Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where's everyone who questioned Biden's age and fitness?

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Rex Huppke
USA TODAY
Published 12:05 p.m. ET Sept. 9, 2024 | Updated 12:10 p.m. ET Sept. 9, 2024


To the pundits and the Republicans who relentlessly decried President Joe Biden’s age, “cognitive decline” and “mental acuity” right up to the day he stepped aside in the presidential race, allow me to unspool a recent quote from 78-year-old GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. He was responding to a question about “what specific piece of legislation” he would advance to make child care more affordable:

“It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that – because, look, child care is child care. It’s – couldn’t – you know, it’s something – you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly – and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care. That – it’s going to take care – we’re going to have – I – I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.”

That’s as much as I can quote here, but it went on and continued to make zero sense.

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Trump's bizarre rants get sanitized. Biden got no such special treatment.

If Biden, as the Democratic nominee, had gone on a rambling verbal tear like that, GOP lawmakers would be calling for him to be institutionalized and cable news panels would be discussing how the 25th Amendment works. But The New York Times' initial report on Trump’s babble said this: “In a jumbled answer, he said he would prioritize legislation on the issue but offered no specifics and insisted that his other economic policies, including tariffs, would ‘take care’ of child care.”

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News outlets are 'sanewashing' Trump's unhinged speeches

Many news organizations are sanitizing Trump’s crazier and crazier comments. Parker Molloy at The New Republic recently wrote: “This ‘sanewashing’ of Trump’s statements isn’t just poor journalism; it’s a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy. By continually reframing Trump’s incoherent and often dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, major news outlets are failing in their duty to inform the public and are instead providing cover for increasingly erratic behavior from a former ‒ and potentially future ‒ president.”

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/09/trump-old-incoherent-biden-age-mental-fitness/75138026007/

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1. Apparently they are too worried about kamala's accent

Or maybe her walk with "doug".

What does putting his name in quotes even mean?

[OnDoutside]

2. They need to be named and challenged as to the number

of Trump is too old columns they've done since Biden pulled out.

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3. On the oligarch payroll.