Thank you, Chevy Chase. You did the bidding of the MSM at the time and made a caricature of our President. You were well rewarded by a successful TV and movie career - all initially built on fame from making a laughingstock of the President, by perpetuating a false image of Gerald Ford as a bumbling fool.
It wasn't just Chevy Chase. Every chance the media got they got they blinded Pres. Ford with the Kleig? lights and then he'd (understandably) end up tripping over some cable taped to the floor, threshhold, hatch opening, etc.
There were probably months of footage of him not stumbling or tripping or bumping his head on the cutting room floor.