In 1992, the watch check moment was framed in the cameras and cast by the media as a telling moment and used to make GHWB look cranky and disengaged from the public compared to a vibrant and charismatic Clinton. This watch check looks like Joe seeing if it’s time to take his pills while on a zoom call with his grandkids. It’s not going to have the same effect.
And the propaganda organs won’t make a big deal of it like they did for Republican Bush.
Sure it is, it makes him look like an old man who has to take his meds.