CNN, MSNBC erupted over Trump’s ramp walk — but virtually ignore Biden’s staircase stumble

After sounding the alarm over President Trump‘s use of a ramp on the U.S. Military Academy in the course of the 2020 presidential election, each CNN and MSNBC on Friday virtually ignored President Biden‘s intense fall whereas climbing the steps onto Air Force One. 

Biden fell three separate times whereas boarding the presidential airplane for a visit to Atlanta. The White House later issued a press release saying he was tremendous and suggesting that the “wind” at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland was guilty for the ordeal. 

According to Grabien transcripts, CNN spent simply 15 seconds on how Biden “struggled to find his footing” on the “windy” morning and the way he “left the plane with ease” upon his arrival in Atlanta. 

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That pales compared to the whopping 22 minutes and 13 seconds CNN devoted to the ramp Trump used whereas talking at West Point’s graduation ceremony in June 2020, fueling hypothesis of a well being decline, according to a study from NewsBusters. 

While MSNBC spent roughly a minute on Biden’s incident, the liberal community was way more sympathetic to the Democrat than to Trump. 

“Meet The Press” anchor Chuck Todd requested NBC News correspondent Monica Alba if Biden was doing “OK.” Alba responded by calling the autumn a “human moment that happened to a human who happens to be, of course, the president of the United States.”

“We’ve all run up stairs and had that moment ourselves,” Todd mentioned. “And if you haven’t, you aren’t a human being.”

“We’ve all run up stairs and had that moment ourselves. And if you haven’t, you aren’t a human being.”

— Chuck Todd, NBC News

REPORTERS SPECULATE ABOUT TRUMP’S HEALTH AFTER HIS SLOW WALK DOWN RAMP AT WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT

MSNBC’s 28 minutes and 42 seconds bashing Trump’s ramp utilization — as tallied by NewsBusters — was method much less charitable, with quite a few hosts and company additionally speculating the Republican’s health to serve.  

Critics on Twitter additionally identified the jarring variations within the protection from The New York Times and The Washington Post. 

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The Times ran “Trump’s Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions” for its headline in 2020 but on Friday went with “Biden is ‘doing 100 percent fine’ after tripping while boarding Air Force One.”

The Post, in the meantime, ran with “Trump tries to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at West Point” final yr whereas merely going with Friday’s headline, “Biden stumbles climbing stairs on Air Force One.”