While Joe Biden frequently struggles to speak, rarely has his inability been as evident to a nonpartisan observer as it was on Sunday while the president addressed the press at a junket in Hanoi, Vietnam. Looking to stem the bleeding, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stepped in to end the conference as Biden grimaced and mumbled through the end of a stemwinder defending his use of the term “lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
Donald Judd reports for CNN:
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sunday abruptly ended a news conference with President Joe Biden in Hanoi, Vietnam, at one point taking a microphone and announcing the event had concluded even as the president was still answering questions from reporters in the room.
As the president was responding to shouted questions from the press, Jean-Pierre took to the microphone to announce, “Thank you everybody — this ends the press conference.” Biden remained on stage briefly following her announcement, responding to one additional question, though his full answer was inaudible.
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Does anyone know what President Biden is talking abt?" "The Indian looks at John Wayne and points to the Union soldier and says, 'He's a lying, dog-faced pony soldier!' Well, there's a lot of lying, dog-faced pony soldiers out there about global warming"pic.twitter.com/t99MnDd6Mf
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 10, 2023
But we’ve known the man’s muddled chuntering for as long as he was a viable 2020 candidate. As I wrote in “Joe Biden Was Never Up to the Task” in 2021:
In front of a press who questioned him as if they were visiting him during lunch hour at Shady Rest, President Biden appeared confused and exhausted — eventually resorting to resting his head on the binder in front of him. It was pitiful and makes the press’s job nigh impossible; how can one hold the “Leader of the Free World” to account when he can’t even hold himself up? Asking tough, insightful questions of him makes the journalist appear cruel.
Biden’s tragicomic presidency exists because Trump’s presidency existed first. If Biden stole the election through some deception, part of the deception was that he sold himself as a nonentity and has since signed legislation and occasionally said things — approximating a real president. An empty suit à la Dr. Seuss’s “Pale Green Pants” would probably have earned 5 million more votes than Joe. But Joe was pants-proximate, so he won.
Joe Biden is the reactionary result of nominating and electing a man who is 8 percent more unappealing than he is attractive. The electorate has reaped what it sowed, and what it sowed was idiocy — what a harvest we’ve had of the same.