CNN Platforms The Lie That Trump Is More Alert Than Joe Biden

CNN's State of the Union featured Stephen A. Smith, who claimed that Donald Trump is more alert than Joe Biden was, which is simply false.

Stephen A. Smith has made himself a very rich man who only has one skill. Smith is very good at generating attention for himself. In this way, he is just like Donald Trump. Smith is a fixture on ESPN who gets paid to deliver his half-baked hot takes.

Smith is an endless irritant to many sports fans. I am not an ESPN viewer, so my personal exposure to Smith has been limited to a few clips, but cable news saw the kind of reactions that Smith generates in sports, so they have moved him into politics.

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The ESPN personality has turned up on Fox News with regularity, and now, with CNN about to be owned by David Ellison, Smith turned up on CNN’s State Of The Union.

Smith was asked by guest host Kassie Hunt, “One thing that you had also said to the president is that he was sleeping. You said that he was sleeping at the game. And then I was watching what you had to say further after he posted on TRUTH Social about you, and you noted that he is 80 years old. Do you think that he is still sharp enough to hold the job that he has based on these events?”

Smith answered by claiming that the constantly sleeping Trump is more alert than Joe Biden was:

Well, I don't know anybody that would associate the word sharp with him, because he doesn't seem that sharp with some of the decisions that he makes sometimes, to be quite honest with you.

But I'm not here to denigrate or insult the president of the United States in that regard. He is certainly an upgrade from what we were seeing from Joe Biden in terms of his alertness and what have you. I certainly would say that. I would not accuse him of that. But I'm not going to insult the president.

The comparison to Biden is tiresome, because it is simply not true.