The New York Times actually wrote an article tonight covering what they called “fumbles” from Joe Biden on the campaign trail today.
In it they highlight two mistakes from Biden, and one of them pretty huge:
President Biden verbally fumbled during a campaign swing in Florida on Tuesday, confusing the American war in Iraq with the Russian war in Ukraine, and then he fumbled again while he tried to correct himself, misstating how his son Beau died in 2015.
In defending his record on inflation, Mr. Biden was trying to blame rising costs on President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for his invasion of Ukraine, which has roiled international energy markets. It’s a point that he makes regularly in public speeches, but this time he mixed up his geography and history.
“Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing,” Mr. Biden told a crowd during a speech at O.B. Johnson Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., before heading to Miami Gardens for an evening campaign rally with Democratic candidates. He quickly caught his own mistake. “Excuse me,” he said, “the war in Ukraine.”
But as he tried to explain how he mixed up the two wars, he told the audience, “I think of Iraq because that’s where my son died.” In fact, Beau Biden, a military lawyer in the Delaware Army National Guard, served for a year in Iraq. He returned home in 2009 and died of brain cancer in the United States in 2015.
Below is the video of Biden making these gaffes:
The Times goes on to point out that these ‘gaffes’ or ‘fumbles’ have become far more pronounced lately:
Mr. Biden, who at 79 is the oldest president in American history, has a long record of gaffes dating back to when he was a young man. But his misstatements have become more pronounced, and more noticed, now that he has the spotlight of the presidency constantly on him.
It’s not just because he’s president*, it’s because he’s losing his mind.
Seriously, he forgot where his own son died which is as close to home as it gets. If he can’t remember that, or at least correctly state where his son died, it tells us A LOT about his mental state, which has clearly been deteriorating in recent years.
As for the New York Times writing about this, it’s a rare act of journalism. Even if they don’t state it quite like we will, it’s still nice to see them covering it.