Anyone who has been around kids knows this game: A baby covers his eyes and, because he can’t see you, believes you can’t see him, either. Peek-a-boo is fun until reality sets in for the tiny ones.

But reality has not set in for the tantrum-throwing babies who, with eyes covered since Election Day 2016, have desperately wished for the American president to disappear. They called on Twitter to suspend his account. They impeached him, an effort to nullify an election and throw President Donald Trump off the 2020 ballot. And now their latest attempt to defy object permanence is the most absurd of all: demanding media outlets stop airing news conferences conducted by the president of the United States.

One prominent Democrat – a former senior aide to Nevada senator Harry Reid – claimed that media outlets airing the president’s viral afternoon updates are complicit in people dying unnecessarily. I’m sure the widespread viewership (8.5 million viewers on average, with one day reaching more than 12 million) has nothing to do with it.

Or do the president’s poll numbers, up a few ticks since the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic started. The RealClearPolitics average of Trump’s job approval pegs him at 47.3 percent, the highest of his presidency. On Sunday, the ABC News/Washington Post poll put the president at 49 percent approval versus 47 percent who disapprove, an eight-point improvement since February.

But let’s set that aside and deal with the Democratic notion that a president – or candidate for the presidency – should be banned from television for lying.

Enter Joe Biden, who would fail this test miserably. He has lied repeatedly about his record on the Iraq War and the Trump tax cuts, and was once run out of a presidential campaign for plagiarism. The pandemic – a life and death matter when Trump lies about it, Democrats say – hasn’t stopped Biden from spurting misinformation. Biden is the Old Faithful of liberal dishonesty.

Despite media fact-checkers shooting it down, Biden has repeatedly claimed that Trump called the virus itself “a hoax.” That never happened, though Trump used the term to describe Democratic attacks on his administration’s response.

Biden has asserted that Trump cut funding to the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes for Health. Wrong again. The Washington Post scored this one “3 Pinocchios” and The Associated Press reported that financing increased to both agencies under Trump.

Biden said Trump rejected World Health Organization coronavirus testing kits – more malarkey according to Politifact. And a Biden campaign video claiming Trump “silenced” medical experts was given “4 Pinocchios” by The Washington Post, which must be employing Mister Geppetto on its Biden beat by now.

Beyond that, Biden, like the rest of his party, has fumbled mightily on the issue of Chinese malfeasance. After Trump implemented travel restrictions on China on Jan. 31, Biden tweeted: “A wall will not stop the coronavirus. Banning all travel from Europe – or any other part of the world – will not stop it. This disease could impact every nation and any person on the planet – and we need a plan to combat it.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, our government’s foremost infectious disease expert who often appears at Trump’s side these days, said the Chinese travel restrictions “absolutely” made a difference and that Trump’s subsequent European travel ban was “prudent.”

Not satisfied with what the experts say, Biden continues to assail Trump’s posture toward China. At a town hall meeting, Biden said: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia … and fearmongering.”

It’s too important to keep up the “Trump is racist” narrative than to admit the truth: that China plunged the world into death and chaos with its coverup.

There’s credible reporting that China has understated its coronavirus cases by “15 to 40 times,” while simultaneously trying to “expand its economic power through offering help to other countries which are trying to combat the virus.” And a Wuhan hospital official who “went public, saying authorities had stopped her and her colleagues from warning the world … has now disappeared, her whereabouts unknown,” according to “60 Minutes Australia.”

The Chinese are due a reckoning once this nightmare ends, but they won’t get it from Biden, whose dishonest viral campaign video never once mentioned China’s role in the crisis.

Democrats can whine about Trump’s trouble with the truth all they want, but hiding their eyes from Biden’s rampant dishonesty won’t make it disappear. It seems that Democrats don’t mind being lied to, so long as Trump isn’t the one doing it.