by Steve Watson at Modernity
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered a brutal takedown of legacy media frauds Wednesday, calling out The New York Times for their shameless double standard on presidential fitness.
Fresh off a three-hour cabinet marathon with President Trump, Bessent faced down a Times hack at their own summit and laid bare the hypocrisy. The same outlet that buried Joe Biden’s dementia for years now peddles baseless panic about Trump’s vigor.
It’s the latest desperate ploy from a press corps still seething over their 2024 election wipeout, desperate to undermine a leader who’s delivering on all fronts.
BREAKING: In a mic drop moment, Sec. Scott Bessent just PUMMELED the NYT to their faces for a HUGE double standard on Donald Trump’s health
“WHERE was the New York Times? We just had a 3 hour cabinet meeting yesterday!”
“For 10 MONTHS Biden did not have a cabinet meeting.… pic.twitter.com/HyPWjPWFUF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 3, 2025
The fireworks erupted Tuesday at the NYT’s glitzy DealBook Summit, where Bessent squared off against financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin. Sorkin, parroting his paper’s latest hit piece “Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities Of Aging in Office”, tried to corner Bessent on Trump’s supposed “mental decline” and reduced visibility. Big mistake. Bessent didn’t flinch—he fact-checked the fraud live on stage.
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