It’s no secret that the mainstream media has been biased towards the left for quite some time. And their recent attempt to make Biden’s health results about Trump is just another desperate move to defend the current administration. MSNBC’s Elise Jordan took it to a new level, insinuating that Trump could get “really bad dementia” like his father. But is this really about Trump’s health, or is it just another ploy to discredit the opposition?
On a recent episode of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski praised Joe Biden’s “clean bill of health” after his annual medical exam. The conversation then shifted to the health of Donald Trump and his White House doctor, Ronny Jackson. Jackson had previously said that Trump’s good health was due to his “genetics,” which John Heilemann defended.
But that’s when Elise Jordan jumped in, asking, “Didn’t Fred Trump [Donald’s father] have really bad dementia at the end, though?” It was a transparent attempt to suggest that Trump could be suffering from the same condition. This kind of rhetoric is not only unprofessional but also dangerous, as it further perpetuates the idea that Trump is not fit for office.
Instead of focusing on baseless claims and personal attacks, we need to look at the policies that will benefit all Americans. The left-leaning media seems to have forgotten that, as they continue to push their biased agenda.
It’s not just Elise Jordan’s comments that are the problem. Chris Licht, head of CNN, expressed his disappointment in Lemon’s remarks and found them “upsetting, unacceptable, and unfair to his co-hosts, and ultimately a huge distraction to the great work of this organization.” The media needs to take a step back and start reporting on facts, not personal opinions and biased speculations.
Transcript:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: President Biden received a clean bill of health yesterday, following a routine physical exam at Walter Reid national military medical center in Maryland. In a memo, Biden’s personal physician wrote that he, quote, remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency. The medical assessment noted that Biden had a small lesion removed from his chest during a dermatology consultation. It was sent off for a biopsy, and the results are still pending.
We tell you all of this so the we can, I don’t know, take a trip down memory lane.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, this will be fun.
MIKA: Yeah! Why not, right? It’s always good.
SCARBOROUGH: Mm-hmm.
MIKA: Here’s Dr. Ronny Jackson after Donald Trump’s physical, if that’s what you want to call it, when he was president in 2018.
REPORTER: Explain how a guy who eat McDonald’s and all the Diet Cokes and never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he is in.
RONNY JACKSON: It’s called genetics. I don’t know.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, called genetics. He went on to say, John Heilemann, that Trump had such great genes, that if he didn’t eat badly, he’d live until he was 200 years of age.
MIKA: Did he mean “dad jeans?”
SCARBOROUGH: I guess, I guess the shock of it is that, that, actually, people in the Obama administration actually vouched for this guy for 15 minutes before he started doing this. But again, just, the lies started rolling off of his tongue. And I guess they’ve continued over the past couple years.
JOHN HEILEMANN: I mean, look, I would say, just to stand up for, for the good doctor here, on one point. I mean, you know, if you think about Trump’s diet over the course of his life, you think about Trump’s — the way he’s taken care of his body, if you can use those words, “taking care” and “his body” in the same sentence.
You think about the stress of the presidency, you think about his sleeping patterns, you think about all the things we know. I mean, the fact that the guy made it out of four years of the presidency alive is an amazing thing. Like, with that — if I had that diet, that lack of exercise and those sleeping habits, I’d be dead now, you know?
There is, there is something to the notion that he does have some kind of extraordinary genes. It is the case that the Trump men, historically, in his family, have, have lived to be, have lived to ripe old ages in general. So, I don’t want to give too much credit to Dr. Jackson. Obviously, you know, the dude is a whack job on a lot of levels, but there is something kind of amazing about Donald Trump, that he’s still out there. That he’s still erect. That he’s still upright. It’s like an incredible thing.
ELISE JORDAN: Didn’t Fred Trump have really bad dementia at the end, though?
MIKA: Uhh.
JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, both of his parents lived to be in their 90s.
HEILEMANN: Yes.
MIKA: Okay.