What happens on 'bad days': Troubling revelations about John Fetterman and Joe Biden

John Fetterman has ever been an eccentric quality connected a star-crossed path.

He is the lone United States legislator who has adopted a hoodie arsenic his authoritative uniform. 

He is besides the lone 1 who suffered a changeable connected the eve of his superior victory, making it hard for him to speak, but won the general election anyway.

And the Pennsylvania Democrat doesn’t toed the enactment connected each enactment positions, particularly erstwhile it comes to his fierce enactment for Israel.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. ,talks with newsman aft the legislature luncheons successful the U.S. Capitol connected Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

But present comes a troubling communicative successful New York Magazine that casts the legislator successful a overmuch darker light.

The New York Times enactment it this way: Fetterman’s erstwhile main of unit "was truthful alarmed with his ex-boss’s erratic behaviour past twelvemonth that helium wrote a lengthy missive to his doc informing that the legislator was spiraling retired of power and that his intelligence wellness issues could outgo him his life."

The staffer, Adam Jentleson, added successful penning Fetterman’s Walter Reed doctor: "I’m disquieted that if John stays connected his existent trajectory helium won’t beryllium with america for overmuch longer." 

Other erstwhile unit members told the Times that colleagues were sometimes "frightened" to beryllium successful his beingness erstwhile helium was manic, and that his "volatile" behaviour has gotten worse since the election.

Fetterman issued a statement saying that "my ACTUAL doctors and my household affirmed that I’m precise well." He called the mag communicative a "hit piece" and promoted the thought that its author, Ben Terris, was "best friends" with Jentleson and that they "sourced anonymous, disgruntled staffers with lies oregon distorted half-truths."

Terris, for his part, disclosed successful the nonfiction that Adam Jentleson is simply a "personal friend." So it wasn’t a authorities secret.

Jentleson wrote to the aesculapian manager who supervised Fetterman’s hospitalization for mental wellness problems successful 2023: "He does not spot his doctors. I americium not definite erstwhile helium past saw a cardiologist, but I don’t deliberation he’s seen 1 since helium was released. He agelong agone ordered america to halt putting regular drop-bys with Dr. Monahan connected his schedule, contempt the information that helium had agreed to those arsenic portion of the plan." Brian Monahan is the Capitol and Supreme Court physician. 

Fetterman was the archetypal Democratic legislator to sojourn Trump, who carried Pennsylvania and the different plaything states, astatine Mar-a-Lago. 

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Jentleson wrote different doctor: "We bash not cognize if helium is taking his meds, and his behaviour often suggests helium is not."

Among different things, wrote Jentleson, his ex-boss drives recklessly and precocious bought a gun. There are "high highs and debased lows; long, rambling, repetitive and self-centered monologues lying successful ways that are painfully, awkwardly evident to everyone successful the room."

Joe Biden, who does his archetypal post-White House interrogation today, with his woman connected "The View," is simply a full different story.

His occupation was not slump but making different Democrats depressed erstwhile helium insisted connected moving for a 2nd term. We present cognize however his woman and his unit protected him from the property and adjacent his ain unit to debar revealing his intelligence decline.

And that blew up connected them successful the horrible statement with Trump. Ron Klain has gone connected the grounds with his vexation that his longtime brag walked retired connected 1 prep league and fell dormant by the pool.

Joe Biden dropped retired of the 2024 contention aft a disastrous statement show against Donald Trump. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Now comes a caller revelation successful a forthcoming publication by Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of the New York Times and Isaac Arnsdorf of the Washington Post.

The Times writes, citing the book, that "his apical White House aides debated having him acquisition a cognitive trial to beryllium his fittingness for a 2nd term" successful the aboriginal weeks of 2024.

Here was the dilemma, according to "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America." And that’s an close title.

Biden’s closest aides "worried that the specified information of his taking 1 would rise caller questions astir his intelligence abilities."

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Which is precisely what would person happened. Rather than persuading the erstwhile president not to run, they wouldn’t adjacent fto him bash a soft-focus Super Bowl interview.

During this play successful 2022, the Times published an interrogation with David Axelrod, the erstwhile Obama White House authoritative turned CNN commentator. Axelrod said Biden "looks his age"--then 79–and added:  "The stark world is the president would beryllium person to 90 than 80 astatine the extremity of a 2nd term, and that would beryllium a large issue."

Axelrod angrily called Klain, past the main of staff, to inquire wherefore helium was fueling doubts astir a Democratic president.

"There’s nary Obama retired there, Axe," Klain told him, according to the book. "Who’s going to bash it if helium doesn’t bash it?"

John Fetterman staffer Adam Jentleson said: "I’m disquieted that if John stays connected his existent trajectory helium won’t beryllium with america for overmuch longer."  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

This was besides astir the clip that peculiar counsel Robert Hur, declining to prosecute Biden connected the classified documents helium voluntarily turned over, called the president "a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged antheral with a mediocre memory." That seems incredibly mild now. Biden held a quality league to state his representation was fine, but referred to the president of Egypt arsenic the president of Mexico.

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Talk astir bully days and atrocious days. Everyone has atrocious days, but it has nationalist and planetary resonance erstwhile it involves a legislator oregon a president.

None of this should beryllium utilized to stigmatize those with intelligence wellness oregon intelligence acuity problems. But determination are reddish flags present that deepen our knowing of what’s truly happening.