Biden’s geriatric gaffes

Biden’s geriatric gaffes

Biden has made up fanciful tales his entire career which may explain why his initial presidential gaffes were ignored. But it soon became evident that these gaffes were something more. I do not understand why everyone is now blaming the White House and the media for covering up Biden’s lack of mental acuity. We should blame ourselves. We have all seen it from the first days of his presidency. We knew it existed despite the protestations from the left. Even when Robert Hur’s report was made in February 2024 saying that Biden was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and “diminished faculties in advancing age,” the democrats kept making excuses. I guess they were hoping that telling us that what we were seeing was not what we were seeing would convince us that we were not seeing what we were seeing (Kamala Harris would be proud of that one!). They were lying. We knew they were lying. 

The New York Post says that Biden made 148 in 2024 alone. But Biden has made geriatric gaffes during his entire term. Here are only a few of them.

1. “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.”
2. Reading the teleprompter instructions: “Four more years? Pause?”
3. In a speech at the White House, he asked “Where’s Jackie?” But Rep. Jackie Walorski was dead.
4. Kept going the wrong way off of stages
5. Kept calling Kamala Harris the president
6. Said that democrats campaigned in 54 states in 2018
7. Thanked at an Asian conference the Prime Minister of Columbia for hosting the conference when the host country was Cambodia
8. Called the Royal Air Force the RFA
9. Called the British prime minister Rashee Sanook (instead of Rishi Sunak)
10. Called the Congressional Hispanic Caucus the Congressional Black Caucus
11. Said that he had been to every mass shooting.
12. Said that he had commuted by train over the Francis Scott Key Bridge which doesn’t have train tracks.
13. Called Zelensky “President Putin”
14. Said “Look I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if she were not qualified to be president.”
15. Forgot defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s name and called him “black man.”
16. Biden said he would beat Donald Trump again in 2020.
17. He said “We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be defended”
18. Announced at the NAACP convention that he is going to cap raises of rent to $55.
19. Said an uncle was eaten by cannibals during WWII.
20. He confused then British PM Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher
21. He said the democrats would take back the House of Representatives when they were already in the majority.
22.  Mistook a woman he took a picture with for Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC), who was not present at the time.
23. Confused French President Macron with former French President Mitterrand who died in 1996.
24. “When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic. Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it!'”
25. Said on a Philadelphia radio station that he was proud to be the first black woman to serve with a black president. 

That people are finally conceding what Tom Cotton said that Biden is an “addled and demented old man” simply is amazing to me. What took so long? Of course, the upside of all this is that if he had been removed from office, then Kamala Harris would have been president.