The topic of the day. 80 years old, Joe Biden is the oldest White House resident in US history. An age that is anything but unnoticed. Used to mistakes, the Democrat, who could reapply in 2024, challenges the Americans as well as his own field, despite real political successes. If the labor market has experienced a historic rebound for 50 years, the insidious sequences glaze the image of the American head of state.
“Where are we going ?” he had asked under the eyes of the cameras, Monday, October 24, 2022. Joe Biden was in the gardens of the White House to plant a tree, in honor of the 50 years of work of the gardener of the president’s residence. How disoriented, the American president walks away for a brief moment before rejoining his team, asking which route to take to return to his private quarters.
In September 2022, the latter had addressed in a speech dedicated to the fight against obesity and food insecurity, to Jackie Walorski, late Republican parliamentarian in August in a car accident. The controversy did not take long to swell. Pictures are popular with social networks that ignite, fueling various problems and physical and mental health burdens by Joe Biden.
Potiche or even senile, Washington has no shortage of adjectives for discredit the man at the head of the free world. Clumsiness, more and more numerous, are the subject Republican jokes. Among the critics looms the mocking shadow of Donald Trump. The billionaire called his Democratic opponent a “Joe sleepy” (“Joe Sleeping”) during the presidential campaigns in 2020.
Chosen for his sometimes difficult speeches, Joe Biden has repeatedly talked about his stuttering who suffered as a child. She was a victim of two strokes, a pulmonary embolism and a venous thrombosis deep. Doubt hangs over his possible candidacy in the presidential elections scheduled for 2024.
Why are we talking about it? Is Joe Biden Really Senile? Can he run for president in 2024? Are Americans right to fear for their president’s health?
Citation. “The fact that he is an elderly and tired man worries everyone. There is a majority among Democratic voters who would like to have another candidate for 2024. To say that he is senile and that he no longer controls his thinking, I think we don’t have anyway. enough elements to tell “, Nicole Bacharan, Franco-American political scientist, specialist in American society.
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