Our nation faces a serious problem: It’s not just that we don’t know what is going on in the airspace over our country, it’s that we DO know – and, because of that, we do not trust – what’s going on in President Joe Biden’s head. Biden’s remarks with regard to this did nothing to ease that concern – in fact, his remarks make the problem worse.

To begin, what, exactly, is going on in the skies overhead? According to our government, in the space of three days, sophisticated U.S. fighter jets shot down three unidentified aerial “objects” over Alaska, the Yukon territory, and Lake Huron.

In the 65 years that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has existed, no American warplane has ever shot down anything over U.S. territory. Not once. Now it’s happened three times in the space of three days.

We don’t know what they were. We don’t know where they came from. We don’t know what their purpose was. We don’t know if their senders’ intent was hostile. And even after Biden’s seven-minute address to the nation, we still don’t have answers to these and other questions. 

The most important question is, perhaps, the simplest: How does Biden reconcile what he said last Thursday – “Make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety, security and American people, I will take it down” – with the fact that he let a Chinese spy balloon traverse our continent from Alaska to South Carolina for a full week before shooting it down only after its mission was complete? After all, Biden knew it was a Chinese spy balloon because U.S. authorities had been tracking it since it launched from the Chinese island of Hainan. 

For those of us who simply don’t trust Biden, the second most important question is just as simple: If a sharp-eyed civilian hadn’t seen the Chinese spy balloon in the skies over Montana, and if a local newspaper in Montana hadn’t decided to publish the story, would the Biden Administration ever have shared the news about the Chinese Communist Party deciding to threaten our sovereignty and our national security by floating a spy balloon over our nation? Or would the Biden Administration have kept that information from the American people?

Members of the United States Senate have now received two classified briefings since last week on the shoot-downs, and they’ve been left shaking their heads. “My concern now is that the Department of Defense is not sharing that information so that you can compare the data we have on these instances, and the ones we have retroactively from the past,” said Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The concern is bipartisan. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, left the same classified briefing and said, “The American people need and deserve to know more … I think there is a need for greater transparency and more facts to the American people.”

Blumenthal and Rubio are right, of course. The Biden Administration owes the nation more – more information, more truth, more transparency.

The problem is that the American people have no faith in Biden, and no faith in his administration. 

A recent NBC News poll shows why: “[Only] 34% of Americans believe the president is honest and trustworthy, 32% are confident in his ability to handle a crisis, 31% believe Biden is competent and effective as president, 28% believe he has the necessary mental and physical health to be president, and a mere 23% believe he can unite the country.”

Americans don’t trust Joe Biden for two reasons: 

First, many Americans don’t trust him because of his long history of lying whenever it suits his purposes. He got caught lying in his first run for president, way back in 1987, and he’s been lying ever since. 

Second, many Americans don’t trust him because of the failures of his strategies and approaches to issues. His reckless spending policies have led directly to the worst inflation in 40 years, the equivalent of imposing a huge national sales tax on everyone – including those who make less than $400,000 per year, contrary to his campaign promise; an adherence to a radical environmental theology that sacrificed American energy independence on the altar of “climate change”; a reversal of immigration policy that created a crisis on the southern border that’s led to a five-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrants crossing into our country, and vastly increased the importation of the deadly fentanyl that’s now causing a spike in drug overdose deaths; a surge of violent crime in America’s major cities; and a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that revealed our president’s weakness to our international adversaries, which emboldened them to take aggressive actions against American interests around the world.

And yet, even as his failures are manifest, he continues to lie, as he did in his State of the Union address, where he gaslit his audience by describing a nation totally at odds with the one in which the rest of us live. 

Sadly, we’re not going to be able to solve this problem as long as Joe Biden is president, because the problem is inherent to Biden himself.