Joe Biden Has Aides Walk Around Him So He Doesn't Look As Old
It's no secret that President Joe Biden is old, and his rapidly increasing senility has led to a series of embarrassing gaffes and lapses of memory.
Not to mention his Ron Burgundy moment this week where he read "four more years, pause" from the teleprompter before looking around in a confused daze for 6 to 7 seconds.
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With about six months remaining before what's expected to be a tight election, Biden and his handlers are clearly concerned about how his obvious mental decline will be received by the public. And they're resorting to increasingly embarrassing changes in order to do so.
According to a report from Axios, the 81-year-old president, after months of walking by himself from place to place, is now almost exclusively seen walking with other staffers and aides. Why? In order to make his elderly-looking shuffle less obvious to people watching, and the general public.
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn after landing on Marine One with senior members of his staff at the White House on April 18. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
As if this administration could be any more embarrassing.
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Biden's inability to process information, halting walk, embarrassing falls and profound inability to tell the truth pale in comparison to what his staffers do on his behalf.
But when taken in totality, it paints a picture of someone who has little idea where he is or what he's doing, can't function without cheat sheet cards and detailed instructions, and a media willing to tolerate the fact that their every interaction is entirely scripted. That'd be bad enough for a low-level politician. But Biden is the leader of the free world and one of the most powerful people on earth.
And he can't even walk by himself from place to place without aides surrounding him so he looks less feeble. It'd be a laughable joke, if it wasn't so obviously dangerous.
In virtually every public appearance, Biden repeats easily disproven lies about his past. And is never held accountable for it.
And instead of holding him and his administration accountable, most major media outlets ignore it or excuse it because of shared political ideology. If Biden belonged to a different party, his repeated lies, obvious senility and now his staffers' desperation to hide his physical condition would be front page news every day.
Instead, this story will likely be buried, along with the many others that accurately reflect his decline.