Scott Bessent Demolishes Media to Their Faces Over

President Donald Trump has some great picks in his Cabinet, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is actually one of them. He can talk the factors that need to be made clearly, in a means that many can not. And he is not afraid to take on the liberal media and cut them down to dimension, even to their faces, as he did at the New York Times DealBook Summit Wednesday. 

First, Bessent told them he’d stopped studying the paper, hitting them proper where they lived, because they had been “just this fever swamp.” Then he took on their latest Trump “fatigue” story, and just decimated that. 

“You know, in twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years The New York Times is no longer the paper of record,” he predicted. “I read this article, like ‘President Trump is slowing down. President Trump’s mental capacity –’ It is a hundred percent fake. Like he only called me twice at two in the morning last week instead of three times.”

Bessent then spoke about “one of the greatest scandals of all time, the coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden’s diminished capacity, and the cover-up.” 

“Where was the New York Times?” Bessent scolded them. 

🚨 BREAKING: In a mic drop second, Sec. Scott Bessent just PUMMELED the NYT to their faces for a HUGE double normal on Donald Trump’s health

“WHERE was the New York Times? We just had a 3 hour cabinet meeting yesterday!”

“For 10 MONTHS Biden did not have a cabinet meeting.… pic.twitter.com/HyPWjPWFUF

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 3, 2025

For 10 MONTHS Biden didn’t have a cupboard assembly. How are you going to invoke the twenty fifth Amendment if the cupboard secretaries never see the president?

The DealBook founder, Andrew Ross Sorkin, then said that’s why he thought it was “fair” to convey it up. It’s honest to convey it up about Trump because you dropped the ball on Biden? Trump does not have the problems Biden had. Tell me how that is smart. Suddenly, they bear in mind they’re supposed to be questioning when it comes to Trump. 

But Bessent introduced him up short, saying that Trump just held a three-hour Cabinet assembly the day before. He then explained that Biden went ten months without holding a Cabinet assembly. “How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the Cabinet secretaries never see the president?” Bessent asked. 

Exactly! Biden held nine cabinet meetings in all the time he occupied the Oval Office, and only one in 2024. There were even reports that his staff was isolating him from Cabinet members. Some of the Cabinet secretaries allegedly said that they were boxed out from access to Biden in 2023 and 2024.

Meanwhile, Trump has held 9 since he began his second time period, doing about one a month, and they have been viewable by the public, with Trump actively main them and even taking on the press in the method. 

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“I hear from people in the Treasury building that I see President Trump more in a day than my predecessor saw Joe Biden in half a year!” Bessent declared. 

You have to assume that the NY Times has to be feeling that burn Bessent just delivered to them at their own event. He just sunk them with a little dose of actuality. 

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