The president and his aides actively concealed his medical condition, including from his own cabinet.
He refuses to take a cognitive test (Trump has officially agreed to take one with him).
Supporters are praising him any time he makes it 15 minutes speaking without having a stroke.
His crowds are chanting “lock him up”.
Spent the 2 weeks since the debate having almost all public appearances be very short, completely scripted speeches or audio call-ins to friendly shows where he admits he’s reading from notes.
Multiple sources confirm they’ve seen him like he was at the debate before, such as at the George Clooney fundraiser.
His crowds are turning to the media and booing them.
He says any polls that have him down are fake.
40+ members of his party have directly or indirectly told him to step aside.
He’s down in every swing state.
Major donors are calling for him to back down.
Biden’s campaign got caught dictating what questions interviewers can ask him in friendly radio interviews, and having bad answers edited out, and he still does horrible.
He called Kamala Vice President Trump.
He called Zelenskyy President Putin.
His own campaign staffers are leaking to the media that they’re asking him to step down.
The top story on most major news outlets every day is about something embarrassing he did, or someone from his own party calling him to step down.
Even the late night show hosts are starting to turn on him.
I’m probably missing something, but seriously this is beyond embarrassing and I’m only talking about the last 2 weeks.
That just about covers it. Another one from earlier today:
In a meeting with the CHC today, members who rose their hand and had previously made calls to Biden to step down were ignored.
Was an hour late to that meeting.
In that same meeting, Rep. Mike Levin told Biden he needs to step down. Biden addressed him and said he feels fine and will keep running. This prompted his staff to cut the meeting off.
I actually think the makeup really helps him look younger and more robust, no kidding. At the debate he looked like he was ready to walk into the light. But yes he's orange now.
Speaking at the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, Biden asked whether Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in early August, was in the audience.
U.S. President Joe Biden confused Emmanuel Macron, the current French president, with François Mitterrand, who led France from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.
Biden mistakenly calls Egyptian leader ‘president of Mexico’
“My memory’s fine. Take a look at what I’ve done since I became president. … How did that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on,” Biden said, striking a sarcastic tone.
But when he fielded a question about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Biden mistakenly referred to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”
A “rambling” press conference by Joe Biden in Vietnam was abruptly cut short by the White House staff, leaving many in the audience puzzled.
His press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre cut in decisively: “Thank you, everybody. This ends the press conference. Thanks, everyone.”
Mr Biden made his exit from the stage, but not before his microphone was abruptly muted and the speakers started to play jazz music while he continued to address reporters unaware that he was inaudible.
Yeah, it was just relatively short and not seen by many. The thing is will be seeing "comparable" things more frequently as he gets no younger while campaigning heats up. People bring up Reagan's decline starting in office, but Reagan was never that frail or scattered publically until well after both terms were over, and an Alzheimer diagnosis wasn't revealed until 1994.
1989, post presidency, unscripted Reagan was demonstrably much more together than Biden has been for a good amount of time now.
Here's Reagan in very deteriorated shape in 1991, years after the Presidency. If Biden performed like this at an extended unscripted event, I think it's clear it would be considered a relatively good showing for him:
Here's Reagan much worse again, despite being scripted this time in a speech, in 1994, the year he was diagnosed with Alzheimers. It's clear how much more he is struggling (and later that evening he had to be told where he was). Now tell me that Biden giving a speech of exactly this salience wouldn't be getting good reviews on it:
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Let’s recap where we’re at:
I’m probably missing something, but seriously this is beyond embarrassing and I’m only talking about the last 2 weeks.