President Joe Biden was the butt of jokes far and wide on Friday, after his Thursday press conference mixup, when he confused Mexico’s president with Egypt’s president.
He was trying to do damage control after a special counsel assessed him as “an elderly man with a poor memory” who failed to recall basic facts of his life and career, even momentous ones, such as when his son Beau died and when he was vice president.
Biden only gave more kindling to the fire growing around him as the public begins to realize how far gone his mind really is.
The critics of social media were way ahead of him, including Western Lensman, a X/Twitter account that put together a montage of Biden flubs.
Yet while others are piling on, Alaska’s Rep. Mary Peltola is a Biden loyalist.
On Meet the Press in late December, Peltola defended Biden as mentally sharp and that “as a native person, I think age is a good thing. Wisdom and experience are a good thing.”
“I think that Joe Biden’s mental acuity is very, very on. He’s one of the smartest, sharpest people I’ve met in D.C.,” Peltola told the camera.
The White House came out blasting on Friday, with a rarely heard-from spokesman from the White House, Ian Sams, saying that the special counsel’s report assessment of Biden’s mental frailty was “inappropriate” and “gratuitous.”
Although the report that details Biden’s decades-long sloppy storage of classified documents, it recommends that charges against Biden would be difficult to prove because of his age and loss of memory.
“When the inevitable conclusion is that the facts and the evidence don’t support any charges, you’re left to wonder why this report spends time making gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms of the president,” Sams told reporters.
The report by Robert Hur also was criticized by Vice President Kamala Harris as politically motivated.
“So the way the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts, and clearly politically motivated. And so I will say, when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw,” Vice President Harris said.
Hur initially was appointed by President Donald Trump to a position in the Department of Justice, but it was Attorney General Merrick Garland who appointed him as special counsel. In effect, Vice President Harris was criticizing her own attorney general’s pick.
A former White House doctor has now wondered aloud whether it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove the president.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was the White House doctor for 14 years, said the Hur report is “validation” that Biden is suffering from a “significantly limited” memory issues, and that “we’re at the point now where they should be thinking about” invoking the 25th Amendment.
“He’s our Commander-in-Chief, our head of state and you know, if he can’t stand trial, because of his cognitive issues, I mean, it goes without saying that he can’t be the president of the United States. And so then he gets on TV and he tries to refute this. And he makes it even worse,” Jackson said to Breitbart News.
Sen. Rand Paul, jesting on X/Twitter, noted, “Gonna build a wall with Gaza and make Mexico pay for it and boy are they gonna be confused.”
