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The New York Times printed a stunning report about President Biden’s age and the way it’s turning into an “uncomfortable issue” for the White House and the Democratic Party.
The headline of the report on Saturday declared that 79-year-old Biden is “testing the boundaries of age and the presidency,” first highlighting how his upcoming journey to the Middle East was initially tacked onto his latest journey to Europe with one nameless official calling it “crazy” if the president had executed a 10-day journey abroad, these aides inform the Times there have been “political and diplomatic” causes behind separating the journey into two.
“But the reality is that managing the schedule of the oldest president in American history presents distinct challenges,” Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote. “And as Mr. Biden insists he plans to run for a second term, his age has increasingly become an uncomfortable issue for him, his team and his party.”
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President Joe Biden condemned threats made in opposition to public officers, together with judges.
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Baker recapped from Biden’s European journey how he wanted steerage from one other world chief to take a look at the cameras for a photo-op and the way now-outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson answered a query on behalf of the president, who did not hear a reporter shouting a query about Ukraine.
“At times, Mr. Biden kept a packed schedule. On the day he flew to Madrid for a NATO summit, he met with multiple leaders and finished with a dinner hosted by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain. On another day, though, he skipped evening festivities with other leaders, and his public schedule finished with a 3:30 p.m. event,” Baker wrote. “But aides said he was busy and stayed up working late each night of the trip out of view — just as they say they expect him to in the coming week as he hits the road again in Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
Baker wrote that Biden’s age has change into “a sensitive topic in the West Wing,” noting that he is already one 12 months older than President Reagan was when he completed his second time period. He alleged “more than a dozen current and former senior officials and advisers uniformly reported that Mr. Biden remained intellectually engaged, asking smart questions at meetings, grilling aides on points of dispute, calling them late at night, picking out that weak point on Page 14 of a memo and rewriting speeches like his abortion statement on Friday right up until the last minute.”
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However, the Times acknowledged that Biden’s power stage is “not what it was” and that some aides “quietly watch out for him.”
“He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire. He stumbles over words during public events, and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe,” Baker detailed. “Although White House officials insist they make no special accommodations the way Reagan’s team did, privately they try to guard Mr. Biden’s weekends in Delaware as much as possible. He is generally a five- or five-and-a-half-day-a-week president, although there are times when he is called at any hour regardless of the day. He stays out of public view at night and has taken part in fewer than half as many news conferences or interviews as recent predecessors.”
The White House was irked by the quantity of media consideration Biden’s fall off his bicycle obtained in June regardless of his common exercise routine and that his “admirers” nonetheless query his skill to steer for one other six years if reelected in 2024.
US President Joe Biden falls off his bicycle as he approaches well-wishers following a motorbike trip at Gordon’s Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on June 18, 2022.
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David Gergen, a former White House adviser for 4 presidents who turned 80 in May, advised the Times he feels it is “inappropriate” to hunt the presidency past 80 years outdated, insisting he would not belief himself to run any group since “you’re not quite as sharp as you once were.”
But “longevity specialist” S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois Chicago stated “there’s no evidence that the age of Biden should matter one ounce” however stated the “right question” is whether or not the president’s psychological health will attain to 86, the age he’d on the finish of a second time period, telling the Times, “Things go wrong as we get older and the risks rise the older we get.”
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After citing a June ballot displaying 64% of voters say Biden is too outdated to be president, Baker wrote that Biden’s public appearances “fuel that perception.”
“His speeches can be flat and listless. He sometimes loses his train of thought, has trouble summoning names or appears momentarily confused. More than once, he has promoted Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her ‘President Harris,'” Baker advised readers. “Mr. Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, stumbles over words like ‘kleptocracy.’ He has said Iranian when he meant Ukrainian and several times called Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, ‘John,’ confusing him with the late Republican senator of that name from Virginia.”
He then pointed to numerous moments the White House needed to stroll again Biden’s feedback like when he vowed that the U.S. would militarily reply if China invaded Taiwan and when he declared Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks throughout an occasion on the Royal Castle, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland March 26, 2022. Slawomir Kaminski /Agencja Wyborcza.pl by way of REUTERS
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But in accordance with longtime Biden adviser Mike Donilon, he has not seen a lot change, telling the Times, “On the way back from long trips when the staff is wiped out, he’ll want to spend four hours planning for how we hit the ground running on domestic policy, when all much younger staff want to do is sleep.”
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Deputy White House chief of employees Jennifer O’Malley Dillon equally stated the president is “driving additions to his schedule all the time, whether it’s new C.E.O. calls or night meetings with members.”
When reached for a response, a spokesperson for the White House pointed to the remarks made by Donilon and Dillon with out commenting additional.