PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump’s address to the nation this week. GEOFF BENNETT, PBS NEWSHOUR: Well, let’s talk more about that, because Republicans spent years telling voters to trust their eyes when it came to former President Biden’s age and mental acuity. Are Democrats now justified in applying that same standard to President Trump? You referred to his bellicosity. There is certainly this growing disinhibition. You look at the TRUTH Social post after Rob Reiner passed away. You look at the way that he verbally abuses some women reporters. How do you see it? JONATHAN CAPEHART, MS NOW: I have said many times at this table, even with – to questions that had nothing to do with his mental acuity, what about his mental acuity? If any other president had said what he had said or done what he had done, they would have been hauled out on the carpet, people asking questions, where are the doctors? Let’s see his medical records. And yet he goes on and does things like this. What he said in that TRUTH Social post and then before cameras about the murder of Rob Reiner was a low that I didn’t even think he could reach. And yet he’s proven me wrong in trying to think that he has even – just even a scintilla of a moral core. We should be asking about the president’s mental acuity. We should be asking, because he’s 79 years old, is he up for the job? And you just listen to what he says, the policies that he’s pursuing, just tariffs, in particular, and no one seems to be bothered by it. But I will keep asking the question until more people start asking the question and we get answers from the White House.
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