Excuses abound after Obama escorts Biden offstage following another apparent display of decrepitude



President Joe Biden was downtown Los Angeles Saturday evening raising money, but once again, he managed to raise concern about his cognitive decline.

A Quinnipiac University poll found earlier this year that the super-majority of likely voters think Biden is too old to effectively serve another term as president. If re-elected, he would conclude his term at the age of 86 — roughly twelve years higher than the average life expectancy for the American man. According to a Rasmussen Reports survey conducted late last month, concerns over the 81-year-old Democrat's decrepitude have not gone away, with 57% of likely voters indicating that Biden's mental decline was worsening.

Biden has, after all, provided his critics with plenty of fodder in recent weeks and years, evidencing difficulty completing sentences despite leaning into his heavy reliance on cue cards; struggling to stay upright; repeating himself and telling the same debunked anecdote twice over, nearly word for word and in short succession; mistaking the living for the dead and his sister for his wife; confusing the names of disparate nations; spending roughly 40% of his presidency out of office; and showcasing difficulties controlling his temper.

On Saturday, Biden was joined by former President Barack Obama and a handful of professional script readers, including George Clooney, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Bateman, and Julia Roberts, at the Peacock Theater, where they raised over $30 million for his re-election campaign, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Democratic mega donor Jeffrey Katzenberg, a cochair of Biden's re-election campaign, hyped the event in advance, noting, "The enthusiasm and commitment for Biden-Harris couldn't be stronger. We all understand this is the most important election of our lifetime."

'Obama then grabs Biden's hand to lead him offstage.'

With Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom (Calif.) and other leftist lawmakers looking on, Biden, fresh off visiting his criminally convicted son, once again recycled the false claim that former President Donald Trump advised people to inject bleach during the pandemic as well as the false flag narrative concerning Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. He also likened Trump to Julius Caesar, a politician assassinated by a cabal of other politicians.

After Biden and Obama finished their seated interview with Kimmel, the two stood for applause. Footage shared by Chris Gardner of the Hollywood Reporter shows Biden frozen in place with his hand raised in what appears to be a halted wave. After a pregnant moment, he pivots slightly into another static pose, at which point his predecessor grabs his wrist and gently escorts him offstage.

Gardner noted in his caption, "Barack Obama and President Joe Biden offer final waves to Peacock Theater crowd as Obama then grabs Biden's hand to lead him offstage following 40-minute conversation with Jimmy Kimmel."

Multitudes of users on X expressed pity and concern over the president's apparent decline. Piers Morgan, among them, wrote, "So embarrassing. The Democrats can't let this go on, surely?"

Biden boosters desperately attempted to spin this latest apparent signal of decrepitude caught on video as a hoax.

White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates was especially prickled by the New York Post's description of the incident, tweeting, "Fresh off being fact checked by at least 6 mainstream outlets for lying about @POTUS with cheap fakes, Rupert Murdoch's sad little super pac, the New York Post, is back to disrespecting it's readers & itself once again. Their ethical standards could deal with a little unfreezing."

Bates appears to have been referencing recent reports indicating that Biden confusedly wandered off at the G7 summit in Apulia, Italy, during a parachute exercise and that he also locked up at the White House's Juneteenth event — both of which were caught on camera.

Gun-control activist David Hogg claimed the Saturday video seen by millions of people "did not happen and is a total lie," prompting a "like" from Democratic propagandist Mark Hamill.

'They think you're stupid.'

Ukrainian blogger Olga Nesterova shared heavily edited footage of the final moments of the event, presenting an alternative account of what supposedly happened.

Biden "influencer" Harry Sisson noted, "MAGA IS LYING AGAIN. The new lie is that Biden had to be 'led off stage' by Obama and that he 'froze' but that is COMPLETELY FALSE! This video shows what actually happened and is not some selectively edited garbage. The lies don’t stop from MAGA."

Whereas the Hollywood Reporter video was apparently uncut, Sisson elected to share the heavily edited version shared by Nesterova.

RNC Research tweeted, "Don't believe your LYING EYES, the Biden White House says. Didn't happen! He's TOTALLY WITH IT, his incompetent stooges say — you just never get to see it. They think you're stupid."

The Washington Post and the Daily Beast are among the liberal publications that joined Obama in coming to Biden's rescue. The Post, which has struggled with the truth in recent years, claimed, "The use of these clips is an especially pernicious couple of examples of manipulated video — what we label 'isolation' under our guide to manipulated video — because it's intended to create a false narrative that doesn’t reflect the event as it occurred. The RNC and its avid followers in the conservative media earn Four Pinocchios."

