Recent footage from a Biden campaign event in Nevada has yet again sparked skepticism toward Biden’s ability to speak coherently at public engagements. During his speech, the president appeared to be going off on a tangent when he told the crowd in a mumbling tone, “I’m not gonna go on too long, I apologize.”
Following this comment, music immediately played over speakers, blasting Curtis Mayfield’s classic 70s R&B hit “Move on Up.” The music abruptly cuts, leaving Biden with a confused look on his face, and the crowd awkwardly laughs. X account Breaking911 posted footage of the incident with the caption, “Biden’s staff PANICS when he goes off-script at campaign event.”
Social media users in the comments section quickly called out Biden’s ever-increasingly apparent deteriorating mental capability. “Was that them reminding him to leave & don’t say another word before he embarrasses himself?” one person commented.
Another user played off the commonly circulated belief on the internet that Joe Biden is suffering from some stage of dementia, given the innumerable public slip-ups he has demonstrated throughout his presidency. The individual suggested that Biden’s audiences have been instructed to laugh during moments when it appears the president is disoriented to make light of the situation.
“It’s almost as if they coach his audiences to laugh whenever he seems lost & confused because he’s uncomfortable about his advanced dementia & senility & laughing makes him feel more like a normal human being,” another person wrote.
One X user poked fun at Biden’s reaction to the music suddenly cutting on, “I think that music startled the [poop emoji] outta him.” One commenter addressed the crowd’s awkward reaction to Biden, stating, “‘They’re laughing at you, not with you’ moment.”
As we approach the upcoming presidential election later this year, there are increasingly more videos surfacing on social media, highlighting what many consider to be Biden’s mental decline. Watch a clip from Biden’s campaign event mishap below:
It was particularly damning for the Biden administration when the findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur were released, detailing its conclusion on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. According to the special counsel, it partly determined that charges should not be brought against the president because of his memory complications and elderly age.
Hur wrote in his findings, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory . . . It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
The American Tribune also reported on the transcripts from the full interview with the special counsel, which have created concern about Biden’s memory. The president appeared to have great trouble recalling significant moments in his life. At one point, Biden said, “When did I announce for President?” and, “Well, if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?”
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