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I haven’t taken a scientific look, but I believe that, so far, Joe Biden is the most relatively invisible president we’ve had. Seven weeks into his term he has yet to hold a news conference or give a national address. (He’s scheduled to give his first on Thursday).
When we catch a glimpse of him, he sometimes seems willing to take questions, but seems to get cut off by handlers.
Does this worry you?
I’ve heard some people say they are fine with it and just appreciate the lack of drama after a tumultuous four years with President Trump.
I wonder what the international headlines would look like if, as President, it were Trump who was “avoiding the press,” making few public appearances, and reading occasional proof-of-life statements from a teleprompter. I wonder what stories, rumors and speculation would have been leaked to the press. Surely there would have been demands for Trump to complete mental and physical evaluations, and release the findings to the public; and invoke the 25th amendment to remove him.
Are you worried?
Or happy to have presidential drama not hitting the daily news?
No. Because it is more transparent this way–we know their agenda, and he’s just a strawman. It would be more concerning if he was coherent, running all over the world, and glibly appealing to our YOUTH. Harris is concerning. Pelosi is concerning. But no, the puppet can stay this way where we can keep an eye on him, buying us time to work 24/7 behind the scenes to rescue our election system, and our country.
Get out your wallets people. We now have 1.9 Trillion dollars to pay for with prices and taxes skyrocketing! Invisible presidents don’t have to be held accountable answering any questions. I never was into politics but even I can see that Socialism is here.
My Bigger concern is that BIDEN is nothing but a SHINY object-
Definitely MSM, dnc , uniparty conglomerate are doing everything to keep entire Focus on someone who is completely irrelevant and doesn’t have a clue to what’s really happening .
It’s one of the effects of the vaccine. NVIC said so.
I am relatively new to reading your work and really appreciate a lot of your reporting Sharyl, and yet some of it does not align with your tagline, and often feels quite partisan. Your feelings definitely showing through in many cases. I just finished Slanted and it was great but I had to keep reminding myself that your intent was to focus on media behavior and not on defending Trump, which is what it often felt like.
As far as this issue, it is concerning to me and I’m very curious about it for sure.
I don’t care about Biden, he was given “something” to play pretend president. It’s Obama behind the operation and he’s the one we should be talking about and impeaching!
I have often fantasized about Biden’s call to Kamala to ask her to be his running mate.
Ring, ring.
Kamala: “Hello.”
Biden, “Hey, Kamala. How would you like to be president?”
No one would be worried if Biden seemed cogent. It does leave us with the feeling he is being sequestered and is not in control. I do fear where the nation is headed. My children and grandchildren are not living in the country I grew up in.
Honestly do not care about Biden. I want his mental deficiencies to be on display for ALL of the world, but other than that, we know he’s not calling the shots. He can’t call his own Presser.
I’m very concerned. As some have said, who is calling the shots? It is frightening that the man with the power is just a puppet and those pulling the strings surely don’t feel the accountability or compassion that a visible leader would. People will do bad things when there is no accountability.
What scares me is who is really running the show? When he recently asked Speaker Pelosi at the end of a meeting if it was alright if he took questions, that’s telling. From inauguration day, when he listened to but didn’t obey the voices in his head by saying “Salute the Marines,” until now he has proven that he can only think in 15-second sound bites. If Pelosi and Harris are really in charge, we’re doomed.
I wish he were more invisible than he already is.
It has been evident that Biden has diminished capacity since early in the campaign. The fact that media and democratic party has attempted to hide the fact is scary.. The number of people deceived by the Narrative does not bode well for our future..
Nothing hate filled from me. He is busy signing all those EOs (some I wish he would not) and setting us on the path to re-open and get folks working again. There is much to fix given how their agenda was slowed by the last administration.
Opposition is not hate. This is a false equivalency modeled and pushed by people who either lack a substantive argument, or the eloquence to defend their point of view. My opinion of Joe Biden is based on my own observation of his dwindling power of cognition, visible for many months before his election (when he was actually allowed to appear briefly in public, always propped up by teleprompters or in many cases, as well as currently, by intensive video editing. If you want to see this in full display, look closely at his “weekly Conversation” videos on Youtube.” They are most emphatically NOT conversations. He speaks only in short phrases, and the camera cutaways and edits are glaringly obvious. He cannot string a couple sentences together, even while reading. His mental decline is glaringly obvious, and the conspiracy by the media and Democrat party to attempt to camouflage his failing mental health is fooling no one, least of all the rest of the nations of the world, including America’s foes.
Question should be, who is really running the country and the White House? It is very obvious that Biden does not have the capabilities to function as a leader which brings us back to who is running the show???
I’m worried about the country, not about Biden. He is in decline, so they hide him so he can stay figure head as long as possible. The things that are beong pushed through without legislative overview are what worries me.
Yes. However, his Presidency by CCTV and Zoom should not be surprising to anyone. His best day of physical and mental health will always yesterday. His handlers and financiers won’t let the country see the true fragility and lack of physical and cognitive capacity of Joe Biden. It saddens me. Kayleigh McEnany said Psaki has to loop back often because she doesn’t have access to the President. I believe McEnany is right, but not in the way most believe. I believe Psaki has access to Biden, but Psaki has to loop back because Biden isn’t making the final decisions. I don’t know who is running Biden, but the evidence is there, in my opinion, that Biden’s cognitive faculties are substandard for an owning and running of a fast food restaurant let alone the responsibilities of President of the United States. The more Biden has to interact in an unscripted situation, the more apparent his cognitive degradation is.
I am very concerned. The person that some Americans voted for is NOT the person leading the country. This has me worried and I am sure foreign leaders are concerned ad well.
Fortunately, President Trump set them Middle East up for success. It looks like the peace agreements are standing strong and whoever the powers are behind the man with dementia, they aren’t able to disrupted them.
I wish they same could be said about America. Thank God for States Rights. At least we can control things locally.