Posted on 12/20/2025 10:47:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
Byron York argues that some media outlets are attempting to portray President Donald Trump as facing the same major liabilities that plagued President Joe Biden: senility and damaging inflation.
On senility, York highlights a New York Times article titled “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office,” which notes that the 79-year-old Trump, the oldest person elected to the presidency, has fewer public events, a shorter schedule concentrated between noon and 5 p.m., and occasional signs of fatigue. The piece compares these observations to prior reporting on Biden’s cognitive decline, citing details like a bruise on Trump’s hand, speculation about weight-loss drugs, and reduced domestic travel despite increased foreign trips.
On inflation, York points out that under Trump, year-over-year inflation fell from 3% in January 2025 to 2.7% in November 2025, contrasting sharply with the rise from 1.4% in January 2021 to 9.1% in June 2022 under Biden. He contends that media critics equate the two by focusing on both presidents’ alleged downplaying of inflation, despite the vast difference in rates.
York cites CNN commentator Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who described Trump’s economic approach as “Biden 2.0,” calling him a “weakened leader” who is aging, angry, and losing vitality. York asserts that the Trump and Biden presidencies are markedly different and suggests this “Trump-is-Biden” narrative allows some media figures to revisit Biden’s problems while criticizing Trump. He notes it is a minor part of broader media resistance to Trump, compared to Epstein allegations or past Russia claims, and predicts more such comparisons ahead.
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This is their idea of an insult?
Comparing Donald Trump to Creepy Uncle Joe?
I admit he probably is slowing down, but to compare with Joe, who couldn’t find his way off the stage, slept through Big Seven conferences, and tried to shake hands with a flag, seems a bit of an I-have-an-agenda stretch.
Trump has held numerous open, multi-hour sessions with the press without pre-selection of the questioners nor prior access to their questions; I don’t think Senile Joe ever had one press conference where the questioners were not pre-selected and their questions rehearsed.
An I say again- the arsonists are complaining about the job the fire department is doing.
These media mouthpieces merely pitch out anything hoping that some with stick.
Shorter days than who? Bush, Obama and Biden all had very short days. Same with Reagan. I don’t know who had more work hours than Trump. You have to go back to Carter I think. Maybe they are just comparing Trump to Trump. Maybe 79 year old Trump is not as much in the office as 74 year old Trump. But now he is more practiced.
Let’s face the fact that our so-called Main Stream Media is the propaganda arm of the DNC/Deep State.
Did we watch the same debate?
The media has been grasping at straws to do damage to Trump from the day he announced he was running for president out of their fears he will get things right and they can’t protest the maniac democrat party.
The MSM is in just as bad of shape as the democrat party comrades in arms.
Just like the democrats’ discovery of religion and the Constitution, the Trump cognitive decline hoax will end with the next democrat in the WH.
She clearly had a revised definition of the word “answer.”
Biden was in perfect health! Joe Scaborough said so!................
El Rush-Bo used to point out that often the Drive-By Media drove the democRAT bus.
The democRATS and DemoKKKrats can lie all day. With inflation and gasoline prices decreasing, regular Americans are living in the Trump economy.
Many black men and Hispanics voted for President Trump. I believe part of that is the insanity of What is a Woman?
So they’re saying this version of Trump is the sharpest version they’ve seen? OK. I can go along with that.
It has been very apparent for quite some time that our Media is subversive and outright treasonous.
The fake news Muppets are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find anything to berate Trump. Late night alleged comic sock puppets are chiming in with the fake news muppets.
I have seen them using one photo of President Trump talking to someone. His eyes are closed and his lower lip is out. Isolated, it looks weird. However, if seen in context of a succession of frames, it is normal speech. If they had a sequence of frames with his eyes open and mouth either open or shut, he would look like a ventriloquist’s dummy.
Bull crap - Joe was DOA on his first day of his term
Trump does press for hours at a time
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