{"id":48101,"date":"2026-04-12T00:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48101"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:48:02","slug":"media-made-bidens-mental-fitness-the-story-and-is-being-easier-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48101","title":{"rendered":"Media Made Biden&#8217;s Mental Fitness &#8216;The Story&#8217; and Is Being Easier on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d co-host Geoff Bennett argued that the media isn\u2019t applying the \u201csame scrutiny\u201d to President Donald Trump after it \u201cspent two years making President Biden\u2019s mental fitness, his acuity the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a discussion with The Atlantic Staff Writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart, Bennett said, \u201cJonathan, 61% of Americans, including 30% of Republicans, now say that President Trump has become erratic with age. That\u2019s according to a recent Reuters-Ipsos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/most-americans-say-trump-is-growing-erratic-with-age-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-02-24\/\">poll<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThe press corps \u2014 I guess we should hold up a mirror to ourselves. The press corps spent two years making President Biden\u2019s mental fitness, his acuity the story. Why isn\u2019t that same scrutiny now being applied to President Trump, broadly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow <\/em><em>Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2026\/04\/11\/pbss-bennett-media-made-bidens-mental-fitness-the-story-and-is-being-easier-on-trump\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d co-host Geoff Bennett argued that the media isn\u2019t applying the \u201csame scrutiny\u201d to President Donald Trump after it \u201cspent two years making&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}