New York Times’ Maggie Haberman sat down for a segment on CNN’s New Day to discuss the ever-growing questions surrounding the state of Donald Trump’s health and discuss the mental toll that coverage of his inability to walk down a ramp or raise his arm high enough to take a drink and — questions regarding whether or not he’s hiding a serious illness — is likely taking on the president.
CNN medical expert Sanjay Gupta shied away from giving Trump any sort of official diagnosis via TV. However, Haberman was asked to give her thoughts on the political implications that Donald is suffering as a result of such coverage.
“Perhaps no one more sensitive to how his health and stamina is portrayed in public than the president himself and you saw that in his tweet explaining this over the weekend, trying to explain that slow walk down the ramp,” Alisyn Camerota, co-host of New Day began, before going on to ask, “What is the president’s level of concern, given that he has not been shy about attacking his political opponents as somehow not being up to the job?”
“Look, this is never coverage the president wants of anything related to his health,” Haberman responded. “As you know he invited it by responding to the videos [on Twitter]. It wasn’t just the video of him on a ramp; there was another video of him having trouble lifting a water glass to his mouth, where he had to use his left hand to basically finish helping his right arm guide it to his mouth at a speech at West Point — he never likes coverage like this.”
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“As I said, he invited it by tweeting about it,” the Times reporter continued. “I think Sanjay is right. We don’t know what the issue is, we don’t know from looking at this video. We know the president has had issues with stairs before, but as Sanjay also says, there are a lot of questions around the president’s physical fitness, because he has dictated a note to a doctor in 2016, because he had this still unexplained — other than saying he wanted to get a jump on his physical — abrupt visit to Walter Reed [Hospital] last year.”
“Look, it is perfectly legitimate for them to raise questions about Joe Biden’s health. He’s 77 years old. But it’s also legitimate to ask about this president’s,” Haberman concluded.
At this point, it’s undeniably clear that Donald Trump’s got something going on that he’s not telling us about. When you attempt to hide something that’s so clearly there… What does he expect?
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