Maggie Haberman Mocks Trump Medical Report In New Interview: ‘Read Like Trump Had Written It’
CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman roasted President Donald Trump’s most recent medical report when she was asked about his age and cognitive health in a new interview.
Haberman is the author of the controversial but much-buzzed-about book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America — whose publisher dropped a new paperback edition this week with an updated afterword by the scribe.
The widely-recognized “Trump Whisperer” is also the subject of a new Vanity Fair interview conducted by Natalie Korach, during which Haberman called concerns about Trump’s fitness “incredibly valid”:
Given the continued discourse since the election over Biden’s age and cognitive health post-election, what do we know about Trump in that capacity, and is he transparent enough?
Look, it’s a fair question. The Biden White House was very antagonistic to The New York Times for daring to raise questions about his age, so I’ll leave that there. But through the magic of sight, it was pretty apparent that he was not in the shape that he had been in 10 years earlier, let alone 5.
Trump has never been forthcoming about his health. There’s a long history of questions about presidents and health. This is not just applicable to Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but they are the two oldest presidents that the country has had. So that becomes a different thing. Biden had an aneurysm decades earlier, and President Trump, the most recent doctor’s note included stuff that read like Trump had written it.
When Trump had COVID in October of 2020, he was quite sick, and they were not honest about that. I reported in Confidence Man in the hardcover version that some of the officials in the administration believed if he had not been given the Regeneron monoclonal antibodies as a treatment, that he could have died. That’s scary, how perilous that moment was, and how little real-time information the public had. Trump does not like talking about health, does not like sickness, views sickness as weakness, views hospitals as weakness. So we’ll see what happens, but concerns about two historically old presidents are incredibly valid.
The paperback for Confidence Man dropped Tuesday.
