Biden's meandering message in Europe
For decades, Joe Biden was known as a glib speaker. These days, he’s more like an aggressively weird word chef, tossing unrelated ingredients together into a strange bowl of thoughts. Step right up, Americans, and get yourself a sample of the presidential word salad!
A German reporter this week asked President Biden a bizarre question about how, assuming he is defeated when he runs for re-election, possibly by Donald Trump, he would stop the next president from undoing things he has done. Biden’s answer should have been, “That’s not how this works. Ex-presidents don’t get to tell their successors what to do, sorry. Re-elect me!” Instead, he wandered around for hundreds of words of barely intelligible stream-of-consciousness remarks:
“I don’t think you’ll find any European leader who thinks that I am not up to the job. And I mean that sincerely. It’s not like, ‘Whoa …’ It’s that — that — the point is that when — the first G7 meeting I attended, like the one I did today, was in Great Britain. And I sat down, and I said, ‘America is back. And one of the — one of my counterparts, colleagues, a head of state, said, ‘For how long? For how long?’ ”
Biden wound up concluding, “But the next election, I’d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me.”
The media spun this loopy, defensive digression as “Biden torches Trump on world stage, talks trash about 2024,” or “Joe Biden shades Donald Trump’s 2024 hopes without even mentioning his name.” (Back in the real world, the average of the last three polls show Trump beating Biden by an average of three points.)
Suddenly the reporters are masters of paraphrase: Media Joe Biden is tough, clear and macho.
Actual Joe Biden is whispery, weird and befuddled.
About food shortages: “And we both talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food. Food shortages.”
About a hypothetical Putin use of chemical weapons? “It would re- — it would trigger a response in kind, whether or not — you’re asking whether NATO would cross; we’d make that decision at the time,” said Biden, according to the official transcript at WhiteHouse.gov.
The media massaged this by extracting a single word and building around it headlines such as “Biden says U.S. would ‘respond’ to Russia if Putin uses chemical or biological weapons.” Erm, he didn’t actually mean this business about responding “in kind,” said his national security adviser.
Even when Biden is reading off a prompter, he says things like “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,” at the State of the Union speech. (The White House tweeted a falsified version of this, substituting “Ukrainian” for “Iranian.”)
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Democrats with press passes keep trying to translate Bidenisms into a coherent message. BTW, these are some of the same people who repeat the "fine people" lie about Trump and the riots in Charlottesville. It is another reason wh they have lost the trust of much of America.
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