Five years ago already, in 2019, Joe Biden appeared to forget Barack Obama’s name during a campaign town hall meeting. That would be the Barack Obama whom Biden worked under for eight years, the Obama he once famously said was the “first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Yet a half a decade later Joe is still out there, functioning — sort of.
Oh, he’s mumbling and stumbling and fumbling for facts, but he’s out there. It’s just amazing what you can accomplish, many may conclude, with the absolute best medical care. And now ex-White House physician Ronny Jackson, M.D., who served under three presidents, has weighed in on how this medical miracle is worked.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard such talk. In 2020, a purported Biden ex-staffer anonymously alleged that Biden was being given anti-dementia medication Namenda. But while that was a rumor, for certain is that Biden is now on something — and Jackson, presently a GOP congressional member, theorizes about what the drugs might be.
The doctor made his comments during an appearance this past weekend on Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo opened the segment mentioning Biden’s recent dementia-related missteps. She highlighted how he apparently forgot Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s name on Tuesday, had to be led off stage by Barack Obama during a fundraiser in Los Angeles, wandered off aimlessly during a G7-summit group meeting before being pulled back by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and appeared to freeze up during a celebratory Juneteenth White House concert.
It’s so bad, in fact, that the administration is reduced to claiming the videos of the above are phony — “cheapfakes.” The White House knows they’re real, of course, but is willing to just flat-out lie (perhaps knowing that many Biden partisans will accept their claim uncritically).
As for Dr. Jackson’s appearance, Bartiromo first asked about his background, to which he responded (transcript courtesy of FOX News Media Relations, via American Thinker):
Well, I am a board-certified emergency medicine physician, Maria. I was in the White House for 14 years during the Bush administration, the Obama administration and the Trump administration. During that time, I took care of all three of the presidents, and on a day-to-day basis.
I also was the director of the White House Medical Unit in the appointed position of the president for both Obama and Trump. So I kind of feel like I know exactly what’s required on a day-to-day basis, both mentally and physically, to do the job of president of the United States.
Jackson later discussed Biden’s behavior/symptoms and how it’s certain that he’s medicated. He said:
I’m going to be demanding on behalf of many millions of concerned Americans right now that he submit to a drug test before and after this debate, specifically looking for performance-enhancing drugs, because we see — we have seen recently in his State of the Union address that there was a Joe Biden that came out that was not similar at all to what we see on a day-to-day basis for the last 3.5 years.
And there’s just really no way to explain that, other than he was on something, that they’d given him medications. I feel like this is probably what’s going on over this week at Camp David. He’s going to be at Camp David for a full week before the debate. Part of that is probably experimenting with just getting the doses just right, because they have to treat his cognition.
They have to give him something to help him think straighter. They have to give him something to wake him up to — for his alertness. And then he’s been agitated. We see that all the time. And that’s a common — that’s a common symptom or sign of this cognitive disorder that he seems to be suffering from.
And so they’re probably going to give him something to take the edge off that as well. They didn’t get it right just last time at the State of the Union. He came out. He was obviously much more alert, but he was a yelling, angry old man. And he still didn’t make a lot of sense.
So I think they have got an uphill battle here.
Note, too, it’s certain that during Biden’s week of prep, his sleep schedule is being altered to combat the “sundowning” phenomenon — the greater confusion dementia patients experience at night — so that he will, hopefully, peak in the evening (when the presidential debate occurs).
Returning to Bartiromo, she also affirmed one of Jackson’s statements, mentioning that the GOP Doctors Caucus chairman, Dr. Greg Murphy, said Biden was definitely “jacked up” during the State of the Union. She then asked Jackson what Biden could be on, to which he replied:
Aricept is one of the ones that you most commonly hear about, but there’s all kinds of new drugs that are out there that are specifically for Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, things that that cause these cognitive issues that the president seems to be subject to.
… They try to make it where he can think straighter and he’s not lost and confused as much. And then there’s drugs that actually just increase alertness, like Adderall and other types of amphetamine-type drugs, maybe Provigil, things like that.
And then there’s a host of drugs that try to take the agitated edge off of most of these cognitive disorders. So I feel like they’re probably giving him a little bit of all of this. They just have to get it just right. They all have different times of onset. They have different duration. They interact with each other.
So it’s — it’s a challenge, but I think they have no choice with what they’re working with. They don’t have much to work with.
Dr. Jackson later stated that Biden’s dementia and drugged state is “a national security issue” because “it’s dangerous for our country.”
Realize, too, that the genesis of Biden’s poor cognition might go back decades. In 1988, he had two cranial aneurysms, life-threatening conditions that required surgery — and which can cause long-term cognitive impairment.
As for the danger to our nation, though, remember that Biden is not really in charge. This raises the real question: Who is?
We can only know precisely how safe, or imperiled, we are if we know who’s pulling the strings.
