The longest-serving president in the country's history, Joe Biden, made official his candidacy to run again in the 2024 elections . The announcement comes at a time when 70% of voters do not want him to be reelected. His main obstacles: his age - he would be 86 years old at the end of his second term - and his successive lapses captured in public.
The White House strongly denies that the president has any health problems that could be a product of his old age. However, his repetitive lapses are disturbing public opinion and raising doubts as to whether he is fit to continue as head of the world's most powerful nation.
Congressman Ronny Jackson, who served as a physician to Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, has repeatedly called for the president to be "cognitively tested."
It doesn't take a neurologist to figure out that he has severe cognitive impairment (...) It's time for the White House staff and the progressive media to stop shielding him from questions about his mental acuity (...) The American people know what's going on here and they don't believe the commander-in-chief is able to do his job.
Biden's most viral lapses
The president has been seen to be disoriented in several speechesIncidents reported by the media on an almost weekly basis include: saying words that do not exist, waving at nothing, mistakenly claiming to have cancer, looking for a dead person in the audience, confusing names or falling asleep at events of global importance:
- America is a great country: in a speech on the White House lawn, Biden declares that "America is a great country that can be defined with a single word...". Subsequently, he utters a non-existent expression: "Asafuthimerfutifuterwigh". The vice president, Kamala Harris, stands still as she listens to him.
Biden: "America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: █████████████" pic.twitter.com/JszBCiiTVD
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 26, 2022
- Let's lick the world: during a speech to Parliament on his visit to Northern Ireland the president not only offered to "lick the world," but asked people to do it with him.
Biden: “Vamos a lamer el mundo. Hagámoslo”. pic.twitter.com/7hASQcc7yC
— Wall Street Wolverine (@wallstwolverine) April 13, 2023
- The clep clep ... Kleptocracy: the president announced the delivery of an aid package for Ukraine. There he tried to pronounce the word "kleptocracy", but failed to pronounce it correctly. He concluded with a self-critical laugh:
Let's seize their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill-gotten gains of the kleptocracy-yes, the kleptocracy and the klep, the guys who are Putin's kleptocracies.
NOW - Biden to seize assets of Russia's kleptocracy. pic.twitter.com/DIuaIsqgMz
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 28, 2022
- Not knowing where to go: his aides constantly try to guide him to the exit when leaving the podium at his speeches or official events. It seems that the president never knows where to go.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, se pierde al dejar el podio en las oficinas de FEMA: Los asistentes intentan frenarlo pero deambula para el lado opuesto a la salida. pic.twitter.com/AJyrUg0ZAz
— ITR Oficial (@ITROriginal) September 29, 2022
- Greeting to nothing: among his most controversial absent-mindedness and confusions, the so-called "phantom hand", nobody knows who Biden greets and always reacts the same way, a few seconds with his hand outstretched, looks around and then continues with the act.
After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking confused pic.twitter.com/ZN00TLdUUo
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 14, 2022
Biden is confused yet again. Who’s he greeting this time? The Ghost of Kiev? pic.twitter.com/G3TZVeRKwq
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 24, 2022
🇺🇸 | Biden volvió a perderse: en una conferencia del Fondo Global, el Presidente de EEUU olvidó dónde estaba, y se mostró desorientado otra vez, generando más dudas sobre su estado de salud real. pic.twitter.com/Tz9Hh3vlPI
— Alt Media (@AltMediaOK) September 23, 2022
-"Jackie, are you here, where's Jackie? I was going to be here. These were the president's words in the middle of a speech while searching the audience for a Republican congresswoman who died in early August.
Biden Asks "Where's Jackie?" -- Forgets Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) Died in August pic.twitter.com/NlI6g0au4N
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 28, 2022
- Putin in the Iranian heartland: In a speech on Capitol Hill showing his support for the Ukrainians in the midst of the Russian invasion, Biden has blurted out the illogical phrase "Putin may surround Kiev with tanks, but he will never win the hearts and minds of the Iranian people."
🔴Biden confunde Ucrania con Irán: ‘Putin nunca ganará los corazones y las almas del pueblo… iraní’#MundoActual #Biden #Putin #Rusia #EEUU #JoeBiden #News #Noticias pic.twitter.com/LjW6yCdayL
— Mundo Actual (@MundoActualESP) March 2, 2022
- Asleep at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit: The leader closed his eyes during an opening speech at the summit, while sitting in his seat, one of his aides had to wake him up.
Joe Biden se duerme durante la cumbre climática pic.twitter.com/XRdPb9e2kp
— Diego de la Cruz (@diegodelacruz) November 1, 2021
-Countless falls: from the bicycle, on the plane, in the street, the president has been seen stumbling many times.
🇺🇸 Tropieza Joe Biden en tres ocasiones y cae en la escalera de abordaje del #AirForce1, cuando se disponía a iniciar su gira a Atlanta.pic.twitter.com/pMo0MUPJjL
— LupitaJuarez (@LupitaJuarezH) March 19, 2021
🇺🇸Biden se cae de la bici durante un paseo por la playa en #Delaware.
Se había parado para saludar a los vecinos y perdió el equilibrio. Se encuentra bien y no necesitó atención médica. pic.twitter.com/qrJDNntY50
— Almudena Ariza (@almuariza) June 19, 2022
- Cancer by mistake: the president seemed to suggest he had cancer, forcing the White House to make a quick clarification denying the disease.
