Sleepy Joe Biden showed again yesterday that he is suffering a major cognitive deficit, if not full-blown dementia, when he inadvertently revealed that he needs detailed notes to get through meetings.
Though comic, as the New York Post observed, the notes, which even reminded the soon-to-be-octogenarian that he had to sit down, suggest that Biden can’t handle his job. This isn’t the first time the elderly president has used a cheat sheet to get through meetings and public events.
Aside from the latest sign of what could be dementia, Biden frequently garbles words during speeches, and was seen at the White House two months ago apparently unaware of his surroundings.
Yet the revelation is not surprising. Honest Democrats confessed that Biden was non compos mentis during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Detailed Directions
All presidents receive notes about meetings with business executives and foreign dignitaries. But the crib notes Biden revealed seem over the top. Serendipitously, a photographer caught the embarrassing instructions.
“The prepared instructions for Biden — titled ‘Offshore Wind Drop-By Sequence of Events’ — tell Biden to ‘enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants,’” the Post reported:
Then, the paper says, “YOU take YOUR seat.”
The typed-up note says that after reporters arrive, “YOU give brief comments (2 minutes).”
When reporters depart, “YOU ask Liz Shuler, President, AFL-CIO, a question” and then “YOU thank participants” and “YOU depart.”
Biden’s use of staff notes at events has been embarrassing before, such as last July, when an aide scrawled, “Sir, there is something on your chin.” Biden also held that note so it faced reporters and photographers.
As for cheat sheets, he used one in March when he reiterated his irresponsible and dangerous call that Russian President Vladimir Putin be overthrown.
“It’s more an aspiration than anything. He shouldn’t be in power,” Biden said:
There’s no — I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do. The fact is they do, but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.
His comments closely aligned with notes printed on a small piece of paper that he was photographed holding in his left hand as he spoke that began as follows:
• If you weren’t advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify?
• I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards the actions of this man
• I was not articulating a change in policy
Dementia Joe
Again, all presidents read from prepared remarks and receive notes about events and the people they meet. But those given to Biden — which told him to say hello to meeting participants — suggest that Biden simply doesn’t know where he is or what he is supposed to do.
At an event at the White House in April with former President Barack Obama, Biden appeared lost. On another occasion recently, he appeared to shake hands with thin air.
As well, Biden frequently garbles words.
“America is a nation that can be defined in a single word,” he said recently. “Asufutimaehaehfutbw.”
In September last year, he forgot the name of Australia’s prime minister, and referred to him as the “fella down under.” In July, he said he was a long-haul truck driver in his salad days, a claim that had White House underlings scratching their heads — and struggling to find an excuse for the falsehood.
Concerns about Biden’s cognitive decline preceded his nomination.
In March 2020, Ryan Grim, a writer for The Intercept, wrote that Biden was “sundowning,” a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Freelance finance writer Matthew Stoller, a supporter of Bernie Sanders, tweeted that “Democratic insiders know Biden has cognitive decline issues. They joke about it. They don’t care.”
Leftist Ted Rall claimed that Biden had dementia: “Democrats are conspiring to gaslight the American people by engineering the election of a man clearly suffering from dementia,” he wrote for Rasmussen Reports.
Biden was born on November 20, 1942, when Americans were fighting on Guadalcanal and the Red Army was defending Stalingrad.
If elected to a second term, he will be 82 years old. He will be 86 when his second term ends — if he lasts that long.
