On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele -- a former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project -- took the occasion of Kamala Harris's release of health records to mock Donald Trump.
Steele slammed Trump for not released medical records, saying he has doctors lie about his weight when he's fat like "Wally the Walrus." He added: "The man is old as dirt. He's the oldest man to ever run for president."
We certainly hope that Steele, who turns 66 one week from today, is not experiencing any short-term memory loss. He apparently forgot that Biden, who is three years older than Trump, announced his run for a second term back on April 25, 2023.
Just months ago, they sat around on Steele's show and envied Biden's mental fitness at his age!
Steele complained "the country doesn't seem to care that he doesn't release his health records, that we have no idea what's going on in that little brain of his. Maybe he had brain worms, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We don't know."
Steele asked Princeton prof Eddie Glaude Jr. how Trump gets away without releasing his medical records. Gaude's explanation: the press, Democrats, and mainstream Republicans have been "tiptoeing around Donald Trump for fear that he would activate the ugliness of his base, and endanger the country."
Democrats and the MSM have been "tiptoeing around Donald Trump?" Where has the good professor been since Trump came down that famous escalator nine years ago?
And speaking of logic, Steele also said:
"Kamala Harris is releasing her health records today. Every presidential candidate has, since presidential candidates have been releasing their records."
So candidates have been releasing their records since candidates have been releasing their records?
Pretty sure the great James Taranto would identify that as a tautology!
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
10/12/24
8:03 am EDTMICHAEL STEELE: Kamala Harris is releasing her health records today. Every presidential candidate has, since presidential candidates have been releasing their records.
Donald Trump has yet, in all the time that we have known of him and seen him, has refused to do so. He's had, you know, doctors sort of put together a piece of paper with a whole lot of BS on it about the man weighing 215 pounds, looking like Wally the Walrus.
But, okay, we'll set that aside. The New York Times, though, reports, "Iif he wins, Trump could enter the Oval Office with an array of potentially worrisome issues, medical experts say. Cardiac risk factors, possible aftereffects from the July assassination attempt and the cognitive decline that naturally comes with age, among other things."
The man is old as dirt. He's the oldest man to ever run for president. And yet, the country doesn't seem to care that he doesn't release his health records, that we have no idea what's going on in that little brain of his. Maybe he had brain worms, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We don't know.
How does he get away with this? And why is the country so accepting that Donald Trump can just say, you know, I'm not going to tell you about my health? But the press, and others seemingly, demand that everybody else put out theirs.
EDDIE GLAUDE JR.: First of all, it is such a wonderful time to be here on The Weekend, Michael, and to see you guys. But you don't require a professor to try to make clear or make plain what's going on.
Donald Trump has been given a pass in so many ways. He represents, not America, as such, but a large slice of America. And there's this sense that the spoiled man can do whatever he wants, because there's a fear that you will activate the anger of his base.
And it seems to me that we have been tiptoeing around Donald Trump. That is, not only the press, but also Democrats, and particularly mainstream Republicans, tiptoeing around Donald Trump for fear that he would activate the ugliness of his base and endanger the country.
And I think that particular approach has come back to bite us in the behind.