Self-guided or not, Biden's disapproval rating sits at 58% according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. His approval rating, alternatively, was 40%; 54% of respondents said that Biden's health and age will "severely limit his ability to do the job" if re-elected; 25% said they would have "little effect on his ability to do his job." Only 11% said they would have no impact at all.

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Biden apparently has a new favorite alternate history: His uncle was devoured by cannibals



President Joe Biden has long had an issue disentangling fact from fiction — and when dealing with facts, the 81-year-old Democrat often gets them wrong.

This week, Biden claimed that his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., was eaten by cannibals. It is unclear whose story the geriatric president has appropriated on his uncle's behalf, but the U.S. government's official record does not support the story Biden has now elected to tell on at least two occasions.

Speaking to reporters a Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Biden said: "Ambrose Finnegan — we called him 'Uncle Bosie' — he — he was shot down. He was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force. He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn't make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time."

"They never recovered his body," added Biden. "But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like."

Biden has a new story: Uncle Bosey got shot down in a plane and was possibly eaten by African cannibals.
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According to the Department of Defense's Prisoner of War/Missing In Action Accounting Agency, Biden's uncle was flying a two-engine Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber on May 14, 1944. Whereas the president suggested it had been shot down, the government record indicates the plane "was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast" for "unknown reasons."

"Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash," said the official record. "One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members."

The Associated Press reported that the U.S. government's record of missing service members "does not attribute Finnegan's death to hostile action or indicate cannibals were any factor."

At a campaign event earlier in the day, Biden addressed workers at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Scranton, Pennsylvania. During the largely mumbled speech, Biden said his uncle "got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there are a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea."

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In both instances, the apparent purpose of the anecdote was to segue into a slight at former President Donald Trump.

When speaking about his uncle at the airport, Biden said, "And what I was thinking about when I was standing [where Finnegan was memorialized] was when Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris, and he said they were a bunch of 'suckers' and 'losers.'"

This claim, too, is unsubstantiated.

Snopes indicated that there is no audio or video evidence that Trump ever said fallen soldiers were "suckers" and "losers." There is also no "documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes" to support the allegations that Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic advanced in a September 2020 article.

In his ostensibly baseless article, Goldberg — the Democratic booster whom the New York Times indicated in 2016 had "shaped The Atlantic's recent editorial endorsing Hillary Clinton for President" —cited "people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day."

Trump said of the allegations, "I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more. No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?"

John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both with Trump at the time, indicated the claims were false.

In effect, in crossing two yarns Tuesday in hopes of hurting his political rival, Biden demonstrated only his loose grasp on the truth, which appears to have slackened greatly in recent years.

In February, Biden discussed a recent chat he had with François Mitterrand. The trouble was not so much Biden's suggestion that Mitterrand was a German, but that the former French president has been dead since 1996.

The apparent ghost whisperer has also regaled supporters on multiple occasions with the tale of his impossible conversation with an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri, which apparently took place 20 years after the man's retirement and a year after his death.

After eulogizing Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in 2022, Biden called out to her during a speech in Washington, saying, "Representative Jackie — are you here? Where's Jackie? — I think she was going to be here."

Last year, Biden confused Ukraine and Iraq twice in 24 hours. Neither nation likely took it to heart, granted the apparent leader of the free world has also confused his own sister with his wife.

Although it was treated as a simple case of brazen plagiarism at the time, Biden also mistook the life story of former U.K. Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock when running for president in 1988.

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Biden insists he wants to get Lincoln quote right — then suffers yet another malfunction



President Joe Biden made a point Friday of trying to get an Abraham Lincoln quote right when addressing members of the National Governors Association at the White House. Despite his best efforts and having the notes at his fingertips, the 81-year-old Democrat bungled his reference to the Republican president's first inaugural address, once again providing fodder to those critical of his advanced age.

Governors from over 40 states and territories joined Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and various cabinet members Friday for the NGA Winter Meeting. The NGA indicated that those assembled discussed possible bipartisan solutions to some of the various issues now confronting the American people, including housing affordability, AI risks, and disaster response.

After kicking off his brief remarks with an ethnic jibe, suggesting, "I may be the only Irishman you ever met that's never had a drink," Biden noted the portrait of President Abraham Lincoln looming behind him.

