain how batshit fucking insane that is.
The hole the US is in wasn’t dug by people who weren’t motivated to vote for Biden or his unpopular ad hoc replacement. By the 2024 election it was plenty deep already, more than a decade in the making. Ceding ground in the vote might have been foolish, but would ultimately not have changed the trajectory. The sooner you realize things were already broken, maybe you can get to work fixing it.
This post isn’t even defending Biden. It’s just pointing out the hypocrisy.
The message is the same whether you think Biden was high-functioning or senile.
Who’s hypocrisy then? Do you mean that it’s – completely pointlessly – pointing out Trump voters’ hypocrisy? Sure reads like an argument aimed at other than Trumpists that were critical of Biden’s candidacy, though.
Democrats are not the left
Fair enough, by “left” I really mean anyone not subscribed to the Qanon death cult in charge.
I don’t disagree on your last point, but age is a factor that I don’t think matters as much as you imply at first. In the sense that different people are affected in different ways. A good president or politician won’t be defined by their age. You know who is older than Biden? Sanders, and he might be one of the most lucid and seemingly good politicians all around (but I’m not in the USA so my understanding is limited, at least what I have heard of him is extremely positive).
That’s not to say that I’d rather have younger people involved in important roles in politics, there’s too many that should be completely retired, and Biden is one of them. But age is not the main issue.
I think it’s complete nonsense that a president (or any person) will not be defined by being of an extremely high age. It’s not just about their health, though the risk that a very old person will be affected by diseases related to old age within a four year term obviously is high compared to the population in general.
Another particularly disturbing thing is that people that old are not accountable to death. They’re living on borrowed time and are not expected to live to see the long term consequences of their decisions. Biden was several year past the average life expectancy in the US when he left office (i.e. would have started his second term).
Age may not have been the main issue, but it – gerontocracy – for sure is an issue on its own. That there aren’t more prominent leaders that are younger and have strong popular support is surely more worrisome though.
Because Biden wouldn’t threaten you with lawsuits if you said mean things about him.
It’s cowardly, but it’s also rational. Nobody’s opinion is going to be changed by something like that. And doing it would just result in Trump retaliating against them. Lawsuits are only one tiny portion of what they’d face. CBS arguably axed Colbert because Trump was using the FTC’s approval of their merger as leverage. The AP didn’t rename the Gulf of America and as a result they were barred from his press events.
Is it better to use the term “Gulf of America” if it means that you can still have reporters at his news conferences to ask tough questions? Probably. Is it better to avoid asking questions that are too tough if if means you get to go to the next news conference? Um… Is it better to not have op-eds that piss off Trump if it means that you can report on factual stories without too much interference? Err…
We’re in a new situation now. It used to be that the press had some power because it was the only way for the President to get a message to the people. Even things like the Fireside Chats that were carried unedited still required that the NBC radio stations carry the broadcast. If the president tried to prevent the press from doing their job, they could cut him off from getting a message to the people. Now the press no longer has that power, the president can talk to his supporters directly using his own media platform.
A news conference used to be something where there was a balance of power. The president had some leverage because the news stations wanted to be there to report the news. They wanted to be able to ask tough questions that would make viewers tune in, or readers buy the newspaper. The news had some leverage because if the major networks didn’t show up to a news conference, the things said at that news conference wouldn’t reach the people.
Now it’s completely one-sided. The press reporting the president’s statements is nice to have, but he can reach people through his own media platform(s) if he chooses to. So he no longer needs them, but they still need him.
if i had a nickel for every time conservatives propped up a dementia riddled alzheimers patient in order to cling to power despite not being popular i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s fuckin depressing it happened twice
That’s just if you’re talking about the presidency. Mitch McConnell still holds his office in the senate today, years after publicly freezing in confusion multiple times.
The revolution will not be televized.
Ah I see you also like the music that Rand Paul enjoys
All seriousness fuck Rand Paul and the Revolution will most certainly not be televised
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
KNOWS NOT WHAT IT MEANS
Gil Scott-Heron?
Trump rambling about medians during press conference. Seth meyers points out Trumps dementia all the time. https://youtube.com/shorts/pY06vb1Cxl0
That’s because this is a war on information. Has been since day one.
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LEFtIes pRoPaGaNaA 2025: but Hitler made a lot of good points, both sides had issues
Probably because it isn’t news. All of these things have been established for years.
Biden showing worsening signs was news, Trump has always been incoherent and unhealthy.
But reporting on the news is a bad thing, somehow.
Dementia Joe didn’t tell masked goons to abduct people in broad daylight
He did keep Trump’s concentration camps from the first term open though. Past performance is the best predictor of future performance. And if another Democrat like Biden or Harris wins in 2028, odds are they will keep ICE unchanged. The pattern of immigration policy for the last 20 years has been that the far-right Republican position of today becomes the mainstream Democrat position five years from now. Democrats repeatedly run towards the right on immigration, hoping to pander to the racist vote. It never works of course, but they never learn.
News control is like 101 …
Because billionaires want tax cuts and billionaires own most American media. Also, he sues everyone who criticizes him and he basically owns the courts.
Biden literally does have dementia though.
Is Biden in office?
He was at the time, yes
Not anymore, no.
So maybe people need to stop bringing it up?
Not to mention, it’s a shitty argument. What you’re saying when you bring this up is: “Your guy is as shitty as our guy!”
You brought up Biden first. You are the one “other guy”-ing. The concern is that the current president of the United States is obviously not of sound mind or body. Biden doesn’t matter anymore.
You brought up Biden first.
What? Biden is literally in the title.
The title was referring to the fact that when Biden was in office, people wouldn’t shut up about his condition. Now that we have a guy in even worse in the same office, people say nothing about it. This isn’t “my guy”-ism, it’s concern over the president of the united states.
Ok?
That doesn’t really have any bearing on what I said
A mention of Biden in the title is what you said, and it was directly addressed. Full bearing achieved.
I didn’t bring Biden up and he’s not “my guy”. I voted for him as the lesser evil and supported just about every progressive protest against him. Most of the problems he championed fixing were things he created earlier in his career. But no matter the accusation against Biden, Trump is far, far worse. Not “just as bad”.
lmfao wtf does that have to do with any goddamn thing in 2025
Exactly.
Why are people still pretending that wasn’t the case?
Trump definitely has dementia. He rambled about medians during his send troops to the capital press conference. https://youtube.com/shorts/pY06vb1Cxl0
Absolutely he does.
Makes you wish the Democrats had done the right thing and opted to not normalize it.
Both has it . Why you dneying one but not the other having it?
What?
