President Joe Biden struggled during what his administration dubbed as his “big boy” press conference on Thursday afternoon as he sought to calm down his party following his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
Biden, who showed up more than an hour late to the event, used the official White House event to campaign against Trump and made numerous false claims about his own record and about Trump during his opening remarks before moving to call on reporters.
After facing accusations that his administration has carefully staged every public event he has had over the last two years in an effort to hide his cognitive decline, he opened the question and answer session by declaring that he had a list of pre-screened reporters that he was going to call on.
After mixing up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a NATO event just a couple of hours earlier, he made a similar mistake during his press conference, mixing up Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump.
“I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president did I think she’s not qualified to be president,” Biden rambled.
As Biden made the mistake, it was visibly obvious that members of his own cabinet were uncomfortable by the mistake.
Biden seethed at a reporter who asked him about global leaders believing that Biden is not mentally fit for office and whether him continuing to stay in office was damaging the country.
“Did you see any damage of our standing in my leading this conference?” Biden snapped at the reporter. “Have you seen a more successful conference? What do you think?”
Biden said that all the reports that have emerged where he has told other Democrats that he needs to go to bed earlier and needs to do less work were “not true.”
He then effectively said the very thing that he denied when he said that he needed to “pace” himself more, meaning not do as much work.
He also said that he was “catching hell” from first lady Jill Biden for keeping a busy schedule.
Biden later said that if there were any signs of him slowing down that it would be a sign that he shouldn’t be serving as president anymore — just moments after he said that he said needed to “pace” himself and end events earlier so he could go to bed earlier.
After war has broken out in the Middle East and in Europe on his watch, Biden claimed that he was strong on foreign policy and that it was actually Trump who was not good on foreign policy — even though war didn’t break out under Trump.
Biden would not commit to taking a full neurological examination from independent experts before the election because he claimed that doctors have told him that he’s “good”, which comes after Dr. Tom Pitts, a Democrat who is a quadruple board-certified neurologist based in New York City, said during an NBC News interview this week that Biden “definitely has” Parkinson’s disease.
At the end of his press conference he said that it was fine with him if his delegates all showed up at the Democrat National Convention and decided to vote for someone else other than him to be the party’s nominee.
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