Biden’s Europe Trip Was a Train Wreck
What was supposed to unite and rally our allies instead left a trail of gaffes, fires to be put out, and a collective global cringe
It’s not that anyone expects much. We don’t. I don’t think any American or sentient person on the planet expects Joe Biden to get up in front of the world and issue a poignant passion-filled rally for all the goodness of humanity to feel inspired to follow. I don’t think many expected that.
But making it coherently through one entire media appearance is just too low of a bar. Personally, I wasn’t expecting much of anything, but I didn’t expect it to go that poorly.
Being in the Bernie camp during the Democratic primary, I knew the COVID lockdowns and campaigning from a basement were working out in Biden’s favor. Despite that, he still managed to have a gaffe-filled campaign, kissing, rubbing shoulders, chest poking, getting too heated too quickly too often, and challenging constituents to push-up contests.
The freaking media reported his cognitive decline at the beginning of the primary, but once the field got weeded out, and it became a Bernie-Biden race that then moved to the general election, questions about Scranton Joe’s mental readiness were greeted with aghast pundits, appalled…
