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Forbes
3 days ago
- General
- Forbes
Trump: ‘Don't Feel So Sorry' For Biden Because Of Stage 4 Cancer
President Donald Trump on Friday said not to 'feel so sorry' for former President Joe Biden, who announced a cancer diagnosis earlier this month, and criticized Biden as 'vicious'—just over a week after Trump and other Republicans suggested Biden may have hidden his illness from the public. Biden, who was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, said his "prognosis is good." Trump, who spoke in the Oval Office on Friday, called Biden a 'somewhat vicious person,' adding, 'If you feel sorry for him, don't feel sorry for him, because he's vicious.' Trump did not clarify why he referred to Biden as vicious, though he did cite 'what [Biden] did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt' while arguing Biden had 'hurt a lot of people.' Biden, 82, revealed he had stage 4 prostate cancer earlier this month and told reporters Friday his prognosis is 'good,' and 'the expectation is we're going to be able to beat this.' '[Biden's] been a sort of moderate person over his lifetime,' Trump said. 'Not a smart person, but a somewhat vicious person, I will say. If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious. What he did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt—he hurt a lot of people, Biden, so I really don't feel sorry for him.' This is a developing story.
Fox News
7 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
GOP lawmaker blasts 'dumb' Trump comment on Zelenskyy despite 'perfect' criticism of Putin
A House Republican sharply criticized comments President Donald Trump made regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, flatly calling some of them "dumb." In a Truth Social post, Trump first called out Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the foreign leader "has gone absolutely CRAZY!" and is "needlessly killing" — but then the president pivoted to slam Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, declaring, "Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don't like it, and it better stop." In a statement to Fox News, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., opined, "The first half of this message is perfect, the rest is dumb. Trump is attacking President Zelensky while Putin bombs Ukrainian cities and it is misguided. Moral ambiguity while one nation invades another is hurting Trump's credibility. Putin is making a mockery of Trump, and Trump keeps attacking Zelensky." Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response by publication time. Bacon, an outspoken supporter of Ukraine, has asserted that the U.S. and "Allies must arm Ukraine to the teeth," slap Russia with maximum sanctions and seize Russian assets. "It is a time for honesty. Peace talks are having zero effect on Putin. His goal is to dominate Ukraine & he won't stop until he realizes he cannot win. The U.S. & Allies must arm Ukraine to the teeth, sanction Russia to the max, & confiscate the $300B in overseas Russian assets," Bacon posted Sunday morning. Zelenskyy discussed Russian attacks in a Monday post on X. "Our air defense forces and rescuers were working all night. The Russian army launched the largest number of drones against our cities and communities since the beginning of the full-scale war — 355 attack UAVs, mostly 'Shaheds.' There were also 9 cruise missiles. Sadly, there are injured people and damage to civilian infrastructure," Zelenskyy noted in the Monday post. "Like any criminal, Russia can only be constrained by force. Only through strength — the strength of the United States, of Europe, of all nations that value life — can these attacks be stopped and real peace achieved," he declared.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Trump wants answers on Biden's cancer diagnosis
By Published: | Updated: President Donald Trump hinted that he wanted to see President Joe Biden 's medical doctor be investigated after the former president's shock cancer diagnosis. In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump was asked to react to Biden's diagnosis and was asked if he planned to call his predecessor. Trump responded by calling the news 'very sad' but then segued and suggested that there might have been a cover-up, as others on the political right have floated. 'I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that's a long time,' Trump said. After boasting about acing his own physical - and noting that he had taken a cognitive test - he suggested something was awry with Biden's White House doctor. 'I think that if you look, it's the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. There was nothing wrong with him,' Trump said. 'Maybe it was the same doctor, and somebody is not telling the facts.' He said that while he felt 'badly' about it, 'I think people should try and find out what happened,' the president added. On Sunday, Biden's post-presidential office sent out a statement saying that the former president had been diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, which had metastasized to his bones. Prostate cancers are graded on aggressiveness by using what's called the Gleason score. In the 82-year-old ex-commander-in-chief's case, his Gleason score is a 9 - making it one of the most aggressive. 'While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,' Biden's office said. 'The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.' The former president received an outpouring of support, including from Trump and the first lady. 'Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis,' Trump posted to Truth Social. 'We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.' However Donald Trump Jr. and other members of the online MAGAverse started stirring the pot over whether a cover-up was afoot. 'What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another cover-up???' Trump Jr. mused. Dr. Biden, the former first lady, is not a medical doctor. She has a Ph.D in education. After Biden bombed his late June debate against Trump, questions about his fitness for office got even louder. Then White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre initially bungled a response when asked why a Parkinson's disease expert had visited the White House multiple times. Additionally, Biden's White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, never took questions from the press, unlike Trump's original White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, now a MAGA-aligned Republican representing Texas in Congress. Trump's second White House doctor, Dr. Sean Conley, addressed the press when Trump contracted COVID-19 just weeks before the 2020 election. Conley was criticized, however, for painting a much-too-rosy picture of Trump's battle with the disease, which could have turned deadly. Author Chris Whipple, who wrote Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, said on CNN last month that 'this was different from a cover-up.' 'It wasn't a Watergate-style cover-up. It wasn't a grand conspiracy as Karl Rove has described it,' Whipple said. 'The closest advisers to Biden believed, despite all the evidence, that Joe Biden was capable of running for reelection, of winning and of serving another four years,' Whipple said. 'Now it was really delusional.' Want more stories like this from the Daily Mail? Visit our profile page and hit the follow button above for more of the news you need.
News.com.au
20-05-2025
- Health
- News.com.au
Donald Trump is right: Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis should be investigated
Donald Trump is right. Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, revealed to the world a mere four months after he left office, does demand a serious investigation. I'll begin with an obvious proviso: the former US president's diagnosis is tragic news, and everyone should hope for his treatment to proceed as successfully as possible. Nothing written below invalidates that. But the plea we've heard from some Democrats in the US, that Mr Biden's condition should quieten the already raging discussions about his health, defies sense. 'I think those conversations are going to happen, but they should be more muted and set aside for now,' said the former top political adviser to Barack Obama, David Axelrod, for example. Come on. It is entirely possible to have sympathy for Mr Biden, and to hold concerns about the way both he and those around him handled his ill health throughout his presidency. We're adults here, we can consider more than one thing at a time. And how very much there is to consider. Mr Trump can get us rolling. 'I think people should try and find out what happened,' he said today. 'I don't know if it had anything to do with the hospital. Walter Reed (where presidents receive medical treatment) is really good. They're some of the best doctors I've ever seen. I don't even know if they were involved. 'But a doctor was involved, in each case. Maybe it was the same doctor. And somebody is not telling the facts. It's a big – that's a big problem.' I started the article by saying Mr Trump is right. It's more that he's partially right. He's right about the most basic question here, and is getting a little too speculative about the rest. 'Somebody is not telling the facts,' is an assumption for which we do not have evidence. 'People should try to find out what happened,' however, is obviously true. We need more information before we can judge whether this was caused by negligence, or incompetence, or flawed medical guidelines. The concept of a cover-up, with which Mr Trump flirted, is being floated more openly by others. The idea here is that Mr Biden was diagnosed well before now, but for presumably political reasons, it went undisclosed. That remains far-fetched until any proof to support it emerges. Certain facts are already available. We know, from the public summary released after his most recent annual physical at Walter Reed, in February of last year, that Mr Biden consulted almost a dozen specialists, from fields including orthopaedics, neurology, cardiology, dermatology and radiology. We also know he underwent a range of tests; you can read about them yourself here. But those tests did not include a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which is what eventually yielded the cancer diagnosis, having been prompted, at an as yet unspecified date, by the discovery of a nodule in his prostate. By then the cancer had developed into an advanced, aggressive form. And as Mr Trump pointed out today, that development typically 'takes a long time'. Potentially years. 'I'm surprised that the public wasn't notified a long time ago, because to get to Stage 9, that's a long time,' he said. There's no such thing as Stage 9 cancer. Mr Trump was presumably mixing that up with Mr Biden's Gleason score of nine, a measure which can range from six to ten, and measures the severity of prostate cancer specifically. (You can read about the Gleason score, and how it's calculated, here.) But the question Mr Trump skirted around, which is how Mr Biden's cancer remained undetected for so long, is an entirely valid one. 'Everyone is asking me that same question,' said Dr Kirsten Greene, a specialist in prostate cancer and chair of the urology department at the University of Virginia. 'I have two speculations. One is that prostate cancer screening guidelines in the US recommend stopping prostate cancer screening after age 75,' she told UVA Today, the university's news site. ' It's uncommon to continue to check a PSA every year beyond the age of 75 if your PSA has been fine prior to that.' That could plausibly fit with the timeline of Mr Biden's diagnosis. The former president is 82, and prostate cancer can take as many as seven years to develop to this extent. 'The other possibility could be that his prostate cancer is so aggressive or de-differentiated that it actually stopped making PSA. It's an unusual situation.' Dr Greene also noted it was possible that Mr Biden's previous biopsies had simply 'happened to miss' the cancer. The most likely explanation, then, is that Mr Biden didn't receive the PSA test during his presidency because America's guidelines don't recommend it at that age. But keep in mind, this is one of the most powerful, well-cared for people in the world, with the best medical specialists available to him at any time. Mr Trump did do the test during his annual physical three months ago, and returned a normal result. He, too, is above the age threshold where it's recommended. Whatever the reason for Mr Biden's cancer being missed, it should be found – at the very least, as a matter of public interest for the treatment of future, ahem, geriatric presidents. Biden health scandal keeps growing None of the above should distract too much (despite Mr Axelrod's suggestion) from all the other issues swirling around Mr Biden's health. This cancer news has emerged in the exact same week as a damning book, written by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios journalist Alex Thompson, which details Mr Biden's 'decline' while in office and a 'cover-up' orchestrated by those around him. Mr Biden's granddaughter, Naomi, has dismissed the book as 'a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self-promoting journalists out to make a quick buck', which would read as eerily Trumpy if she had only added a few words in all-caps. Wait, let me fix it. 'A bunch of Unoriginal, Uninspired LIES written by irresponsible self-promoting 'journalists' out to make a QUICK BUCK.' That's better. But look. Tapper and Thompson are respected, veteran journalists. They're not right-wing hacks. The book contains extensive reporting. And yes, many of their sources were given anonymity in return for speaking – I can't recall Ms Biden, or any Democrats, having a problem with that when tell-all books about Mr Trump were being published. So, through sheer weight of evidence, we know Mr Biden's inner circle was capable of obscuring the truth about his health. Mr Trump's Vice President, J.D. Vance, made a fair point while speaking to reporters today. 'We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,' Mr Vance said. 'You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with the recognition that whether it was doctors, or whether there were staffers around the former president, I don't think he was able to do a good job for the American people. 'That's not politics. That's not because I disagreed with him on policy. That's because I don't think he was in good enough health.' Mr Vance said that, 'in some ways', he blamed Mr Biden himself less than those around him. 'Why didn't the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn't the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with? This is serious stuff,' he said. 'We can pray for good health, but also recognise that if you're not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn't be doing the job.'
Forbes
19-05-2025
- Health
- Forbes
Trump Says He's Surprised Public Didn't Know Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Sooner
President Donald Trump said Monday he was 'surprised' the public didn't know about former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis sooner—a comment that came after other Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, appeared to insinuate Biden may have hidden his cancer diagnosis from the American public while he was in office. Former President Joe Biden during a farewell event with staff at Joint Base Andrews in Suitland, MD ... More on Friday, January 20, 2025. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Speaking to reporters Monday evening, Trump said Biden's diagnosis was 'very sad,' but added: 'I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago, because to get stage 9, that's a long time.' Trump was seemingly referring to an announcement saying Biden's diagnosis was 'characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,' though he has stage 4 prostate cancer, which is the most advanced stage. Trump then told reporters he just had his physical and said he was 'proud to announce I aced' the cognitive tests, saying, 'I got them all right.' Vance, when asked about Biden's diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer, replied, 'why didn't the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn't the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with?' The questions echo those on the right who have repeated claims made during Biden's presidency that he was concealing a serious illness. A clip of Biden saying during a July 2022 speech that an oil spill in Delaware was the reason 'I and so damn many other people I grew up [with] have cancer' is being reshared on social media, though the White House said at the time Biden was referring to non-melanoma skin cancer. A claim from right-wing activist Laura Loomer—and noted conspiracist— last summer that Biden was "in the terminal stage of his illness' and 'had a medical emergency on Air Force One' is also getting renewed attention (Loomer cited an unnamed 'medical source in DC,' though her claims were never verified). Some doctors have also said it's unlikely Biden's diagnosis was sudden, given its advanced stage and his accessibility to screening: Yale professor of radiology and biomedical imagining Howard Forman tweeted that it's 'inconceivable' Biden's prostate health wasn't being followed before he left office. Vance, who spoke to reporters as he returned from a trip to Rome to meet the new pope, also said Biden's announcement—which came days before the Tuesday release of a damning new book about his mental state during his 2024 campaign—shouldn't stop further scrutiny into his cognitive health during the campaign: 'In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him,' Vance said. Donald Trump Jr. in a tweet questioned how 'Dr. Jill Biden' overlooked 'stage five metastatic cancer,' asking 'or is this yet another coverup???' The post erroneously suggests Jill Biden is a medical doctor (she has a doctorate in education) and wrongly states that Biden has stage five cancer, which is not an official medical term. Right-wing podcaster and YouTube host Benny Johnson called the cancer diagnosis 'the most dangerous cover-up in the history of the presidency.' Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, and Trump's former White House physician, tweeted that it's 'unbelievable this was missed, but the truth is [Biden's] physician was more concerned about assisting with the political cover up than providing world class medical care.' Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., a urologist, tweeted that while he believes 'Biden's declining mental acuity was covered up, it is medically reckless to assume his prostate cancer was as well,' noting Biden might not have been routinely screened and that more detailed screenings are often needed to detect prostate cancer. Jonathan Waxman, a professor of oncology at Imperial College London and founder of Prostate Cancer UK, told Newsweek that since Biden has an aggressive form of cancer, it may have developed rapidly. 'Original Sin,' by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson is set to be released Tuesday and is expected to be one of the most damning pictures to date of what the authors describe as a 'cover up' of his declining mental state, including claims that aides discussed the possibility of him needing a wheelchair. Biden has 'a more aggressive form' of 'hormone sensitive' prostate cancer that's 'characterized by a Gleason score of 9 with metastasis to the bone,' meaning the cancer is likely to grow and spread quickly, his spokesperson said in a statement over the weekend. Biden received the diagnosis Friday after a 'small nodule' was identified in his prostate earlier this month, the spokesperson said. Biden posted a photo on X Monday of him and Jill Biden, thanking well-wishers. 'Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places,' quoting Ernest Hemingway. Joe Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive' Form Of Prostate Cancer (Forbes) Trump, Obama And Other Leaders From Both Parties Send Well Wishes To Biden After Cancer Diagnosis (Forbes)
