Trump Is Furious Over ‘Bullshit’ Media Coverage About His Age, Mental Decline
‘He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe,’ a Trump adviser tells Zeteo.
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In recent weeks, Donald Trump has repeatedly fumed about how the mainstream press is – according to one Trump adviser who discussed the matter with him – back on “this bullshit again” about the elderly president’s health, visibly declining energy, and questionable mental acuity.
Sources close to Trump in and out of the administration tell Zeteo that media coverage of his health, age, and brain consistently infuriates the president in ways most other issues – save for the Jeffrey Epstein scandal – simply do not nowadays. Trump will fixate on the offending news outlet or coverage for several days.
“He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe,” says another Trump adviser, referring to the president’s nickname for his successor-turned-predecessor, Joe Biden. “Especially if it’s coming from a reporter he already hates.”