The New York Times’ careful, clinical piece about President Donald Trump showing “signs of weariness” and confronting “realities of growing older in office” was released a fortnight ago. Yet, the narrative still appears to occupy the president’s thoughts.
On Tuesday evening, Trump struck out at the Times once more in a 488-word post on Truth Social, composing, “Following all of the effort I have achieved with Physical Assessments, Mental Exams, and every other thing, I truly feel it’s seditious, possibly even betraying one’s country, for The New York Times, and others, to constantly produce FALSE accounts in order to slander and disparage ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’ They are genuine Adversaries of the Populace, and we ought to take action regarding that.”
“We realize that Putin and Xi have both encountered wellness struggles too, and we possess no insight into the specifics,” Applebaum remarked.
Trump’s physicians have been relatively candid, releasing numerous notes concerning the president’s physical checks, although some external medical specialists have voiced skepticism about the believability of certain claims.
As for Trump’s assertion that the news coverage is “perhaps even traitorous,” Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger addressed that back in 2019, the initial occasion Trump directed such an allegation at the newspaper.
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