Jill Biden claims Joe would be ‘excoriated’ if he did what’s happening in current White House

Jill Biden went on "The View" to say the press would have torched Joe if he'd done what the current White House is doing. She didn't specify what, exactly, but let's not pretend we don't know the subtext. This is the same White House whose staff spent a year telling us Joe was sharp as ever, that the debate stumble was a cold, that anyone raising concerns about his capacity was spreading right-wing disinformation. The double standard she's worried about is real. It just runs in the opposite direction from where she's pointing.

Here's the thing about complaining about media treatment after you've lost the argument: it only works if people have forgotten how the argument went. We haven't. Reporters who asked basic questions about Biden's age and fitness got mocked, dismissed, or accused of doing Trump's work for him. Access got tightened. Press conferences got scarce. The people around Joe Biden, including his wife, spent considerable energy managing the story rather than answering for it.

So when Jill Biden says the current administration would get a pass her husband never would have, the honest response is: compared to what, exactly? Compared to the sit-down interviews Joe barely gave? Compared to the unscripted moments his staff worked overtime to avoid? If there's a legitimate case that today's coverage is soft in some specific way, make it with specifics. Vague grievance about "double standards" from someone who spent years inside a communications operation built to shield her husband doesn't land as principle. It lands as score-settling from someone still smoothing over the last four years.