Should Joe Biden really be running for president again?

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and influential sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, has launched a savage personal attack onPresident Joe Biden after he signed a new nuclear cooperation deal with America’s ally South Korea.

The female Kim said that eighty-year old Biden was “in his dotage,” calling him an “old man with no future” who was unable to complete his term of office, and ridiculed his threat to destroy North Korea should it launch a nuclear strike against the US or its allies.

Beyond the war of words over nukes, however, the question that must be raised is: why does it take a leader of a brutal dictatorship to tell a truth about the president that most of the “free” Western media is reluctant to even mention?

For the sad fact about Biden is that he is, in the words of British historian Niall Ferguson “manifestly senile” and in no fit state to run — or rather shuffle — towards a second term in the White House, even though he has just announced that this is exactly what he is going to do.

Biden has suffered two brain aneurysms, and though his doctors regularly issue reassuring reports on his physical health, he has repeatedly refused to take or publish any tests of his cognitive ability.

Not that you would ever know the real state of Biden’s health if you relied on most of the US media. All the national TV networks apart from Fox, and the leading Democrat-backing liberal newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post steer resolutely clear from posing awkward questions or barely even reporting Biden’s many signs of mental confusion — attributing his myriad mistakes and misspeaks merely to the verbal “gaffes” for which he has long been notorious.

The silence of the media lambs over Biden’s fitness is nothing new. For America’s left-leaning press and broadcasters have a long history of covering up the health problems of Democrat incumbents who they want to keep in power.

More than a century ago, in 1919, Democratic president Woodrow Wilson suffered a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed on one side and mentally confused while he was in Europe to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles after World War One.

The press minimized the severity of Wilson’s condition, and hid the fact that the president’s second wife Edith was effectively running the government in cahoots with his personal physician.

Soon afterwards, in 1921, Wilson’s naval secretary, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was stricken by poliomyelitis, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. Again, the severity of Roosevelt’s condition was concealed from the public by a compliant and sympathetic media. Roosevelt was shown in public on his feet literally propped up by his wife Eleanor or his sons, and pictures of him using his wheelchair were banned from publication.

As a result, FDR was elected president an unprecedented four times, successfully surmounting the Great Depression and leading his country to victory in World War Two, before succumbing to a stroke in April 1945.

The next Democrat media darling in the White House was John F. Kennedy , whose youthful and charismatic appearance concealed a cocktail of debilitating injuries and illness once again hidden from the public by an adoring press corps and broadcast media.

Back injuries suffered during his heroic wartime naval career had left JFK with permanent disabilities that compelled him to wear a corset. In addition, he suffered from Addison’s disease, a glandular condition that left him dependent on mood-altering drugs.

The public remained blissfully unaware of their president’s fragile health — along with his frenzied sex addiction — until well after his assassination in 1963, thanks to the refusal of the US media to report the truth.

Today, such is the liberal media’s hatred of the Republicans in general, and of Donald Trump in particular, that they are keeping shtum about the wisdom of a mentally befogged man, who will be eighty-six if he completes his second term, having his trembling fingers near the nuclear button.

The Democratic establishment so fear the nightmare of Trump returning to the White House that they prefer to lie and pretend that their octogenarian leader is in rude good health, even though a clear majority even of them would rather see another outcome than the battle between the two aging gerontocrats that we are facing in 2024.

This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.