President Joe Biden has made a habit of making random comments with no apparent reason since he began his tenure as President of the United States. In a speech about gun safety at the University of Connecticut, which was meant to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Biden abruptly ended his Friday remarks by saying “God save the Queen, man!” and imminently put down the microphone. What could explain such a random and seemingly out of context remark?
Even lower-ranking White House officials, who has known the President for multiple decades, could not explain the comment.
Such a statement only serves to emphasize the concerns of many over the Biden Administration’s aging President. Biden makes random and inappropriate remarks on often consequential issues and then tries to avoid and brush away repercussions and questions by giving ludicrous explanations like “I was comment to someone in the crowd”. Earlier in the speech, Biden joked about being 110 years old, further distancing himself from reality.
One can reasonably question the President’s cognitive health and capacity for office. Biden has pushed many popular gun control measures, such as universal background checks and banning AR-15s, but failed to deliver when he couldn’t meet a basic criteria of sticking around to shake hands due to an impending storm. Biden’s lack of understanding of reality and hypocrisy is emblematic of a leader who policies to please the masses, and even then fails to follow up on those policies, exemplifying the fragile state of the Biden Administration as a whole.
Such behavior can no longer be brushed aside as a President’s growing pains or learning curves. The Biden Administration has several unresolved issues on the table, from elitist healthcare policies to potential economic stagnation, and the President’s lack of capacity for office greatly hinders necessary progress.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, died in September. Biden attended the queen’s funeral on Sept. 19— But I guess it slipped his mind.
It is time for liberals to acknowledge that the presidency is a job that not every leader is able to take on and, in Biden’s case, it is time to step aside.