Philip Bump: Person focuses every woman and man in America on his mental abilities via camera, TV

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Washington Post

By now, we’re all sufficiently familiar with Trump to track what’s happening here. He bragged about how well he did at something, because this is what he does — but when challenged on that boasting, he couldn’t resist doubling down. And so here we are, with Trump spending an extended period of time repeating five words in a television interview by way of proving how mentally sharp he is.

As for his campaign’s goal of getting people talking about Biden? It’s not working as intended.

A review of discussion on cable news shows that while Fox News and Fox Business spent more time talking about Biden in the context of mental acuity or decline, CNN and MSNBC spent more time focused on Trump. It’s not the case that the coverage posited that Trump or Biden was necessarily suffering a decline. It is the case, though, that Trump was spurring a lot of conversation that probably wasn’t what was intended.

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Even on Fox itself, there have been seven days this month when Trump was more of a topic of conversation in the context of mental capacity and capabilities than Biden.