The media effort to Bidenize Trump |
THE MEDIA EFFORT TO BIDENIZE TRUMP. President Joe Biden’s two biggest liabilities were his senility and the damaging inflation his administration helped create. Now, some media commentators are trying to convince Americans that President Donald Trump has the same liabilities.
On the topic of senility, in recent weeks, the president’s adversaries have tried to argue that the 79-year-old Trump is suffering from the infirmities that were so obvious in Biden by the same age. Last month, the New York Times published a much-discussed article, “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office.” The article said, “Mr. Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency, and he is aging.”
Trump is clearly an immensely more energetic man than Biden was. But the New York Times suggested that it is just an image that Trump and the White House try to project. “Nearly a year into his second term,” reporters Katie Rogers and Dylan Freedman wrote, “Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to, according to a New York Times analysis of his schedule. Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule …........