Double standards on presidential health and workload

THE New York Times’ interest in President Trump’s health (The Mercury, November 27) is significant because it never paid any attention to (Joe) Biden's obvious cognitive decline and his very limited exposure to the press during his four years as president.

- DR DUNCAN DU BOIS

Instead, the NYT and the rest of the mass media refrained from reporting negative details about Biden, who spent 40% of his time as president away from the White House, often on the beach in Delaware eating ice cream.

That vast numbers of documents were not signed by Biden but by the autopen. Yet the NYT has never questioned the legitimacy of those autopen signatures.

In contrast, Trump’ daily schedule would exhaust most people. Like Margaret Thatcher, he gets by on four hours of sleep a night. Officials have become used to him making calls past midnight to query issues.