[Auracle]

Oh, come on. Are people still using the "stutter" excuse? Go look up a video of him from 2000 or whatever. His stutter sure did get worse!

The story of cognitive decline was pushed because it was true. That's why he basically did no press, and why he used a teleprompter during times no other president would: https://archive.is/C60uH

When he did speak without one, he regularly said stuff like "they don't want me to talk about that."

I don't disagree that they're both way too old. However, the Trump we have now seems to be basically the same Trump we had in 2016. He rambles about as much as he did then. He could quickly deteriorate though - we'll see.

[davidw]

And once the race was no longer between two old guys, age ceased to matter much to a number of news outfits.

If you look at old Trump interviews, from say 20 years ago, he has absolutely degraded, and not by a small amount.

[krapp]

>And once the race was no longer between two old guys, age ceased to matter much to a number of news outfits.

Age never mattered with regards to Trump, but it was a meme with Biden even when he was VP. In terms of press coverage and popular perception it was never a race between two old guys, it was a race between "the old guy" and Trump.

[davidw]

And the press did a lot to shape that perception despite both showing signs of decline. That's the point. The coverage was skewed.