Sen. Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware and former campaign co-chair for Biden's 2024 presidential run, went on CNN on May 28 and told the audience with a straight face that "Joe Biden is fine." This is nearly two years after the entire country watched Biden short-circuit on live television during the June 27, 2024 CNN debate against Donald Trump — a performance so bad that his own party shoved him off the ticket.
Bravo, Senator. That's commitment to the bit. Even Jill Biden gave up the ghost on this one, but Chris Coons is still out here carrying water for a narrative that nobody — and I mean nobody — is buying anymore.
Let's rewind the tape for those keeping score at home. During that now-infamous CNN debate, Biden froze on stage. Just stood there. The lights were on, but the dementia potato had clearly left the building. His own wife, former First Lady Jill Biden, later told CBS News interviewer Rita Braver that watching it terrified her. Her exact words? "I wasn't horrified, I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that." She went further: "Oh my God, he's having a stroke. And it scared me to death."
Read that again. The man's own wife thought he was having a stroke on national television. But sure, Chris — he's "fine."
Coons appeared on Kaitlan Collins' CNN show "The Source" and tried the oldest trick in the Democrat playbook: change the subject. He argued that "rather than focusing on what happened on a debate stage, nearly two years ago now, we ought to be focused on what comes next." Translation: please stop talking about the thing we all saw with our own eyes because it makes us look like liars. Which, of course, we are.
And CNN, ever the dutiful stenographer for the Democratic Party, just let it ride. Collins didn't press him on the fact that Jill Biden herself contradicted his fairy tale. No follow-up on why the entire Democratic establishment panicked after that debate and pushed Biden out of the race if everything was so "fine." Just a pleasant chat between friends.
This is what passes for journalism at CNN in 2026. A senator goes on air to gaslight the American people about something we all watched happen in real time, and the host nods along like she's hearing a reasonable take. The man's own party staged what amounted to a political intervention. Kamala Harris was swapped in as the candidate because Biden was so clearly unfit. But Coons missed that memo apparently.
Here's what makes this genuinely insulting. It's not just that Coons is lying — politicians lie, water is wet, the sun rises in the east. It's that he thinks we're stupid enough to believe it. He sat at a funeral for a former Wilmington mayor in Delaware alongside Biden and decided that was proof enough to go on national television and declare the man fit as a fiddle.
As NewsBusters reported, this whole episode is a masterclass in why trust in media sits somewhere between used car salesmen and email scammers. CNN had a senator on their network making a claim that the senator's own party disproved by its actions, that the former First Lady disproved with her own words, and they treated it like a legitimate perspective worthy of serious airtime.
We watched it. Jill watched it. The Democratic Party watched it and hit the panic button. But Chris Coons wants you to know that Joe Biden is fine. And CNN wants you to know that's a perfectly reasonable thing to say.
Sure it is, Senator. And I'm a Nigerian prince with a business opportunity for you.