Joe Biden’s media mates drop their years of defence

Even Joe Biden’s staunchest supporters can’t hide the fact that the president is now a shell of a man – after years of trying to convince us otherwise.

“I am President of the United States of America,” Joe Biden said in 2021, as though reminding himself.

Then, echoing a slogan made famous by wartime leader Harry S. Truman, Biden went on: “And the buck stops with me.”

At the time, Biden was attempting to give an impression of taking responsibility for his government’s fatally mismanaged military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

But his “buck stops with me” charade didn’t survive the rest of Biden’s speech, in which he blamed not himself for the withdrawal debacle, but instead pointed at previous president Donald Trump and America’s Afghan allies.

“Afghanistan’s political leaders gave up and fled the country,” Biden said. “The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight.”

US President Joe Biden has claimed he performed poorly at a recent debate because he was “feeling terrible” and had “a really bad cold”. Picture: ABC

Which certainly can’t be said of Biden, an utterly collapsed individual, who is nevertheless fighting like a demon to remain alive, in some form of control and in the White House.

And he’s still blaming everybody and everything else when it all goes wrong.

Even before Biden was finished melting down during a presidential debate that he’d loudly called for and entirely prearranged, the 81-year-old’s campaign team was putting it about that he had a bad cold.

Joe Biden uses the short stairs off Air Force One to prevent embarrassing incidents. Picture: AFP

Sniffing Joe became sniffling Joe.

That excuse didn’t work, so Biden next claimed he’d been done in by a truly epic case of jet lag.

“I wasn’t very smart,” Biden said at a fundraising event following that delirious debate.

“I decided to travel around the world a couple times, going through I don’t know how many time zones …

“And then I came back and nearly fell asleep on stage.“

Two things: When destined for venues overseas, Biden doesn’t exactly ride in the cargo bay of a creaky old de Havilland Comet.

He’s aboard Air Force One, which according to the White House website, provides the US President and his flying friends with some “4000 square feet of floor space on three levels”. Reckon there’d be a comfy bed or two included in all that airborne real estate.

Secondly, Biden didn’t rush directly to the debate site after landing.

He’d returned to the US an entire 12 days prior.

Imagine suffering nearly two weeks of travel-related discombobulation.

Being so exceptionally vulnerable, Biden probably cops a debilitating dose of jet lag every time he walks too quickly across a bridge. Even taking into account the occasional fall.

Again, that excuse didn’t wash.

US President Joe Biden and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections. Picture: AFP

So Biden blamed Trump and his debate “shouting”, which nobody else apparently heard.

“Even when I was answering a question, even though they turned his mic off, he was still shouting,” Biden told an interviewer last week.

“And I let it distract me.”

Well, yes. Loud voices in your head definitely can be distracting, as any crazy person testifying in court will quickly aver. Odd to have a president claim psychological affinity with Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz, but here we are.

The biggest surprise in all of this isn’t Biden’s dementia, which has been evident for years.

It’s that the press are now suddenly surprised by it – or are at least pretending to be surprised.

I mean, they’ve been seeing all the same videos as the rest of us. Back in 2020, for example, then-candidate Biden provided CNN interviewer Dr Sanjay Gupta with a fascinating theory about Covid management.

“Um, you know, there’s a, uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, uh, that, uh, you know, was totally different than a- than the …” Biden said. “It’s called, he called it, the, you know, the World War II, he had the war,” the confused man continued. “The, the War Production Board.”

Dr Gupta happens to be an associate chief of neurosurgery, so he’s no doubt observed similar symptoms over the years.

At one point during Biden’s Roosevelt ramble, Dr Gupta’s expression seemed to turn from neutral to concerned.

But CNN and the rest of the Biden-backing media didn’t say a damn thing.

They just kept pushing their man along, praying he’d keep it together just long enough to defeat Donald Trump.

They can’t pretend any longer that Biden is healthy, however, so the left-wing press is currently in an abandonment phase.

CNN’s Dr Gupta, who didn’t comment four years ago following Biden’s interview battle, now has plenty to say.

“For me as a brain specialist, it was concerning to watch President Joe Biden, and it quickly became clear that I was not alone in my reaction,” Dr Gupta wrote last week.

“I received more than a dozen calls, texts and emails from medical colleagues who, like me, specialise in the brain …

“From a neurological standpoint, we were concerned with his confused rambling, sudden loss of concentration in the middle of a sentence, halting speech and absence of facial animation, resulting at times in a flat, open-mouthed expression.”

We’ve seen it all before. CNN showed it during that 2020 interview.

But only now do Biden’s backers dare speak of his politically disqualifying mental erosion.