President Joe Biden appeared dazed and confused as he left the podium following remarks at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York City on Wednesday.
I don’t claim to be a neurologist, but the president seemed to experience a moment of complete disorientation. In the clip below, the crowd is applauding his speech as Biden shuffles zombielike away from the podium. He stops, looking for direction from one of his handlers, appears to catch the eye of a staffer, and points down. He pauses once again, then looks quickly back at the stage where a speaker is thanking him for his address.
RNC Research posted a clip of the incident on Twitter with a reminder of what Biden had told CBS News’ journalist Scott Pelley during an interview that aired on Sunday night.
“Watch me if you think I don’t have the energy level or the mental acuity.” — Biden, 4 days ago https://t.co/laLUEzA0Dt
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 21, 2022
The C-SPAN video below may provide additional context. Biden ends his address at the 6:00 mark. He remains onstage as he listens to the speaker. After one minute and 45 seconds of remarks, the speaker invited several attendees, including Biden, to the stage for a photograph.
Regardless of whether or not Biden was supposed to remain on stage for the photo-op, his behavior can at best be described as extremely awkward. And while we obviously don’t know what the president was experiencing at the time, the optics were pretty bad.
The moment was bizarre. We’ve seen Biden stumble over words, lose his train of thought in the middle of a sentence, and speak gibberish. But I’ve truly never seen him look quite this lost.
Did his handlers, who typically micromanage his every move, fail to anticipate he might not know what to do when his speech ended?
During a June meeting at the White House, a camera happened to catch a small notecard in President Joe Biden’s hand. An enlargement of the photo showed the card contained a series of instructions for him to follow.
Next time someone tries to tell you Joe Biden isn’t a geriatric nursing home patient trapped in the White House, show them this.
He needs a notecard with step by step directions telling him what to do, including “YOU take YOUR seat”.
This is beyond embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/GRMbgpcrEq
— Benny Johnson | Meme-Attack Survivor ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾✊🏻 (@bennyjohnson) June 23, 2022
Two weeks ago, the President and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., to sign the condolence book for late Queen Elizabeth II. Rather than composing his own heartfelt message like any adult would, he pulled out a type-written notecard, obviously prepared by an aide, and copied the contents into the book.
Biden’s cognitive decline is impossible to hide and has now become a national security issue.
A man who can’t navigate his way off a stage is incapable of running the country.
Which only raises the question — if Biden’s not calling the shots, who is?
A previous version of this article appeared on The Western Journal.
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