The corporate press has suddenly gone into full-time bedside manner, obsessing over President Trump’s health while pretending their silence during the Biden years was just fine. After Trump told the Wall Street Journal he takes a higher dose of aspirin than doctors recommend, the same outlets that ignored clear problems with the previous administration treated the revelation like Watergate. This selective fury exposes what Americans already know: the media’s outrage meter is calibrated by partisan loyalty, not by truth.
Remember when reporters and anchors smoothed over or ignored repeated questions about Joe Biden’s fitness for office? That era of convenient amnesia is over, and the beneficiaries of it are now acting shocked when the tables are turned. News organizations that spent years downplaying or dismissing concerns about Biden’s cognitive and physical fitness are now pretending they discovered a crisis overnight. The public sees the double standard, and trust in the press keeps eroding.
The White House has been transparent about the basics: the October imaging was a preventative CT scan, the bruising has been explained as a side effect of long‑term aspirin use and frequent handshakes, and the physician who reviewed the scan found no cardiovascular abnormalities. President Trump has also publicly defended his energy and fitness, insisting his health is “perfect” even as reporters scramble to spin every photo. Voters deserve to hear facts, not fevered speculation designed to score political points.
Meanwhile, influential publications insist they won’t be deterred from publishing about Trump’s health, a posture that reads less like fearless journalism and more like selective retribution. That defensive posture from outlets like the New York Times only confirms that their goal is not evenhanded scrutiny but sustained pressure. Conservatives and independents alike should reject this performative moralizing and demand consistent standards no matter which party occupies the White House.
The administration has provided routine physicals and medical summaries showing Trump in strong condition for his age, and the release of detailed exam results should end the guessing games. If the press truly cared about Americans’ right to know, they would treat every president with equal skepticism and equal rigor — not weaponize health reports as political theater. Honest transparency wins trust; partisan theater destroys it.
At the end of the day, hardworking Americans know when they’re being played. They want their news to inform, not to indoctrinate, and they deserve media that values facts over faction. It’s time for journalists to stop acting like campaign operatives and start acting like guardians of truth — because the nation can’t afford a press that chooses sides when the stakes are this high.
