President Joe Biden served up more fuel to critics who have suggested that his advanced age and lack of “mental sharpness” are reasons that he is unfit for a second term in the White House, making a bizarre joke about the “thin walls” of his mom and pop’s bedroom and seeming to lose his way as he walked off stage during a Wednesday speech to supporters on raising the debt ceiling.
The octogenarian gaffe machine delivered remarks to the party faithful in Valhalla, N.Y. where he blamed congressional Republicans for the lack of a deal to extend the borrowing limit despite the Democrats’ refusal to negotiate in good faith, and as he is prone to do, Biden wandered off into the fog of a trip down memory lane, recalling his childhood to the crowd who had gathered to see him live and in person at SUNY Westchester Community College.
During his speech, the deeply unpopular leader made what some interpreted to be a joke about him being able to listen to his parents having sex during his formative years at the family home, Biden grew up in hardscrabble Scranton, Pa., before the clan packed up and moved to Delaware.
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“We lived in a three-bedroom split-level home in a housing development that was a nice area that was when they were developing suburbia,” the elderly career politician recounted.
“With four kids and a grandpop living with us. I look back on it and wonder how thin those walls were for my mom and dad, but at any rate …,” he said as the audience obligingly laughed at the unfunny joke.
When Biden had finished his speech, he once again seemed to be confused about leaving the stage, being guided away by his handlers in a scene that has been all too commonplace for the 80-year-old Democrat who, if reelected next year, will be 86 by the time that his second White House term expires.
Biden once again gets lost as he attempts to exit the stage pic.twitter.com/1faxibQlgj
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 10, 2023
According to The Washington Post-ABC News survey, only 32 percent of voters believe that Biden has the ”mental sharpness” to effectively serve as president, considerably down from 40 percent in February and lagging far behind his rival in a potential rematch of 2020 with former President Donald J. Trump, whom 54 percent believe is mentally sharp enough to carry out the duties of the presidency. His confusion at the end of the speech isn’t likely to move the needle in his favor.
Biden’s speech came on the day that congressional Republicans unveiled evidence that numerous members of his family used a complex web of LLCs to receive money from interests related to the nation’s foreign adversaries, revelations that in a country with a functional press and a justice system that wasn’t rigged to protect powerful individuals would be a major scandal.
Twitter users reacted to Biden’s strange “thin walls” reference:
Always a pervert
— Michelle Snyder (@mrjrsnyder1) May 11, 2023
Gross
— Marc Davenport (@DavenportMarc) May 11, 2023
Ewwww
— sharon wright (@sharonberg51) May 10, 2023
Gross. He is such an embarrassment.
— Trial Watcher (@ny_trial) May 11, 2023
Probably not as thin as the shower curtain hung while you showered with your daughter!!
— [email protected] (@grammybearof5) May 10, 2023
Who would say something so gross?? Well, that’s just Joe being Joe
— Heather Deacon (@HdeaconDeacon) May 11, 2023
The president has previously used the “thin walls” story to great effect during his speeches.
“I can remember we lived in a three-bedroom, split-level home, and my bedroom was up against the wall where my parents’ bedroom was in the — and my dad’s headboard was there. And I — I remember one — I was, like, 14 years old. And I remember my dad — I could see he — you could hear he was just restless. And I asked my mom the next morning when he went to work, ‘What’s the matter?’ She said, ‘Well, his company just told him they’re not going to pay for health insurance anymore,” he said earlier this year when speaking on the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
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