It was the easiest thing in the world to predict: The media's moment of half-hearted contrition for “missing” President Joe Biden’s obvious physical and cognitive decline has given way already to a fixation on President Trump’s health.

The journalists have no choice, you see. They’re humbled now. Their renewed zeal for the truth compels them to correct for the reporting mistakes of the Biden era. Therefore, they must now be unrelentingly suspicious of Trump’s mental and physical health. They learned their lesson!

The mea culpas seem awfully hollow now — more like a thin cover for a public relations reset, clearing the way for media to be far more aggressive about Trump’s age and health than anything we saw during Biden’s term in office.

We don’t have to imagine a double standard. We just lived through four years of major media pretending as if it simply didn’t notice the dementia patient in the Oval Office.

The Daily Beast, which had been an eager and credulous supporter of the Biden White House’s “cheap fakes” nonsense last year, published a May 28 report titled, “Trump Shows Signs of ‘Cognitive Decline,’ Says Speech Expert.” The subhead adds, humorously, “As pressure mounts for an inquiry into Joe Biden’s mental decline, the president faces scrutiny over his health.” This is a neat trick, by the way — publishing an article questioning the president’s mental acuity while also pretending as if you’re not the one doing the “scrutiny.”

Elsewhere, the Associated Press published a story titled, “Trump proclaims himself ‘in good shape,’ but the results of his physical aren’t immediately released.” In

© The Hill