'I blame the people around him': MAGA cheers Biden’s cancer diagnosis

'I blame the people around him': MAGA cheers Biden’s cancer diagnosis
Donald Trump Jr. in Palm Beach, Florida in July 2023 (Gage Skidmore)

Donald Trump Jr. in Palm Beach, Florida in July 2023 (Gage Skidmore)

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President Donald Trump showed initial restraint amid the MAGA feeding frenzy surrounding former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday.

His eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., however, did not resist.

“What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???” Trump Jr. wrote on X, according to Rolling Stone.

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Biden’s diagnosis followed an announcement that “a routine physical exam,” uncovered a “small nodule” that later turned out to rate a “Gleason score of 9”, complete “with metastasis to the bone.” Metastasis in surrounding bone tissue can easily be a death sentence in a patient who is not 82 years old, but Donald Jr.'s challenge at the top of his X account drew echoes and aping from MAGA sources on the internet.

Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire called for an investigation into Democrats’ alleged concealment on X. “We need congress to actually do something finally,” he wrote. “Full investigation. Pull every Biden staffer and official into a hearing. Put them under oath. Jill Biden too. His doctors. Everyone. Who was involved in this cover up? How deep did it go? And most importantly: who was actually running the country for the past four years? We must know.”

Vice President J.D. Vance also chimed in on the professed cover-up. “I blame the people around him. … Why didn’t the American people have a better sense of his health picture?”

MAGA voices like “End Wokeness" also joined the uproar.

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“‘We just found stage 4 cancer’ is the new ‘he just has a stutter,’” the account posted, referring to the former president’s lingering stutter that haunted him throughout his childhood and occasionally manifested at presentations.

Don Jr.’s father, however, who is no stranger to insensitive statements and mocking dead people, offered a curiously inoffensive response to the diagnosis.

“Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery,” posted the president, who—as a 78-year-old-man—has a 13.7 percent chance of contracting prostate cancer along with 1 in 7 men his age.

Read the full Rolling Stone report here.

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