Liberal radio host Stephanie Miller was a guest on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. The two discussed former President Biden’s cognitive abilities.

Radio host Stephanie Miller appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program (Image: Fox News)

Stephanie Miller had Sean Hannity on his toes as she turned the tables on him, involving a question about former President Biden’s alleged cognitive decline.

The 64-year-old political commentator, who hosts her own progressive radio program, The Stephanie Miller Show, was a guest on Hannity’s show on Fox News on Wednesday, November 12. During her appearance on the show, the 63-year-old conservative reporter asked her when she noticed “Biden’s cognitive decline.” Hannity followed that question by telling Miller, “Don’t change the subject and deflect.”

“Well, I think it was through all of the times that Donald Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet in the last few—” Miller began, referring to specific viral clips of Trump nodding off and his ramblings.

Hannity can be heard saying, “Oh my gosh,” while Miller was speaking. The two continued their tense exchange, which saw Hannity become increasingly irritated.

Miller appeared to be referring to a live broadcast of a press conference at the White House on November 7. The press conference was to announce the agreement drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk made with Trump to lower the price of some GLP-1 weight loss medication. While Dr. Mehmet Oz was speaking, Trump was seen on camera closing his eyes and appearing to be asleep.

Hannity was annoyed with Miller (Image: Fox News)

The “magnets getting wet” seemed to be in reference to an odd remark Trump made at a rally in Iowa in January 2024.

“Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this: give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets,” Trump said before mentioning agricultural machinery company John Deere multiple times.

However, Trump has recently talked about magnets various times in the past week. During the swearing-in of the new ambassador to India on Monday, November 10, the 79-year-old convicted felon went into a rant about China and a recent agreement with the country, regarding the alleviation of their rare earth export rules. He said China was going to hit America with “rare earth,” which meant “magnets”. He claimed that “nobody knows what magnets are” after saying China has a monopoly on magnets.

During a press conference on November 7, Trump seemed to be snoozing (Image: Getty)

He reiterated the same magnet claim on Fox News earlier this week. Trump said to the outlet, “President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets. Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything”

Discussions of Biden’s cognitive abilities have existed since before and during his presidency, especially by Trump and other Republicans. The discussion escalated when the 82-year-old politician was running for president in 2024 and then withdrew in July of that year.

Jack Tapper co-wrote a book with Axios reporter Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, about Biden’s supposed cognitive decline. The non-fiction book was published on May 20, and it described the allegations of Biden’s mental and physical decline during the second half of his presidency and how it was concealed from the American public by his inner circle, especially in his decision to run for reelection in 2024.

Biden’s cognitive abilities have been the subject of conversation for a few years (Image: Getty)

A spokesperson from Biden’s office said that the release of the book was an attempt to make a profit, per NPR.

“We continue to await anything that shows where Joe Biden had to make a presidential decision or where national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his job,” the spokesperson said. “He was a very effective president.”

In June, Biden had said Trump and congressional Republicans’ focus on his cognitive abilities is a “distraction” from “disastrous legistlature they are pushing such as cutting programs like Medicaid and raising costs on American families, ” all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations.”