During Joe Biden's four years in the Oval Office, Donald Trump and his supporters in right-wing media repeatedly attacked him for his age and claimed that "Sleepy Joe" was mentally unfit for the presidency. MAGA pundits, however, have been ignoring reports of President Trump falling asleep during meetings. And progressive radio host David Pakman is calling out right-wing media's blatant double standard.
During his Tuesday show, Pakman argued that Trump is showing "exactly" the type of problems that Republicans spent four years mocking and insulting Biden for.
Pakman, referencing Trump's Monday meeting with a 16-year-old lifeguard in the Oval Office, told listeners, "Donald Trump was photographed using a cheat sheet, the exact same type of cheat sheet that Joe Biden was using when they said it's proof that he's got dementia. And strangely, Donald Trump's card has not triggered the same diagnosis from Republicans."
Pakman attacked right-wing media as intellectually dishonest, highlighting the radical differences between their coverage of Biden and their coverage of Trump.
The 42-year-old Buenos Aires native told listeners, "This is exactly the type of thing that Republicans used to say Biden had dementia. The pictures would be circled in red. 'Biden needs pictures to know who he's with.' Fox News would be running it continuously, and right-wing influencers would be saying, 'Did Biden know where he was? Did Biden know who he was with?'"
Pakman acknowledged that a president's use of a "cheat sheet" is "just sort of like protocol," adding that "a card with names and pictures does not prove cognitive decline."
But the radio host argued that if a "cheat sheet" is problematic for Biden, it's problematic for Trump as well.
Pakman told listeners, "But if it did prove it about Joe Biden, according to these people, it must also prove it about Donald Trump. Right now, this gets to a bigger story, which is that during Biden's presidency, the right treated every glimpse of a note card as a medical emergency. They do not care about being two-faced. I actually think they get off on it. They love that they employ double standards. They say one thing about Biden if they think it will be beneficial to them, and then they just laugh when we go, 'Yeah, but Trump's doing the exact same thing.'"
Pakman continued, "These are the very same people who attacked (former President Barack) Obama for golfing when he was president. And now, when Trump golfs, they go, 'Oh, well, but Trump's doing so much, he's doing business on the golf course and all of this stuff.'"
