President Joe Biden and his team keep trying to come up with excuses for his condition after it was exposed at the debate. His latest is that he was tired from a foreign trip.
A trip that ended two weeks before the debate and led right into a weeklong vacation for Biden, complete with scheduled afternoon naps.
This is the post-debate spin Biden went with in a private fundraiser, telling donors that he “wasn’t very smart” because he “decided to travel around the world a couple of times … shortly before the debate.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also used this excuse, coupling Biden’s foreign travel with his supposed “cold” as reasons he looked like an 81-year-old man during the debate.
Biden is referring to his trip to Europe for the anniversary of D-Day and the G7 summit. The problem with this is that Biden was back in Los Angeles for a fundraiser on June 15, 12 days before the debate, and was in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 11 days before the debate. Therefore, Biden’s excuse for performing poorly in the debate is that his foreign trip left him incompetent and tired for nearly two weeks, which is not exactly a glowing endorsement of his ability to serve as president.
Worse still, though, is that Biden was this tired after his foreign trip, which, again, apparently had him out of commission for two weeks, despite the fact that he took a weeklong vacation upon returning and called it debate preparation. Biden disappeared to Camp David for a week for a debate schedule that apparently didn’t start before 11 a.m. and reportedly included scheduled afternoon naps. That is how much that one foreign trip apparently took out of Biden.
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If that is the case, on what planet is it justifiable that Biden should continue serving as president, let alone be asking voters for another four years in office? It doesn’t matter how many time zones you cross. Most people don’t suffer from jet lag for 12 days, especially when they then take a weeklong vacation before returning to work. How could Biden be so jetlagged for 12 days that he couldn’t even get through a 90-minute debate?
No one truly believes this excuse, not even Biden and his team. The reality is that Biden’s advanced age and deteriorating mental faculties mean he cannot keep up with the presidency. He has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation, can’t do live press conferences, and can’t work past 4 p.m. The problem isn’t jet lag or some phantom “cold.” The problem is that Biden is unfit for the job.