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Debate Night Health Fears
Former first lady Jill Biden said she was "frightened" after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June 2024 and revealed that his campaign team was so concerned that doctors examined him after he came off stage.
In an interview with CBS News, Jill Biden described watching the debate and thinking, “Oh my God, he’s having a stroke,” as she recounted the moment in her upcoming memoir, View from the East Wing.
NPR reported that Jill Biden told All Things Considered host Scott Detrow that after the debate, “we met up in the car, and then the doctors, you know, checked him out and said, 'Oh, he's fine.'”
NPR also said Jill Biden called the cause of the performance “inexplicable” and told Detrow, “I mean, I don't know what happened.”
Medical Checkups and Scrutiny
A BBC analysis framed U.S. presidential checkups as both health reporting and political messaging, noting that “All modern U.S. presidents have walked the short distance from the White House to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.”
The BBC said the White House released a statement from Trump’s physician after Trump’s annual exam, saying he was “in excellent health” and fully fit to perform the duties of commander in chief and head of state.
El Debate reported that Trump said his medical checkup went “perfectly” after completing a six-month medical checkup, and it said the studies were conducted at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington.
The same El Debate account said Trump will turn 80 on June 14 and that the White House typically publishes a summary of physical exams within hours or days, while “the details are entirely at its discretion.”
Calls, Controversy, and Consequences
In France’s TF1 Info, Democratic lawmakers and some conservative figures raised concerns about Donald Trump’s mental health and discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, with the article saying “more than 70 Democratic lawmakers are calling to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
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TF1 Info quoted Arizona Democrat Yassamin Ansari saying the president was “a threat to the national security of our country and the rest of the world,” and it said Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy added, “No sane president would publicly promise to eradicate an entire civilization.”
TF1 Info also said Trump brushed aside the mental-health criticism when asked by the press, stating, “I haven't heard that, but if that's the case, there need to be more people like me.”
The article described the 25th Amendment process as requiring the vice president, in this case J.D. Vance, to declare the Republican leader unfit with support of at least the majority of cabinet members, and it said the procedure “has never been used.”
