You don’t need me to tell you the press doesn’t cover presidents equally. But, boy, the anti-Republican media sure is on overdrive today. The media seems to think its job is to reshape reality, selling a carefully curated narrative to suit its political goals, rather than report things objectively.
During Joe Biden’s time in office, you could practically set your watch by the number of times the legacy media shrugged off his absences from the White House. There’s no way around it: by the end of his term, Biden had spent an astonishing portion of his presidency away from Washington, spending an unprecedented 40% of his tenure on vacation and out of the public eye. The White House described these getaways as “working visits,” and the media obediently played along. “Presidents never truly stop working,” the headlines insisted, offering the public endless reassurances that Biden, whether on a Delaware beach or at some wealthy supporter’s mansion, never let the weight of office slip from his shoulders.
It’s not as if Americans didn’t notice the ongoing crises—foreign and domestic—that often coincided with Biden’s leisurely respites, where he practically looked comatose on the beach in Delaware.
Sure, the United States was struggling with Bidenomics, and the world was in chaos because of his disastrous foreign policy, but the media saw nothing wrong with Biden taking all that time off. Instead of probing deeper as to why he was hiding, reporters parroted the official line that leadership required rest and that Biden was “working from home.” Never mind that “home” typically meant an exclusive, taxpayer-funded retreat, comfortable and closed off from the mess his administration was making for average Americans.
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Contrast this with how the media treated Donald Trump. Whenever Trump stepped out of Washington—regardless of whether he was conducting the business of the presidency at Mar-a-Lago or holding meetings at Bedminster—the press pounced.
Today, headlines accused him of traveling overseas to flee negative Epstein coverage. “Trump golfs in Scotland as Epstein questions persist,” Reuters reported Saturday in its headline. CNN similarly claimed “Trump flees Washington controversies for golf-heavy trip to Scotland,” in its headline.
The fact that Trump is meeting with European leaders on this trip seems to be beside the point. The media has twisted a working overseas visit into a cowardly “escape,” obsessing over every golf swing as if it were some kind of smoking gun. Meanwhile, Joe Biden spent the better part of his presidency reclining in a Delaware beach chair while inflation surged, foreign adversaries grew more aggressive, and his mental decline became impossible to ignore—and the media called it “rest.” That’s not journalism. That’s damage control.
This was never about how much time a president spends away from Washington. It’s about a media class that chose sides long ago, and now acts like palace guards for the Democratic establishment—treating their favorites like royalty while trying to tear down anyone who challenges the regime. The same outlets that gave Biden a pass for disappearing during crises are now manufacturing outrage because Trump dared to conduct foreign diplomacy with a 9-iron in his hand. It’s not just dishonest—it’s insulting.
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I’ll admit, after last year’s election—and the well-deserved backlash over how the press helped bury the truth about Biden’s obvious cognitive decline—I thought maybe the media would at least pretend to be objective again. I was wrong. They’re doubling down. And with another election looming, the American people would do well to remember: the watchdogs didn’t just fall asleep. They sold out their credibility and never looked back.
