‘Daily Show’ Exposes Fox News’ Double Standards After Trump’s Wobbly Moment

Fox News personalities did some serious pearl-clutching about Hillary Clinton’s health during her 2016 presidential campaign. But amid concerns over Donald Trump’s fitness for office, there’s been no such uproar on the conservative network.
“The Daily Show” put that double standard on full display in a video using Fox News footage and commentary from the time, but with footage of Trump’s recent garbage truck stumble spliced in.
“We need to see the records of anyone that’s around the age of 70,” Marc Siegel, a Fox News medical analyst, said in one of the clips, as the edit from “The Daily Show” shows Trump flailing while opening the door of a garbage truck earlier this week.
Fox News freaking out about Hillary’s health in 2016 but make the footage Trump pic.twitter.com/hGa7NGNxpy
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In August 2016, Fox News host Sean Hannity speculated on air with guests that Clinton, who was 68 at the time, might have brain damage. He noted that she had stumbled earlier in the year and questioned what he said were “weird pauses” in her speech.
Clinton ended up releasing her medical records in September 2016 after she had a health scare due to pneumonia.
This week, Hannity called Trump’s entry into the garbage truck an “iconic, epic moment.”
Trump, 78, has declined to share any detailed health records, despite mounting public concern about his cognitive state. He has given increasingly rambling and incoherent speeches and has behaved erratically on the campaign trail, prompting hundreds of health care professionals to sound the alarm about his condition and fitness for office.