Biden Loses It

After Biden finished his opening statement at his press conference yesterday and got ready to take questions, he looked at the reporters and said, "As usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I'm going to call on." And he then proceeded to take questions from the approved reporters on the list that his staff had given him. 

As he was leaving, a reporter yelled an unexpected question, and Biden lost it. He stomped back and yelled at her. In that moment it became apparent why the White House refused to allow Biden to do a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin.

At a joint press conference both leaders would have taken turns calling on a reporter, and the reporter gets to pose a question to both leaders. In other words, they couldn't control which reporters Putin would call on, meaning they couldn't guarantee generally easy questions for Biden from loyal liberals in the press corps. 

So, were Biden's handlers worried that Putin would have eaten Biden alive? Of course. But they were also concerned that Biden would have been "in the water without his floaties." And as we saw yesterday, he can't handle it.

In my view, it is obvious that Biden is past his prime, past his ability to handle the presidency. And it is becoming increasingly obvious to more and more Americans. 

Perhaps that's why in the middle of the economic recovery and the decline of COVID that his approval ratings are dropping. According to Rasmussen's daily tracking poll, Biden's approval rating is down five points since the end of May. A new poll from Monmouth University finds Biden's approval rating down six points, to 48%, since April.

Speaking of COVID, Biden refused to answer yesterday when asked if he would press Chinese President Xi Jinping on the origins of the virus.