President Biden fell three times while attempting to board Air Force One on Friday, evoking memories of the hyperventilating mainstream media about former President Donald Trump who was walking cautiously down a ramp last year.
Reporters and experts raised the alarm about Trump’s well-being by what they believed to be signs of declining health during his appearance at the West Point graduation ceremony in June, when Trump was seen cautiously walking down a ramp from the stage.
REPORTERS SPECULATE ABOUT THE TRUMP HEALTH AFTER THE SLOW WALK OF THE RAMP AT THE WEST STARTING POINT
A clip of Trump’s cautious walk, shared on Twitter by left-wing journalist Aaron Rapar, has garnered over 13.1 million views. The footage essentially dominated an entire news cycle and liberal analysts even used it as an impetus to question whether something was neurologically wrong with Trump.
It remains to be seen whether Biden’s triple fall, 78, will receive a fraction of the attention that Trump has received from walking cautiously.
“Honestly, no one would care much about an old man’s trip, but NYT, CNN and others did all the speculative coverage of Trump coming down a ramp, so here we are with the media having to eat their own hostile and corrosive coverage.” , journalist Mark Hemingway observed.
The New York Times ran the headline, “Trump’s stop down the ramp raises new health issues.”
“Mr. Trump – who turned 74 on Sunday, the oldest a US President in his first term – was registered as he hesitantly descended the ramp, one step at a time, after giving a speech to cadets graduating from the academy with New York headquarters on Saturday. The academy’s superintendent, Lieutenant General Darryl A. Williams, walked alongside him. Mr. Trump slightly accelerated to the final three stages when he reached the bottom, “wrote Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
“Serious question: what’s going on with him? His supporters have been trying very hard to get the media to question Joe Biden’s physical and mental fitness, but they tend to get involved in projections and it seems worth asking,” tweeted the presenter MSNBC Joy Reid at the time.
BIDEN STOPS SEVERAL TIMES, FALLS WHEN HE SCALES THE AIR FORCE A STAIRCASE
“The question of a president’s health is of great importance to the American public,” said Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire on MSNBC, noting that Trump regularly questioned Biden’s suitability for the post.
“It is absolutely more difficult to argue when we see a video like this in which the president himself is having momentary stumbles, momentary lapses, struggling to find a word or whatever,” continued Lemire.
CNN was particularly obsessed with Trump’s cautious gait, as CNN’s Alisyn Camerota said the president walking “very hesitantly” could be a cause for concern.
“Maybe he just has a hard time going down a gently sloping ramp,” she said before asking Dr. Sanjay Gupta: “But do you see anything, possibly neurological, that may be unbalancing your balance?”
Gupta replied that many neurologists were talking about the situation. Meanwhile, CNN’s Chris Cillizza said it was an important story because Trump was 74 at the time.
“We know so little about Donald Trump’s medical history,” said Cillizza as the graph on the liberal network’s screen said, “Trump’s unsteady walk, the raising of his arm raise health issues.”
CNN anchor John King said Trump looked “a little unstable” on the ramp. CNN political correspondent Abby Phillip considered whether Trump was being “transparent” about his health based on the “latest incidents”.
Biden even took action, mocking Trump in the campaign at a time that is likely to come back to haunt him.
“Watch how he steps and how I walk. Watch how I go up the ramps and he trips over the ramps. Come on,” said Biden.
Trump responded to speculation by noting that the ramp was slippery, but Haberman did not believe it. “There was no evidence that the ramp was slippery and the sky was clear during the ceremony,” tweeted the Times reporter.
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White House communications director Kate Bedingfield explained that Biden was not injured in the triple fall. Another spokesman said that this is due to the strong wind.
“I know that people saw that President Biden slipped on his way up the stairs to AF1, but I am happy to report that he is doing well and has not even demanded any attention from the medical staff traveling with him,” she said. . “Nothing more than a misstep on the stairs.”
Biden in December fractured his foot while chasing his dog.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Tyler Olson of Fox News contributed to this report.