Joe Biden seemed to forget the defense secretary's name and even his job title in a speech yesterday - calling Lloyd Austin the 'guy who runs that outfit over there.'
If you want to know why Joe Biden has not done a full press conference yet, take a look at the video in this article. He looks weak, frail and perpetually confused, and in our story today, he cannot remember the name of his own Defense Secretary or even where the man works. Lloyd Austin works at the Pentagon. When you remember that Joe Biden controls the nuclear launch codes, it becomes downright terrify to contemplate.
That this is a conspiracy, being waged by the Democrats and aided and abetted by the media, to attempt to hide this from the American people is beyond dispute at this point. If things keep going the way they're going right now, it would be all but impossible to imagine Biden making it through the summer. So who is really in charge in the White House? I'll tell you who it's not, it's not Joe Biden.
‘PRESIDENT’ JOE BIDEN ATTEMPTS SPEAKING BUT WINDS UP SAYING THAT HE’S GOING TO GIVE ‘200 MILLION DOSES’ OF COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TO 300 AMERICANS
Joe Biden appears to forget Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's name before calling him 'the guy who runs that outfit over there' in latest gaffe
FROM THE DAILY MAIL: The president was announcing two women were to be promoted to elite, four-star general commands at a ceremony at the White House on International Women's Day.
'I want to thank Sec-, the former general, I keep calling him "General." My - the guy who runs that outfit over there,' Biden said, before quickly adding, 'I want to make sure we thank the secretary for all he's done.'
The 78-year-old self-confessed 'gaffe machine' has made verbal fumbles a hallmark of his career but there is growing disquiet over why Biden still hasn't held a press conference - no president in the last century has gone this long without taking questions from reporters. Donald Trump and Barack Obama both took on the press pack within their first month in charge.
The White House says Biden is focused on getting over big congressional hurdles - the COVID-19 relief bill and Cabinet confirmations. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday defended the president's accessibility to the media and suggested that a news conference was likely by the end of March.
'I would say that his focus is on getting recovery and relief to the American people and he looks forward to continuing to engage with all of you and to other members of the media who aren't here today,' Psaki said. 'And we'll look forward to letting you know, as soon as that press conference is set.'
The campaign was dominated by Trump dubbing Biden 'Sleepy Joe' and claiming that he was in mental decline - 'he's gonzo, folks.' Biden's team tried to allay fears by suggesting that he had made a career of these mental blunders and Biden himself described how he had struggled with a stutter since childhood.
In 2008, he introduced his running-mate as 'Barack America' and in a 2012 'Meet the Press' he accidentally revealed he supported gay marriage - before Obama had publicly set out a position on it. Last month, he swapped China for Canada in his opening remarks with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
His use of the phrase 'Neanderthal thinking' this week to describe the decision by the governors of Texas and Mississippi to lift mask mandates dominated a new cycle and drew ire from Republicans. That created the type of distraction his aides have tried to avoid and, in a pandemic silver lining, were largely able to dodge during the campaign because the virus kept Biden home for months and limited the potential for public mistakes.
Delaying the news conference and joint address also, symbolically, have kept open the first chapter of Biden's presidency and perhaps extended his honeymoon. His approval rating stood at 60% in a poll released Friday from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. READ MORE
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