I’ve noticed a strange tic that President Biden’s most preposterous apologists often exhibit when they’re talking about his age. Not content with insisting that the president is still up to the job, many of Biden’s defenders like to insist that, actually, he is physically more up to the job than a younger person would be. Enter Jill Biden, with the best example yet:

“How many 30-year-olds could” do that, asks Jill? Er, are there any that couldn’t? Which part of what Jill Biden describes is supposed to be difficult for a 30-year-old? Is it the flying to Poland on Air Force One? The getting on a train? The traveling across Europe? The meeting with a foreign leader? What?

Many of the Founders served abroad in their 30s, in an era in which it took months to cross the ocean — if you even made it. John Quincy Adams was doing stuff like this when he was thirteen. After World War II broke out, my grandfather marched great distances across the world in his late 20s. Who on earth does Jill Biden think she’s kidding?