"You know, standing here in front of this portrait of the man behind me here, he — he said — and I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right," said Biden. "He said, ''The better angel.' He said, 'We must address the counsel — and adjust the better angels of our nature.'"

"And we do well to remember what else he said," continued Biden. "He said, 'We're not enemies, but we're friends.' This is the middle of, in the part of the Civil War. He said, 'We're not enemies, we're friends. We must not be enemies.'"

Contrary to Biden's suggestion, Lincoln issued his first inaugural address prior to the Civil War on March 4, 1861, stating, "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

After struggling with the quote, Biden quipped about his advanced age, saying, "Folks, I've been around, I know I don't look it, I've been around a long while."

Biden went on to bemoan the bitterness of politics, claiming that "politics has gotten too personally [sic]."

Just days earlier, the Democratic president indicated that he prefers his segregationist mentors to present-day House Republicans whom he stressed are worse than "real racists."

Biden completely malfunctions as he tries \u2014 and fails miserably \u2014 to read a quote from "the man behind me here"
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Unable to turn back time, Biden and his campaign have repeatedly appealed to humor in hopes of defusing concerns about his advanced age. Those concerns have not, however, gone away.

A Quinnipiac University poll revealed last week that 67% of likely voters think Biden is too old to effectively serve another term as president. By way of contrast, 57% of voters said that former President Donald Trump, only four years Biden's junior, is not too old to effectively serve again as president.

If re-elected, Biden would start his second term at the age of 82 and conclude his term at the age of 86 — roughly twelve years higher than the average life expectancy for the American man.

62% of voters told Quinnipiac that Biden lacks the necessary physical fitness; 64% said the Democratic president lacks the mental acuity.

Blaze News previously reported that Biden will not take a cognitive test as part of his upcoming annual physical.

Between the new polling numbers and Biden's latest gaffe, Democrats appear keen to once again paint a happy picture.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, 56, told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Biden's advanced age is an asset.

After suggesting Biden's first three years in office were a "master class," Newsom claimed that "it is because of his age that he's been so successful."

Newsom further credited "the wisdom and the character" that Biden has developed over his many decades in politics for the various policies Democrats have been able to drive through in Washington since 2021.

The California governor was not the only Democrat to defend Biden in the face of concerns over his age in recent days.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasted the New York Times Wednesday for daring to ask questions about Biden's mental and physical fitness.

During a press gaggle aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, Jean-Pierre quoted a leftist blogger's sense that "'the Times and other major media outlets ought to look in the mirror.'" Quoting Margaret Sullivan's Substack post further, Jean-Pierre added, "'Self-scrutiny and course correction are not among big media's core strengths.'"

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Robert De Niro botches speech, bashes Trump, then lashes out at those he was there to thank



Robert De Niro was supposed to do what he does best Monday night when taking the stage at the Gotham Awards in New York City: read off a script, celebrate his own work, and glad-hand with Hollywood elites. Instead, he botched his remarks, reflexively attacked former President Donald Trump, and expressed contempt for those he was supposed to thank.

The Oscar-winning script reader introduced the Gotham Historical Icon and Creator Tribute award for Martin Scorsese's new film, "Killers of the Flower Moon," in which he stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

Relying upon a teleprompter, De Niro, long a Hollywood proponent of the debunked Russian collusion narrative, said: "Watching the news these days makes one think, from a political point of view anyway, that we actually are living in a post-truth society. Filmmakers, on the other hand, at least aim for the truth."

"We have no agenda other than to engage, enlighten and entertain," continued De Niro, who previously stressed to propagandist Michael Moore that the former president needed to be humiliated and revealed to Stephen Colbert his desire to star in a favorable film about disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

After setting up filmmakers as neutral paragons of virtue, the octogenarian began to grow visibly confused, slurring words and stumbling through his delivery.

Vanity Fair reported that in a portion of the speech De Niro delivered, which appears to have been trimmed out of the video posted to the Gotham Film and Media Institute YouTube page, De Niro paused to say, "I'm sorry. Okay, there was a mistake in this. I'll keep going. Just keep scrolling."

Later, De Niro circled back to account for his apparent difficulty in reading off the teleprompter, saying, "I just want to say one thing. The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out. I didn't know about it and I want to read it."

De Niro then launched into a tirade denouncing "alternative facts" and "conspiracy theories."

