“The White House press corps would be in wolf pack mode if Biden were in the middle of a speech and suddenly veered into gibberish about boats and sharks. There would be front-page stories questioning whether the president, at 81, was suffering from dementia; and the op-ed pages would be filled with thumb-suckers about whether Vice President Harris and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment."
~ Eugene Robinson
#Trump #dementia #Biden #media #MediaFail
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/trump-sharks-electrocuted-boat-story/
@wdlindsy Pardon my French, but #VonShitzinPantz has uttered that shark and boat gibberish before, why the fuck does the press only react to his free flow of bullahit NOW?
@Thorsten_Guenther Yes, he has riffed on that theme previously, and the riff was reported on by at least some media outlets. I suspect he got more attention now because this current riff was light-years crazier than the previous iterations, and it was performed to a crowd in a desert miles and miles away from any sea or sharks.