President Biden’s cognitive impairment surfaced again yesterday during his visit to a Mack Truck plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
As he has so often, Biden appeared confused. He mixed up his two predecessors, and manufactured a tale about being a truck driver in his salad days, although he’s been a politician living on the taxpayers’ dime all of his life.
White House officials scrambled to come up with a credible tale explaining the gaffe.
Three Fibs
“Let me close with this,” Biden began in his first big gaffe:
Back in 2009, during the so-called “Great Recession,” the President asked me to be in charge of managing that piece — then-President Trump — excuse me, Freudian slip; that was the last President. He caused — anyway, that was — President Obama, when I was Vice President.
Aside from the mix-up of the two presidents, yet again Biden fumbled his way through that part of his talk.
Biden was also confused about his past. In his early days, he told workers, he was lookin’ at the world through a windshield: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man.”
“There is scant evidence that Biden has ever driven an 18-wheeler truck,” Fox News reported. A White House spokesman noted a 48-year-old newspaper article that said Biden hitched a 536-mile ride to Ohio in a big rig:
Fox News pressed the spokesperson about the president’s claim — noting that riding in a truck is not the same as driving one — at which point the president’s spokesperson pointed to a United Federation of Teachers post that touched on Biden driving a school bus in the past as a summer job.
Driving a school bus isn’t the same as driving a 18-wheeler either, but the girls at the White House had to say something.
“False memories” are a serious problem in those with cognitive impairment. Biden’s false memory is similar to one of Ronald Reagan’s, who told many that he was with a film crew when Americans liberated two Nazi concentration camps. Leftists claim Reagan lied. But maybe the Gipper was beginning to suffer Alzheimer’s, the disease that afflicted him for a decade until he died in 2004.
America an Idea
Biden was similarly dazed during his town hall with his pal, CNN’s Don Lemon. Biden was likely sundowning, a symptom of dementia and Alzheimer’s that describes “increased confusion, anxiety, agitation, pacing and disorientation beginning at dusk and continuing throughout the night,” as the Alzheimer’s Association put it. On July 25, he answered a reporter’s question by saying “my butt’s been wiped. ”
Representative Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), White House physician to Presidents Trump and Obama, told Fox talker Sean Hannity that Biden is out to lunch.
“There’s something seriously going on with this man right now. And you know I think that he’s either going to — he’s either going to resign, they’re going to convince him to resign from office at some point in the near future for medical issues or they’re going to have to use the 25th Amendment to get rid of this man right now,” he said:
If you’re a cabinet member right now … secretary of defense or secretary of treasury or his attorney general, you have to be looking at him right now and thinking to yourself like what is going on? Can I take direction from this man right now?…
This is a national security issue at this point.
As for the talk in Macungie itself, Biden repeated what he said in May: America is not a real place with a unique history and culture. It’s an “idea,” the “product of a document.”
“We’re the most unique nation in the history of the world,” Biden said:
Every other nation was put together based on ethnicity or religion, geography — but not America. America is the most unique nation in the world, and literally, we’re based on the ide- — an idea. An idea is what formed America. And the idea was — and it sounds corny, but it is absolutely true — no other nation has this as their organizing principle: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights … life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
That isn’t what the Founding Fathers thought.
