The Trump White House is apparently where self-awareness goes to die. After Candidate Trump attacked President Barack Obama relentlessly for golfing, President Trump has golfed more than Obama. After Candidate Trump ran the most bare-knuckle campaign in modern history, his family has complained about the “viciousness” of politics. After Trump attacked Hillary Clinton with gusto for using a private email server as secretary of state, numerous White House aides have used private email.
We can now add one more to the list.
At Thursday’s White House media briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders bid reporters adieu but then decided she wanted to address one more question: About Trump’s health. Toward the end of his speech Wednesday on recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, you see, Trump began slurring and mispronouncing his words.
But before she answered (she said Trump’s mouth was dry, again), Sanders had a bone to pick. “I know that there were a lot of questions on that,” she began, “frankly, ridiculous questions.”
Yes, because questioning someone’s health based upon anecdote is a really bad thing to do — except of course when you’re Trump and the person you’re talking about is Hillary Clinton.
The Trump campaign in 2016 made a concerted effort to raise questions and stoke insinuations about Clinton’s health using exactly this kind of evidence. At one point, it even ran an ad featuring video of Clinton stumbling at a 9/11 memorial and coughing repeatedly, as well as a photo of her getting assistance while walking up some stairs.
“Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world,” the narrator intoned as dark music played.
