Joe Biden: President in Name Only Since Inauguration

As if his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and his persistent refusal to take responsibility weren’t severe enough, new reports reveal that Joe Biden compelled grieving military families to endure hours of waiting on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base while he took a nap on Air Force One.

We already knew that he continuously checked his watch and focused on himself during meetings with the families of 13 military personnel lost to a suicide bombing amid the tumultuous evacuation from Kabul in August 2021.

This latest revelation adds an additional layer of insensitivity to the narrative.

Biden has long been recognized for his habitual tardiness, a trend that began well before the onset of his cognitive challenges. World leaders at the recent G20 summit finally grew tired of waiting for him and proceeded with their group photo without him.

Such an act epitomized a “lame duck” scenario and the disdain for the so-called leader of the free world.

At 82, Biden has effectively been a lame duck throughout his presidency. The thoughtless three-hour delay of the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover symbolizes his administration.

Now that his influence has diminished, his stumbling and mumbling have become noteworthy. Despite this newspaper documenting his decline in real time while being accused by the White House of ageism and “cheap fakes,” we are now expected to be surprised by the “bombshell” revelation that the White House was concealing his issues.

The worst scandal in White House history is also the worst-kept secret in Washington.

Left his Cabinet to suffer

Biden conducted only nine Cabinet meetings over four years, compared to Trump’s 25, as reported by The Wall Street Journal last week. White House staff frequently rescheduled national security briefings whenever Biden was experiencing a “bad day.”

He’s scarcely engaged with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the past two years, a critical period marked by the crises in Ukraine and Gaza, while the military has faced a series of humiliating setbacks, from Afghanistan to the disastrous Gaza pier incident and the friendly-fire downing of a U.S. Navy fighter jet in the Red Sea.

During his recent travels to Africa and South America, Biden managed a total of just 15 words to the press pool accompanying him.

Since his inauguration, he has functioned primarily as a president in name only (PINO).

The Constitution provides for addressing such issues with the 25th Amendment.

However, the challenge lies in the fact that it requires individuals of integrity to activate it. The deceitful aides surrounding Biden, including his ambitious wife, have been enjoying the abuse of his presidential powers too much.

They rationalized their misconduct by permitting the president some leeway on his “good days.” Given that Biden was an incompetent figure even in his prime, severe repercussions for both America and the global community were unavoidable.

Indeed, the media and Democrats played a role in masking Biden’s evident cognitive decline. Nonetheless, we must ensure that this newly sanctioned narrative does not absolve him of responsibility.

Biden lacked the capacity to run for president in 2020, yet vanity, delusional self-confidence, and a self-serving family thrust him into the spotlight, with a corrupt party orchestrating a basement campaign to elevate him to the presidency.

He was already showing signs of decline during the campaign trail in early 2020 in Iowa and New Hampshire, consistently late and reading his speeches from a teleprompter.

Yet he managed to have enough “good days” to comprehend what he was doing when he entered the Oval Office and enacted orders to reverse Trump-era border policies, abandon Bagram Air Base, defy the Supreme Court, escalate inflation, weaken the military, project a sense of weakness to adversaries, pressure the DOJ to shield his wayward son, and employ lawfare against political opponents, all while delivering divisive rhetoric attacking half the nation.

That behavior was quintessentially Biden. The same individual who notably participated in his family’s influence-peddling scheme as vice president was also coherent enough to stick it to coup plotters Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama when he appointed unelectable Kamala Harris as his successor last July. Now, in a similar vein of spite and ill will, he and his wife have been giving Harris the cold shoulder at public events.

Legacy of a failure

The electorate was deprived of the chance to reject Biden at the polls when he was swapped out at the last moment for his ineffective VP. However, her defeat was reflective of his own.

There is an increasing sentiment to hold Harris and the rest of Biden’s aides accountable for his presidency’s shortcomings. How this accountability can be achieved is still unclear. Yet, he cannot use his diminishing capacities as a shield. He must shoulder most of the blame.

In a recent interview with the left-leaning Meidas Touch, Biden displayed his characteristic delusion when asked how he wished to be remembered: “I kept my word — that when I said I was going to do something, I did it.”

Don’t fall for Tammany Joe’s final con.