Media Rushes To Use Biden Cancer To Bring Back Aging Cover Up

In the wake of former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis, the public should set aside talks about efforts to hide his declining mental health, multiple media figures argued over the weekend.

Doctors diagnosed Biden with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer Friday which metastasized to his bones, his personal office said in a statement Sunday.

The timing of the announcement preceded a forthcoming book by Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper which reportedly exposes a number of moments members of Biden’s administration privately expressed concerns over his health.

Despite the growing concern over whether or not members of the Biden administration misled the public, members of the media claimed his cancer diagnosis should put such worries aside.

“Those conversations are going to happen but they should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this,” CNN commentator and former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama David Axelrod said Sunday.

David Axelrod says conversations about Biden’s mental state should be “muted” after the family revealed Joes cancer diagnosis. pic.twitter.com/cEKYeVlvlV

— Trending Politics (@tpbreaking) May 19, 2025

Another popular left-wing commentator, self-described “loudmouth” Jeffrey Tiedrich, expressed a more explicit sentiment. (RELATED: Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say)

“The ‘Joe Biden is old’ crowd needs to shut the fuck up right now,” he wrote on the social media platform BlueSky.

the ‘Joe Biden is old’ crowd needs to shut the fuck up right now

— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) May 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Across the aisle, former “The View” personality Meghan McCain, daughter to the late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, made similar remarks.

“I don’t know if it’s just my bias or background but I don’t want to hear anything else about Biden’s health coverup, tell all’s, interviews with staff etc. Let the Biden family be in peace right now,” she wrote in a Sunday post on X.

“This is all just so sad and imprudent,” McCain concluded.

I don’t know if it’s just my bias or background but I don’t want to hear anything else about Biden’s health coverup, tell all’s, interviews with staff etc.

Let the Biden family be in peace right now.

This is all just so sad and imprudent.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) May 18, 2025

While calls for the conversation surrounding Biden’s acuity to end were bipartisan, so too were criticisms of that viewpoint.

“The way David Axelrod instantly exploited Biden’s cancer — demanding talk of the DC cover-up be “set aside” — is characteristically repugnant,” progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted Monday.

“Biden isn’t the villain of this scandal. The villains are those in media and the Dem Party who lied about his cognitive decline,” Greenwald added.

The way David Axelrod instantly exploited Biden’s cancer — demanding talk of the DC cover-up be “set aside” — is characteristically repugnant.

Biden’s isn’t the villain of this scandal. The villains are those in media and the Dem Party who lied about his cognitive decline. https://t.co/A0DesmzSMJ

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 19, 2025

Joining Greenwald was Vice President JD Vance, who said Monday that the country still needs to have a conversation about whether or not Biden was up for the job.

“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. And that’s not politics. That’s not because I disagreed with him on policy. That’s because I don’t think that he was in good enough health,” Vance said.

.@VP JD Vance on former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: “We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job…I don’t think that he was in good enough health. In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him.” pic.twitter.com/0DYOd2mu4G

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 19, 2025

“In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him,” he continued. “This is not child’s play, and we can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you’re not in good enough health to do the job, you should not be doing the job.”