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President Biden's reluctance to acknowledge his physical limitations at age 81 is causing some tension on his team, as senior aides and First Lady Jill Biden push him to rest more and be vigilant about his health going into 2024.
Why it matters: Current and former aides say Biden is extraordinarily energetic for his age.
Why, look at the engine on this speedy silver racecar!
But his repeated insistence that he feels so young can draw eye rolls: Some current and former aides believe Biden doesn't realize how old he can come across.
In conversations with aides and friends, Biden frequently says some version of: "I feel so much younger than my age."
I mean, if you look it up on the actuarial tables, I think his age is "deceased" so I guess yeah, he feels a little more spry that that.
Now, if this hasn't been unbelievable enough so far, Axios is going to try to sell you that Basement Biden really, really, really wants to travel and campaign and not spend every fucking (Thursday to Sunday) weekend at his beach house on vacation.
The President of the United States (citation needed) just wants to be out there workin' hard, but his underlings just won't let him!
Zoom in: Current and former Biden aides say he often pushes to do more travel and events than they think he should.
Biden pushing up against his limits sometimes creates a cycle in which he wears himself out, then appears fatigued during public events -- which can increase concerns about his age, even when he's taking on a rigorous schedule.
"He is his own worst enemy when it comes to his schedule," a former Biden aide said.
Joe Biden's schedule consists, almost every day -- and I check it out from time to time -- of sitting in a comfortable chair while someone reads bullet points from the Presidential Daily Briefing, and one -- 1 -- single solitary public event.
That's Biden's hectic, demanding schedule, day-in, day-out: Nap-listening to a briefing, and hanging a fucking medal around someone's neck.
And then back to Reheboth.
But oh! You gotta know, he only "appears" fatigued because this magnificent candle is burning himself at both ends!
Joe "Kid Dynamite" Biden
He gets more done in a week than you get done by Monday 9:07 am.
Doctor Jill is on the case:
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"Joe's working too hard," Jill would tell Biden's then-chief of staff, Steve Ricchetti, Joe Biden recalled in his memoir, "Promise Me, Dad." "He's exhausted. He's not sleeping. It's going to kill him."
Biden wrote that "the two of them would conspire to get me to ease off for a while."
And they're forcing Biden to take a Weekly Vacation. If he had his way, why, he'd actually be working a whole 25 hours per week instead of his customary 12!
Jill's influence on the president's calendar is unusual but has some precedent. Nancy Reagan would closely watch Ronald Reagan's schedule -- even occasionally consulting an astrologist.
Axios is really straining to paint this as common. And to also get in a dig about Nancy Reagan's astrology.
Joe Biden is actually much older than Reagan was, however. Joe Biden was older when he assumed office than Reagan was when he left it.
Ted Kaufman, Biden's longtime friend and another former chief of staff, told Axios: "This is something that Biden's been doing for his whole life -- he always wants to do more."
They are all On-Message, just repeating the same Talking Point to death.
Not even Axios can fail to pick on the subtle message they're conveying.
Some former administration officials think that responding defensively to questions about Biden's age might be satisfying to his fans -- but they say he should acknowledge his age more explicitly to assuage voters' concerns.
One former official told Axios: "His age is clearly something voters are worried about, fairly or not, and yelling, 'Nuh-uh' isn't cutting it."
Biden's like the Energizer Bunny!
Speaking of bunnies: