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One: the number of Cabinet meetings former President Joe Biden held during his final year in office in 2024. The singular meeting featured “Dr.” Jill Biden, a non-Cabinet member sitting at the head of the table and kicking off the meeting. Totally normal.
Nine: the number of Cabinet meetings President Donald Trump has held since taking office in 2025. These meetings can last anywhere from one to three hours, as was the case in August, and are televised live to the public.
Zero: the number of press conferences Biden held in 2024.
One thousand five hundred twenty-two: the total minutes of questions Trump took from the press in the first 100 days of his second term alone. No day goes by without Trump taking questions from the Oval Office, outside the White House, or on Air Force One.
And after his first three Cabinet meetings, he took almost 100 questions afterward.
Zero: the number of vacations Trump took in August, traditionally a time when presidents take significant time off.
You can agree or disagree with his policies and approach, but anyone with eyesight and hearing can clearly see that Trump works as hard as anyone in the country. He is also the most accessible president to the press by Secretariat proportions, as outlined above.
Yet, here is the New York Times with a report that Trump is losing stamina and showing signs of aging: “Nearly a year into his second term, Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to, according to a New York Times analysis of his schedule,” it reads. “Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips.”
At last check, taking more foreign trips is the opposite of showing signs of aging and reduced stamina. It’s also notable that the New York Times never analyzed Biden’s schedule during his first year in office.
Instead, here’s how the New York Times covered Biden three years into his presidency. “He is trim and fit, exercises five days a week and does not drink,” the paper of record swooned, also adding he “exhibited striking stamina.”
“Mr. Biden manages his day with more discipline than his predecessor,” the report also reads. “Jill Biden, who teaches at Northern Virginia Community College, gets up around 6 a.m. while the president wakes an hour later, according to accounts he has given. Mr. Biden has told aides that their cat sometimes wakes him in the middle of the night by walking across his face.”
How cute.
Now compare that to the New York Times’s report this week on Trump.
“There is one thing Mr. Trump is doing more of in his second term: talking about the afterlife. He has brought up heaven — and the question of whether he would get in — half a dozen times since taking office for the second time.”
Memo to the Old Gray Lady: If you were nearly assassinated twice and remain the most targeted person on the planet, maybe thoughts about the afterlife begin to creep in.
Here’s one more from Biden’s 2023 profile. It’s amazing this actually made it to print.
“Some who accompany him overseas express astonishment at his ability to keep up. When Italy’s new leader pushed for a meeting while the president was in Poland, he readily agreed to add it to the already packed schedule. During a trip to Ireland, people with him said he was energized and wanted to talk at length on Air Force One rather than rest.”
Again, here’s the paper, relying solely on accounts from unnamed Biden aides, taking everything at face value and presenting it as fact.
In 2024, shortly before Biden’s disastrous debate against Trump at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the New York Times ran to Biden’s defense again, regurgitating the White House spin of Biden’s behavior, which included shaking hands with the air after speeches, not knowing how to exit a stage after 50 years as a politician, claiming to have conversations literally with dead world leaders, and forgetting the names of his own Cabinet members. They were hilariously referred to as “cheap fake videos.”
On June 21, 2024, six days before the debate, a headline read: How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts.
“There is the distorted, online version of himself, a product of often misleading videos that play into and reinforce voters’ longstanding concerns about his age and abilities,” the report with three bylines on it reads.
“In the last two weeks, conservative news outlets, the Republican National Committee and the Trump team have circulated videos of Mr. Biden that lacked important context and twisted mundane moments to paint him in an unflattering light.”
Exactly one horrible debate and one month later to the day, Biden announced he would not seek reelection after his own party and George Clooney convinced him to get out of the way. The New York Times report aged like milk left in a sauna.
Thankfully, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, reminded reporters and the country on Monday about the New York Times’s track record when it comes to reporting on the health of presidents.
“I will point out one fake news story over the weekend before I let you all go from the Times that took about one-third of the president’s daily calendar and his daily schedule and said that he’s doing less than he did in his first term, or he might not be fit for the job,” Leavitt said to end Monday’s press briefing.
“That is unequivocally false, and it’s deeply unfortunate that this story was written by the same outlet and the same reporter who wrote this, ‘Biden “is doing 100% fine” after tripping while boarding Air Force One,” she added.
Nope. It’s not a joke. And when you look at what Trump has done in his first 10 months in office, it’s impossible to think he’s slowing down: border essentially closed; violent criminals being deported on a daily basis; record stock market highs; more than 200 executive orders signed; energy independence; a gallon of gas at its lowest cost in four years, below $3; average inflation rate of just 2.7%, compared to more than 6% under Biden; tax cuts made permanent; no tax on tips starts in 2026; better trade deals; trillions in foreign investment into the country; destruction of Iran’s nuclear program; Gaza peace deal; American hostages around the world now home; and a culture shift that says it’s absolutely not OK for biological men to compete against women in sports.
If those are signs of aging and falling stamina, we’d all sign up for that.
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The New York Times and other outlets are attempting a do-over in making Trump’s age and health an issue while pretending they didn’t participate in the failed cover-up of Biden’s health and poor aging.
Just another day in American legacy media, where insulting our collective intelligence is a daily exercise.
