On Saturday’s version of MSNBC’s The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart reacted to President Trump’s remark about Japan and Pearl Harbor by demanding dialogue of the twenty fifth Modification — i.e., the removing of Trump from workplace..
Requested by a Japanese reporter why allies like Japan weren’t knowledgeable upfront of U.S. motion towards Iran, Trump mentioned within the presence of Japan’s prime minister:
“Who is aware of higher about shock than Japan? Okay? Why did not you inform me about Pearl Harbor?”
Capehart’s response was placing:
I generally surprise, why are we not having a twenty fifth Modification dialog about this president? As a result of a remark like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we might have been in rolling protection about how Republicans on the Hill thinks that he must be faraway from workplace for speaking to an ally like that, and making that remark in response to a query from a Japanese journalist.
Notably, Capehart did not counsel that Biden making such a comment would have been twenty fifth Modification grounds — solely that Republicans can be making the argument. In fact he did not! Capehart was a part of the liberal media cover-up of Biden’s decline.
Readers will probably be aware of these examples:
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough famously declared Biden the “greatest Biden ever,” whereas columnist Eugene Robinson described him as “sharp as a tack.”
Commentators dismissed sure viral clips of Biden as “low-cost fakes,” and lots of criticized Particular Counsel Robert Hur’s report—which described Biden as an aged man with a poor reminiscence—as out of bounds.
Whoopi Goldberg (The View) explicitly dismissed the significance of cognitive issues, stating her unwavering assist whatever the president’s bodily or psychological situation.
Evan Osnos of the New Yorker wrote in a March 2024 article that Biden’s thoughts appeared “unchanged” and that he “by no means bungled a reputation or a date” throughout an interview.
And let’s not overlook that maybe the only most egregious little bit of protecting for Biden’s decline got here by the hands of . . . Jonathan Capehart!
In the middle of interviewing Biden in October 2024, Biden nodded off, and Capehart needed to jar him awake. And but, in his then-MSNBC present, Capehart edited out that second—undoubtedly the interview’s most newsworthy occasion. Fortuitously, the RNC captured it. For Capehart, a frontrunner of the Biden cover-up, to now demand a twenty fifth Modification investigation of Trump, is hypocrisy par excellence.
Trump’s Pearl Harbor line might need appeared undiplomatic, nevertheless it pales compared to the numerous situations of Biden revealing that he was now not as much as the job — and the liberal media doing its greatest to cowl for him.
Capehart’s visitor Alan Eyre agreed with Capehart, that Trump lacks competence, and dragged Obama into the combination: “You are proper. There is a huge double customary by way of protecting this president versus every other president. President Obama bought grief for sporting a swimsuit of a non-traditional….A tan swimsuit. Proper. So, yeah. Precisely. Precisely. So, once more, I am aghast on the lack of collective outrage at any variety of issues the president says, or extra importantly, what he does.”
On X, nationwide talk-radio host Erick Erickson reminded those who Barack Obama made a considerably comparable joke at a White Home occasion with British prime minister David Cameron in regards to the British setting the White Home in fireplace in 1814 through the Struggle of 1812. “They actually lit up the place,” Obama joked to laughter. Cameron responded with a joke in response. You could possibly argue these have been ready remarks as a substitute of off-the-cuff patter, however this underlines the elitist media’s unending double customary.
This is the transcript.
MS NOW
The Weekend
3/21/26
7:24 am EDTJONATHAN CAPEHART: I wish to play for everybody one thing that the president of the USA mentioned throughout a gathering with the Japanese prime minister on Thursday.
And he was requested why he did not inform America’s allies about what was about to occur in Iran. Please watch this and switch the sound up. Why did not you inform your allies in Europe?
JAPANESE REPORTER: up. Why did not you inform U.S. allies in Europe and in Asia, like Japan, in regards to the battle earlier than attacking Iran. So we’re very confused about, we, Japanese residents.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Effectively, one factor you do not wish to sign an excessive amount of. You recognize, after we go in, we went in very onerous, and we did not inform anyone about it as a result of we needed shock.
Who is aware of higher about shock than Japan? Okay? Why did not you inform me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, proper? No, I feel you imagine in shock I feel far more so than us.
CAPEHART: I seemed on the Japanese prime minister’s face throughout that. And she or he tried very onerous, very, very onerous, to not react.
However as an American citizen, but additionally as a journalist who has coated now 4 presidents, each events, and figuring out how presidents of the USA are supposed to speak and to behave on the world stage, significantly with our allies, that was, nicely, one, past disgusting.
But in addition simply, I generally surprise, why are we not having a twenty fifth Modification dialog about this president?
As a result of a remark like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we might have been in rolling protection about how Republicans on the Hill thinks that he must be faraway from workplace for speaking to an ally like that, and making that remark in response to a query from a Japanese journalist — Alan.
ALAN EYRE: Effectively, I’ve labored for each U.S. president since Reagan in a single type or one other. And you’re fairly proper. This president is qualitatively completely different than each different.
And I do not say that as a member of any political get together. It isn’t a Republican or a Democrat factor. It is a competence and experience, and prioritizing the pursuits of the USA as your high precedence.
This president’s not doing that. His metrics for making choices I do not assume is essentially what’s within the long-term greatest curiosity of the USA.
And also you’re proper. There is a huge double customary by way of protecting this president versus every other president.
President Obama bought grief for sporting a swimsuit of a non-traditional —
EUGENE DANIELS: A tan swimsuit.
EYRE: A tan swimsuit. Proper. So, yeah. Precisely. Precisely. So, once more, I am aghast on the lack of collective outrage at any variety of issues the president says, or extra importantly, what he does.
