A pattern emerges: after years of ignoring Joe Biden’s glaring mental decline, the elitist media want to manufacture an early cognitive decline narrative with regard to President Donald Trump. We earlier spotlighted CNN’s attempt: here’s ABC’s.
Watch as This Week rotating host Jon Karl (who, unlike his CNN counterparts, joins Martha Raddatz in sharing equal billing with the “star” moderator), breathlessly teases an exchange with former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, wherein she will proffer evidence of “Trump’s mental incapacity:”
“Coming up, the event this week that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told me is evidence of Trump’s quote ‘mental incapacity’” – tease from @JonKarl on @ThisWeekABC pic.twitter.com/U3ZOrbQcec
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) December 21, 2025
JON KARL: Coming up, the event this week that former speaker of the E Nancy Pelosi told me is evidence of, quote: “Trump’s mental incapacity.”
What could this irrefutable evidence of cognitive decline be? Upon what proof does Pelosi establish her diagnosis? It turns out that she bases this on Trump’s address on the economy:
The subsequent clip from @SpeakerPelosi, about Trump’s ‘mental incapacity,’ played by @JonKarl on @ThisWeekABC pic.twitter.com/kmyljCd1is
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) December 21, 2025
NANCY PELOSI: I didn't even think about his speech, but I did see some of it in the news afterward, and I think it was a demonstration of his mental incapacity.
KARL: What do you mean by that?
PELOSI: Well, it was a ridiculous speech. Of course, we were all offended because of what he said about Rob Reiner just a few- and Michelle just a few days before after the tragedy. Something's wrong there, and something's wrong with the people around him that they don't stop him from his ridiculousness.
KARL: Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the president's prime-time address and his response to the brutal murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Our roundtable on Trump’s strange week when we come back.
Ridiculousness is Pelosi’s bar for mental incapacity. Karl just sat there, like a bump on a log, as Pelosi went on about “ridiculousness.” These same people surrounded Joe Biden like a Roman phalanx and shielded him from similar scrutiny. Seldom did anyone ask Pelosi to weigh in on any of Biden’s disastrous public appearances. When they did, they were chastised and then redirected to whatever Pelosi wanted to put out into the broader conversation.
In fairness, Nonna Pelosi is showing a couple miles off of her fastball, but the Elitist Media don’t dare mention that. Instead of scrutiny, they gave her a 21-microphone salute as she announced that she and her stock market winnings were riding off into the sunset after this Congress.
Karl never did discuss Pelosi’s remarks with the assembled panel. It should be noted that a full interview of Pelosi did not air on This Week, nor is it available on ABC’s YouTube channel. One wonders whether there is also “ridiculousness” at play there. If it weren’t for double standards, there'd be none at all.
