Better late than never
If you’ve been paying attention for the past nine months, you already intuitively knew Donald Trump’s Walter Reed visit involved some kind of health emergency that left him with lasting cognitive impairment. In his public appearances after his hospital run, he immediately came off as mentally worse for wear, and in his subsequent public appearances it’s clear that he never recovered.
Yet this huge scandalous story – that the sitting President of the United States had some kind of stroke-like event and has been struggling to function ever since – was largely ignored by the mainstream media for nine months. It took a Trump insider leaking vague details about the Walter Reed incident to a book author, and then Trump idiotically blurting out on Twitter that he hadn’t had a “series of mini-strokes,” to finally push this story into the media spotlight, and thus the national conversation.
This should have been a major national story back in November. When Trump told such an obvious lie about the reason for his hospital visit, and then he began having cognitive problems in public appearances, the media should have seen it as fair game to report on the fact that Trump was clearly covering up a health issue that had damaged his cognitive abilities. This should have been a major headline story before a vaguely senile Trump completely botched a pandemic for nonsensical reasons and got 180,000 Americans killed.
But hey, better late than never. Thank you, Donald Trump, for stupidly giving the media enough confidence to finally begin reporting on your severe cognitive decline. With just two months to go until the election, we’re now finally in a position to convince the voters in the middle that Trump really is as far gone as we’ve long said he is. We’re in it now. Let’s get to work.
