{"id":2517161,"date":"2025-12-03T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-called-out-for-obsessing-over-trumps-health-after-constantly-masking-bidens-mental-decline\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:02:19","slug":"new-york-times-called-out-for-obsessing-over-trumps-health-after-constantly-masking-bidens-mental-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-called-out-for-obsessing-over-trumps-health-after-constantly-masking-bidens-mental-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Called Out for Obsessing Over Trump&#8217;s Health After Constantly Masking Biden&#8217;s Mental Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-called-out-for-obsessing-over-trumps-health-after-constantly-masking-bidens-mental-decline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2517161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary:<\/p>\n<p>At the DealBook Summit hosted by The New York times, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sharply criticized the newspaper for what he called a double standard in it&#8217;s coverage of the physical and mental health of President Donald Trump versus former President Joe Biden.Bessent condemned a recent Times article that questioned Trump&#8217;s fitness for office as &#8220;fake&#8221; while highlighting the paper&#8217;s failure to honestly report on Biden&#8217;s evident decline. He recalled how the Times and other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >major media outlets downplayed<\/a> or dismissed signs of biden&#8217;s frailty for years, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-admits-challenges-with-ev-charging-amid-reliability-concerns\/\" title=\"Pete Buttigieg acknowledges EV charging hurdles amidst reliability worries.\">growing public awareness<\/a> and video evidence. Bessent&#8217;s remarks, made on a New York Times stage amid Times branding, challenged the paper&#8217;s claim as the nation&#8217;s &#8220;newspaper of record&#8221; and exposed media bias and cover-ups concerning presidential health.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a New York Times event, but this couldn&rsquo;t have been what the Times had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted the so-called national &ldquo;newspaper of record&rdquo; Wednesday for attacking President Donald Trump&rsquo;s physical fitness for office while reminding his audience of the paper&rsquo;s shameful covering for former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s all-too-evident frailties.<\/p>\n<p>And he did it with a New York Times banner hanging right behind him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls out the New York Times for blatant double standard regarding President Trump&rsquo;s health, reminding them how they ignored Joe Biden&rsquo;s mental collapse. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dF8x6zqrO7\">pic.twitter.com\/dF8x6zqrO7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Western Journal (@WesternJournalX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternJournalX\/status\/1996250615027278072?\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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Bessent told Sorkin, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/scott-bessent-scorches-fever-swamp-ny-times-at-newspapers-own-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I read this article, like, &lsquo;President Trump is slowing down. President Trump&rsquo;s mental capacity &ndash;&rsquo; It is a hundred percent fake. Like, he only called me twice at two in the morning last week instead of three times.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bessent was apparently referring to a hatchet job published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-age-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> on Friday with the headline: &ldquo;Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It was a &ldquo;report&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-karoline-leavitt-uses-new-york-times-reporters-past-work-crush-latest-fake-news-story-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that was blasted<\/a> by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who pointed out during a news briefing Monday that one of the authors on the piece published Friday was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/19\/us\/biden-air-force-one.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">behind a report<\/a> in the same newspaper that claimed in 2021 that &ldquo;Biden is &lsquo;doing 100 percent fine&rsquo; after tripping while boarding Air Force One.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s safe to say that many Americans don&rsquo;t remember Biden doing &ldquo;fine&rdquo; in 2021 &mdash; and even progressives started to notice in the years that followed as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-bidens-14-straight-seconds-brain-malfunction-worst-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental<\/a> and physical decline became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-biden-takes-nasty-fall-air-force-academy-graduation-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more pronounced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But The New York Times and the nation&rsquo;s other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-democrats-the-media-are-thirsty-to-have-back-in-politics\/\" title=\"3 Democrats The Media Are Thirsty To Have ... In Politics\">legacy news outlets<\/a> kept up the pretense that there was nothing wrong. The newspaper even went along last year when then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre branded the voluminous videos of Biden&rsquo;s weakness as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-one-biden-seems-lock-trying-hop-suv-media-will-call-cheap-fake-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simply &ldquo;cheap fakes.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-age-videos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times headline<\/a> from June 21, 2024: &ldquo;How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bessent&rsquo;s critique on Wednesday brought all that rushing back.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You had what was the greatest &mdash; one of the greatest scandals of all time,&rdquo; he told Sorkin. &ldquo;The coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden&rsquo;s diminished capacity, and the cover-up. Where was The New York Times?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When Sorkin tried to suggest that it was questions about the Biden coverage before that made questions about Trump&rsquo;s capacity legitimate now, Bessent brushed him off.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We just had a three-hour Cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew,&rdquo; Bessent said. &ldquo;For 10 months, the Biden administration did not have a Cabinet meeting &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hear from people in the Treasury Building that I see President Trump more in a day than my predecessor saw Joe Biden in half a year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For conservatives, the truth about Biden was self-evident going back to 2019 when he announced for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the country, the dawning came slowly that Biden belonged in a nice, quiet nursing home back in Delaware more than he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/joe-biden-wanders-around-crowd-looking-totally-lost-everyone-around-completely-ignores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">belonged in D.C.<\/a>, but dawn it did.<\/p>\n<p>It was only in the establishment media, very much including The New York Times, that gaslighting and propaganda persisted on a scale much more befitting a tin-pot Third-World dictatorship than the most powerful, most technologically advanced nation the globe has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday, on a New York Times stage, under a New York Times banner, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blew the whistle.<\/p>\n<p>And it couldn&rsquo;t have been what the Times wanted at all.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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