And questions have been raised about Mr Biden’s mental, and physical, acuity. The president on Thursday accidentally called Kamala Harris, Vice President, “President Harris”.
Throughout the election campaign he has engaged in numerous malapropisms, slurred words, mispronouncing words and misidentifying people, such as calling his wife Jill his sister.
I’ve noticed he seems to make a point of jogging on stage up to the microphone to address an audience.
I’m concerned this 78 year old really isn’t as well as is hoped.
What an age for a man to be POTUS. When you think that out of all the people in America you’d think someone fitter could represent them. Kamala is waiting in the wings I suppose.
Urmston, my dad had dementia, it is, indeed, an incedibly cruel disease and not something to be bandied about lightly
I wish that you would think carefully about the things you say
I cannot believe anybody saying bring back Trump. Why?
What do you feel about how he incited his followers to storm the capitol ? Is that making A G A ?
As someone with dyspraxia, he has my sympathy. This kind of verbal mix up, is not uncommon with dyspraxia. I am renown in my family for mixing my words. That may well be his problem because I think these slip-ups. and misuse of words has been a feature in his life from quite early in his career.
Biden was the preferred Democratic candidate for President from, to be honest, a pretty mediocre bunch, but he was chosen and elected and since everyone saw his slip ups, of both kinds before the election, but still thought they would rather have him than Trump again, I cannot see what all the fuss is about.
He has also chosen a very competent Vice-President who is mroe than capable of taking over if anything happens to him. I think that was a deliberate choice.
Lets stop worrying about his age and trips, there is nothing anyone can do about them and concentrate on his decisions. When his decisions get irrational is the time to worry
I’m not talking about Democratic policies here BlueBell although PippaZ and WWmk2 plus others tried to derail it in that direction.
^He seems to have started some good work give the bloke a chance for crying out loud
What is the matter with some of you^
I’m questioning his competency.
Not his politics.
It's been obvious for some time to anyone with eyes that Biden is in the early stages of dementia. He slurs his words, he can't remember the name of the Secretary of State for Defence or the Pentagon, he can barely follow an autocue, he can't answer questions from the press, he frequently appears not to know what he's doing or who anyone is and now we see he is extremely unstable on his feet.
You just have to compare his speeches from just 4 years ago to his speeches now to see that something is badly amiss - low energy doesn't begin to describe it. It's incredibly frightening to think that this is the man who is leading the free world.
I genuinely do not think Biden is up to the job, even though he’s a gentle and kind man who has known a lot of personal heartbreak. It’s just so awful watching him. I’m nervous for him anticipating his next slip up.
Good grief it’s like witches stirring the cauldron what do some of you sound like? rubbing your hands in glee ‘oh he had a trip up’ rub hands again ‘keep watching he might do something else wrong’
He seems to have started some good work give the bloke a chance for crying out loud
What is the matter with some of you
You can taste the negativity
Donald must have greased the stairs 
He made a show of himself and America because he fell over
Agreed PippaZ , how terribly sad
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Just seen the clip on TV, he looks like he's doing a Charlie Chaplin impersonation, what a show he has made of himself and America.
A Trump supporter is concerned that Biden isn't a safe pair of hands.
Ok.....
Portray him as "struggling" as much as you like. To use your own words UG, just wait and see.
The transcript of his interview on ABC television was revealing. And worrying. Here it is:
“Even the friendliest media have noted that Biden is the first President in a century to not give a press conference in his first month in office.
On Wednesday, his press secretary Jen Psaki announced that Biden would finally hold a press conference on 25th March. The ABC interview will not have reassured his advisors.
Stephanopoulus pitched the gentlest of underarm lobs – “You think he’s a killer?” – and Biden swung and missed: “Uh-huh. I do.”
When Stephanopoulos asked how Biden would make Putin “pay”, Biden floundered. The transcript reads like a man trying to remove his foot from his mouth.
“The price he's gonna pay we'll – you'll see shortly. I'm not gonna – there's – by the way, we oughta be able that ol' – that trite expression ‘walk and chew gum at the same time’, there're places where it's in our mutual interest to work together.”
Urmstongran
His career choice. Nobody twisted his arm to take the job.
So, Urmstongran, you think it was okay for Russia to interfere in US elections? I imagine you think it was okay for them to interfere in the Referendum too then. Are we to do nothing to stop this?
Don't you think the Russian foreign ministry has their own game to play? What a weird idea to use this to try and show Biden up as less competent. I wish Johnson was only as "incompetent" and knowledgable as him. His pratfalls have certainly weakened us abroad.
Look please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not saying he’s not a nice, kind family man. He’s struggling. Anyone can see that and I’m sorry (and a bit anxious) about the guy.
Yes, roll out his ‘achievements ‘. - he’s delivering on Democratic policies drawn up (? For him) after all. But my thread was to ask you do you really think this 78 year old is a safe pair of hands? Capable? Because, sorry, I don’t.
Which is why Returnofthemc you wouldn’t want to be President of a powerful country at age 78. Let’s be honest, it’s beyond most of us at that age both mentally and physically.
He is indeed better than Trump, but any other candidate would be.I do hope that the Democrats and the Republicans choose somebody younger next time.
I was surprised that he openly called Putin ‘a killer’ the other day.
Would you say that David Attenborough was intellectually challenged at that age?
Or Michelangelo.
Or John Glenn
OrSomerset Maugham
Many many others we could quote
Just seen a program that the local indigenous people are desperate for the gas .pipe line, it will provide work for thousands of them, many are living on the breadline. Biden seems to have caused problems at the Mexican Border, the economic migrants have taken him at his word and are becoming desperate to get in to the USA. The democrats have a history of choosing unsuitable candidates for president
He is better than Trump!
To question someone's 'mental health ' on the basis of falling up aircraft stairs and misnaming a colleague's status is ridiculous
I fell in Tesco's car park two weeks ago, quite spectacularly, I might add
Joe Biden is delivering $1400 the least wealthy.
This surely should be applauded
Pippaz
Please note: not from the Daily Mail.
Here’s the proof from the Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-fall-air-force-one-b1819731.html
Biden is stirring a hornets nest.
From the Telegraph just now (latest):
“He (Biden) has a tiger by the tail, and has plunged relations with Russia into crisis.
Putin has recalled his ambassador to Washington, DC for “consultations”. In the lexicon of diplomacy, this indicates uncommon offence and insult. Russia hasn’t recalled its ambassador to Washington since 1998, after American airstrikes on Iraq.
The Russian foreign ministry warns of “an irreversible deterioration in relations”. Biden promised on Wednesday night that Putin “will pay a price” which “you’ll see shortly”.
Don’t any of you think this is worrying? If this had been Trump he’d have been called out for ‘war mongering’. Trump kept things peaceful. I don’t think Biden will.
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