The president of the United States starred in the episode before climbing to the plane to Camp David.
United States President Donald Trump, 78he stumbled this Sunday while climbing the stairs of the Air Force One at the Morristown municipal airport, New Jersey, in the direction of Camp David. The moment was captured in video and quickly went viral on social networks, unleashing divided reactions and comparisons with similar incidents starring the former president, Joe Biden.
The accident occurred in the middle of a day marked by political and social tensions. Shortly before the ship, Trump had offered statements to the press in Hagerstown, Maryland, where he addressed the possibility of applying the insurrection law in California after a series of protests derived from migratory raids.
Although he denied that it was an insurrection, he warned about the presence of “violent groups” and reiterated his intention to deploy federal troops and the National Guard to restore the order. Interestingly, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, also stumbled upon boarding the aircraft later.
The video shows Trump climbing the staircase of the presidential plane whenhalfway, Briefly lose balance. Although he managed to hold the hump and avoid a fall, the moment generated a wave of comments on social networks, where many users compared him to the stumbling blocks suffered by Joe Biden in 2023 and 2024, when climbing the same plane. Criticisms focused not only on the physical health of elderly politicians, but also on the apparent difference in the media treatment of these episodes.
The repercussions on social networks
On platforms such as X users indicated what they consider unequal coverage by the media. “If this had happened to Biden, all the channels would be in ‘last minute’,” said one of the most shared messages. Others, in an ironic tone, recalled that the presidential stumbling blocks have become a symbol of public scrutiny towards the old -age of US political leaders.
Although the current president showed signs of injury and continued on his way normally, the incident revived the debate on his state of health for the political calendar. In a year marked by polarization and the return of key figures to the electoral scene, even a simple triplet can have a great media and political echo.
Source: Ambito
