Biography Flash Jake Tapper Under Fire for Trump Age Coverage Double Standard While Defending CNN Press Freedom

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In the last few days Jake Tapper has been squarely in the thick of the Trump age and health debate while continuing his daily role as one of CNNs most prominent faces. On air he has been hosting The Lead with Jake Tapper in its usual late afternoon slot, steering coverage of the Trump White House, the health care fight in Congress, and the extraordinary spectacle of a sitting president weighing in on the corporate fate of CNNs parent company, Warner Bros Discovery, and CNN itself, a clash he framed as a direct challenge to a free press during a recent broadcast of The Lead on CNN.

At the same time his own role in the media narrative is under a fresh microscope. Dame Magazine just ran a sharply critical piece titled Hey Jake Tapper Have You Noticed Trump Is Old and Unwell which calls him out for what the writer portrays as a double standard on presidential aging, contrasting his aggressive scrutiny of Joe Bidens health with what they see as a softer approach to Donald Trumps obvious decline according to Dame Magazine. The article revisits his earlier interviews and his book on Bidens decline and argues that Tapper and the broader press are late in treating Trumps condition as a central story, a critique that could shape how future biographers assess his legacy as a watchdog or as part of the problem.

Tapper is also out defending his record. On Pod Save America he recently said he now covers Trumps age and health all the time in part because he believes journalists including himself did not ask enough questions about Bidens acuity while Biden was in office, as reported by Fox News Digital. In that same coverage Fox notes that Tapper plugged his book Original Sin about Bidens decline and the alleged cover up, and quotes him acknowledging that some criticism of his past coverage is fair and that he looks back at it with humility.

Taken together these developments show Jake Tapper simultaneously anchoring major daily political coverage, promoting and defending a controversial book, and becoming a character in the broader argument over media bias and presidential health a storyline with clear long term biographical weight.

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