Besides suggesting that "young students are taught that slaves developed skills which could be applied for their personal benefit" in Florida and denigrating the late anti-communist actor John Wayne, De Niro returned to an old crutch — criticizing Trump.

"The former president lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office, and he's keeping up the pace in his current campaign of retribution," said De Niro, just minutes after discounting the possibility that those in his industry have an agenda to advance. "But with all his lies, he can't hide his soul. He attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature, and shows disrespect, for example, by using Pocahontas as a slur."

Trump has in recent years referred to Democratic Sen Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) as "Pocahontas" because she, along with various other leftists including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sacheen Littlefeather, and Hollywood producer Heather Rae long benefited from pretending to be Indian.

Rediscovering the point in his speech where he previously choked, De Niro said, "So I'm gonna say these things, but to Apple and thank them and all that, Gotham, blah, blah, blah, Apple, but who — I don't feel like thanking them at all for what they did. How dare they do that actually."

The film, which Variety indicated would be "branded a flop" if treated as a traditional studio release on account of its failure to yet become profitable, is an Apple Studios production distributed in part through Apple TV+.

Neither Apple nor the Gotham Awards appear to have responded to Vanity Fair's requests for comment.

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Biden falls farther into decrepitude and in the polls



President Joe Biden kicked off his 81st trip around the sun with his lowest-ever approval rating since taking office.

According to a national NBC News poll published Sunday, 40% of registered voters approve and 57% of voters disapprove of the geriatric Democrat's performance

Rasmussen Reports painted a slightly rosier picture for Biden on his birthday, indicating he has an approval rating of 42% and a disapproval rating of 56%.

While America's oldest president ever to haunt the Oval Office has been deeply unpopular for months, Biden has begun to hemorrhage support from previously staunch defenders. In September, 46% of voters in the 18-to-34 age category signaled approval for the president. According to the NBC national poll, that rating has dropped to 31%.

Biden appears to have taken a significant hit over his various foreign policy blunders as well as for his support of Israel, which radicals in his own party have taken issue with. 51% of Democratic voters figure Israel has gone too far in its war with Hamas. Only 27% of Democratic voters figure Israel's actions are justified.

"Joe Biden is at a uniquely low point in his presidency, and a significant part of this, especially within the Biden coalition, is due to how Americans are viewing his foreign policy actions," Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, told NBC News.

Biden's loss of support is not occurring in a vacuum.

Former President Donald Trump was trailing Biden as of September in a head-to-head matchup according to the NBC News poll. Now, even with 91 criminal charges and a hostile media against him, Trump has a two-point lead.

Biden maintains advantages over Trump with black voters, women, and college graduates, whereas Trump leads by vast margins with white voters, men, and rural voters. Apparently, this breakdown serves the former president well in key battleground states.

A New York Times and Siena College poll revealed earlier this month that Trump had a significant edge in five of the six most important battleground states, leading by approximately five points in Arizona; six points in Georgia; five points in Michigan; 10 points in Nevada; and four points in Pennsylvania.

Although the Democratic Party's anti-Israeli contingent may have weighed Biden down in the latest NBC poll, it appears his age is also causing him to stumble politically.

A mid-September Reuters/Ipsos poll, which similarly showed Trump leading in critical swing states, revealed that 77% of respondents, including 65% of Democrats, figured Biden was too old to be president. Only 39% of respondents suggested Biden had the mental sharpness to do his job.

A Wall Street Journal poll similarly suggested that the supermajority of Democratic voters figured Biden was far too old to seek a second term.

These concerns appeared to have matured along with the president.

A CNN survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire revealed last week that 56% of Democratic primary voters noted age was their biggest concern regarding Biden.

Biden, who indicated last October that he "could drop dead tomorrow," has provided cynics with plenty of reasons to doubt his ability. Beyond spending well over a year of his presidency on vacation, Biden has shown significant trouble remaining upright, having publicly fallen on numerous occasions; communication issues, struggling with simple words, confusing names, and repeating himself ostensibly for no rhetoricical benefit; and an apparent need for cue cards for instructions on how to execute basic functions.

If Democrats find it in themselves to help re-elect Biden, he will begin his second term at 82 and end at the age of 86. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, American men can expect to live 73.2 years.

Vice President Kamala Harris, similarly struggling with a low approval rating, made clear in September that "every vice president — every vice president — understands that when they take the oath, that they must be very clear about the responsibility they may have to take over the job of being president. I am no different."

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