Joe Biden appeared to wander off during a Medal of Honor ceremony honoring Vietnam a veteran for heroism during that war in the 1960s. It sends the message, taken together with other episodes where Biden wandered off or seemed aloof, that he is too old to be president.
The recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 73 percent of Americans think Biden is too old.
Observers slammed Biden for wandering off from the ceremony before it was finished. After Biden placed the medal around the neck of retired Capt. Larry Taylor, the President abruptly wandered off with a look of confusion on his face. The concluding prayer for the ceremony had not been completed by the time Joe Biden left.
It provided just the latest example of Biden having a possible senior moment.
Joe Biden’s Pattern of Wandering Off
This was not the first time.
In June, Joe Biden wandered off during a live interview with Nicolle Wallace. “Don’t go anywhere,” Wallace said as Biden wandered off the MSNBC set on live television. Even the liberal fact-checking blog Snopes acknowledged Biden’s behavior.
“The video footage was authentic and not taken out of context. It was true that Biden started walking away from the set before Wallace finished cueing a commercial break. She was saying, ‘Mr. President, thank you, thank you very much,’ as he got up from his chair, shook Wallace’s hand, and walked off screen. Wallace also appeared to start to thank him to end the segment just seconds before with another mention of, ‘Mr. President,’ but Biden interjected with one more remark,” Snopes said. “It was unknown why the president left the set when he did. It was also unknown if he received stage directions from other people, whether from his staff or MSNBC producers and, if so, what those instructions entailed. We presented the question to the White House, and we have not heard back.”
Biden Disoriented in Meeting With King Charles III
More embarrassingly, Joe Biden appeared disoriented and lost when he reviewed British troops at Windsor Castle in June. Britain’s King Charles III had to nudge him to know where he had to go. It was noticed by the British press.
“As Charles tried to do the regal thing of gently and subtly steering his guest to avoid the kind of choreographic catastrophe that happened when Trump stepped in front of the late Queen during his visit, forcing her to peer and dodge around him to play catch-up on the parade ground, he quickly found Biden had other plans, leading to two moments when each man was trying to usher the other up onto or off the dais,” body language expert Judi James told U.K. tabloid The Mirror.
Joe Biden’s Pattern of Bizarre Behavior
Last year, former President Barack Obama visited the White House for a ceremony honoring him. Biden appeared dazed and confused at the end of the ceremony and then wandered off the stage and was ignored by those in the room.
More bizarrely Biden walked up to reporters last year and randomly said what some thought was, “My ****’* been wiped.”
Biden’s frequent disorientation and faux pas will no doubt cause some voters to stay home next year instead of voting.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
