He is the most depressing dude on earth.
In front of cameras, President Joe Biden went to the beach with his family on Saturday in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He shuffled across uneven sand, fidgeted with an uncooperative beach chair, and generally showed the world what an 80-year-old man in poor physical condition looks like in a summertime setting.
For the benefit of both Biden and the nation, the American political class could do without the beach body photo.
In a Twitter tweet, conservative pundit Benny Johnson likely spoke for many Biden detractors when he called the pictures a “snapshot of an America in Decline.”
“Pale, shriveled, shirtless Joe Biden fumbling around on the beach before being escorted back to the nursing home is a fitting snapshot of an America in Decline,” Johnson wrote in a tweet published Saturday.
“We are judged by the strength and fitness of our leaders.
“What does this say the world?”
Well, to begin with, if the United States is to be judged by the fitness of its current president, the verdict is already guilty — guilty of historic fecklessness in appointing a man in one of the most demanding positions on earth who is obviously incompetent; guilty of criminal partisanship in accepting Biden as a suitable candidate for the job in the first place because virtually no other member of his Democratic Party was presidential material in 2020 (and isn’t now); guilty of the th
But no American citizen who has been paying attention since April 2019, when Biden declared his presidential run, was unaware of it prior to the appearance of photos from Biden’s beach vacation on social media.
Johnson contrasted the apparent indifference of Biden’s fellow beachgoers with the raucous reception former President Donald Trump received Saturday night at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas where he showed up to watch mixed martial arts fighting. According to the U.K. Daily Mail, the party of the president, first lady Jill Biden, and granddaughter Finnegan appeared all but ignored in the videos.
The main character is fully dressed in contrast to the other two men, which is a concession to decency and decorum that plainly doesn’t restrain a career narcissist like Biden, who is probably approaching the second phase of senescence nonetheless.
It’s not difficult to picture Trump strutting around in a pair of bathing trunks without a shirt on; he would likely look just as flaccidly pale as most other large-framed, 77-year-old guys with British Isles blood in their veins.
Biden’s pallor is hardly his fault; Irish Americans don’t tan easily. But it is Biden’s responsibility since he doesn’t care that he is making both his country and himself seem weak. He has been doing that since January 20, 2021, through his acts. He didn’t have to do this as well.
