This is one video that tells more than the White House ever wanted.
When President Joe Biden wound up a virtual economic forum in Washington on Tuesday, he gave Americans and the world a look at the reality of his final few months in office.
For a full minute, Biden smirked and dawdled as the White House press corps shouted questions about pressing issues facing the country — until he was led off by his handlers, looking for all the world like a dementia patient who’d just wandered out of his rooms into a hallway filled with orderlies.
Without a script, Biden is rudderless. Without a president, the country is leaderless. As one of former President Donald Trump’s official social media accounts on X put it, “This is painful to watch.”
And American enemies can only be salivating.
Check it out here:
Crooked Joe Biden — completely cooked — spends a full minute ignoring questions as his handlers desperately attempt to remove them from the room.
Warning: This is painful to watch. pic.twitter.com/l8G88CGvqa
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 3, 2024
Just back from a supposedly refreshing two-week vacation, Biden conducted a White House event on “Investing in America,” a forum that featured guests from around the country making virtual appearances to tout the supposed benefits of the administration’s infrastructure program, according to UPI.
After a straight-from-the-teleprompter introduction speech, Biden listened as participants spoke up to fawn over “how the President’s Investing in America platform has helped them and their local communities,” as UPI put it.
Given the uncomplicated tasks of reading prepared statements and responding to comforting words from around the country, Biden was at ease. But the moment the scripted part ended, when questions started coming, he had nothing but a vaguely confused, mocking smile as his staff tried to usher reporters from the room.
“Reporters could be heard asking about various key issues, such as establishing a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, free IVF treatment and high grocery prices, while staffers ushered them out, saying, ‘Thank you, press,’” Fox News reported.
Sure, why should the president answer questions about issues like an ongoing war in the Middle East involving Israel, a United States ally fighting proxies of Iran, the United States’ most flagrant enemy?
Why should he answer questions about the inflation his own disastrous policies have brought on his country, and his vice president’s even more disastrous plan to deal with it by price controls?
Why should Americans get the impression that the most powerful post their government is being filled by a man who is coherent, capable and committed to doing the job in dangerous world? Democrats and the establishment media tried to make that fantasy a reality for the upcoming election until Biden’s own shortcomings became too evident to hide.
Now, they’re not even pretending.
And social media reviews were scathing:
This is so Embarrassing, very painful to watch. We have never looked weaker as a nation.
— Kenny (@garciaksr) September 3, 2024
@WhiteHouse this a national embarassment. A totally impotent, useless administration.
— PNW Jeff (@PNWJeff) September 3, 2024
What’s more painful is now knowing his cognitive decline has been going on for a few years, & everyone close to him including his wife, his VP amongst other’s lied to the American people to conceal his mental health issues.
— THE INVISIBLE MAN (@saldon1201) September 3, 2024
Videos like this aren’t just fodder for cheap shots at a political opponent. Or material for bitterly funny jokes at liberals’ expense.
They’re a picture of what Democrats, the establishment media, the Biden family, and supporters have foisted on the country since 2020 — and would have done so for another four years if they could have.
Meanwhile, the hard men of Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran nod knowingly and map out their plans in a world where the United States has all but abdicated its role as the world’s superpower, and its abilities to protect even its own interests.
