Legal Insurrection readers may recall that Biden fell on stage during the 2023 graduation program at the US Air Force Academy after handing out the last diploma to the cadets. He appeared to trip on a sandbag on stage.
That incident was one of many falls and trips that the occupant of the Oval Office has had since 2021. That Air Force Academy incident led to calls for a contested Democratic Primary, which fizzled during the primary season.
This year, West Point drew the short straw….and Biden delivered in what is now a highly predictable manner.
During a slurring, rambling, and histrionic delivery of how America is strongest by the “power of our example,” the tepid response was such that Biden had a ‘Jeb Bush’ moment. He had to ask people to clap.
MIRANDA DEVINE: Well, my first thought is that he had to ask the audience to clap him. That’s pretty sad that’s shades of Jeb Bush and the applause was pretty minimal, so it didn’t sound like it was a very receptive audience. And look, he said, that line, he says over and over, and it’s not his original line.He lifted that from Bill Clinton, when he was introducing Barack Obama back in 2008. So, as usual, Joe Biden is lifting other people’s words. You know, it’s sort of hollow, I think, when it comes from a man who isn’t leading the world very well.
Then, there was a moment in the address when Biden was completely incoherent.
When talking about how Russian President Vladimir Putin had launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, starting a war that is now over two years old, Biden seemed to trail off.”Putin was certain that NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] would fracture. I met with him right after being elected president before, right after I was sworn in, and we talked about this very issue. The fall, he attacked that fall—he decided to, look, I shouldn’t get into this probably.It gets me a little excited,” Biden said.
Biden also treated West Point cadets and their families to more fabulism.
Biden repeated a claim that he turned down an appointment to the Naval Academy, where he said he intended to play football, during his commencement speech at West Point on Saturday.Biden, 81, told the graduates that he was “one of 10” appointed to the naval academy by Republican Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs years before he’d go on to defeat him in the 1972 election to become a US Senator.“I was appointed by the fella I ran against when I was 29 years old to the Naval Academy. I was one of 10. I wanted to play football,” Biden said in his remarks.“And I’d found out two days earlier they had a quarterback named Roger Staubach and a halfback named Joe Bellino — I said, ‘I’m not going there.’ I went to Delaware. Not a joke,’ the president said.
It appears the entire West Point Biden experience was a compendium of elements from the list of the Sixth Stage of Alzheimer’s/Dementia that I did in April.
For those of you interested, the US Air Force Academy graduation speaker is Vice President Kamala Harris. Compared to West Point’s commencement keynote address, I am in for a treat.
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