O Biden He has given the fewest interviews of any president at this point in his term since Ronald Reagan. White House aides often erect barriers to prevent reporters from asking the U.S. president questions.
White House staff often play music to drown out questions as the president leaves.
The radio hosts who interviewed the president last week in an effort to reassure the public about Biden’s mental capacity said they were given a list of questions approved by Biden’s campaign committee.
For more than a year, senior White House advisers have aggressively managed President Biden’s schedule, travel and in-person meetings while trying to downplay signs that age is catching up with the oldest president in U.S. history.
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They have restricted their press conferences and media appearances, twice declining Super Bowl halftime interviews — an easy way to reach millions of voters — and have tried to ensure that meetings with donors are limited to standard exchanges of polite remarks.
Senior advisers have rejected travel proposals amid concerns that the president would not have the stamina, including the idea of taking weekly trips across the country in 2022 to tout the benefits of the infrastructure bill.
All of this unfolded as Biden’s blunders became increasingly evident.
His poor performance in the 90-minute debate with Donald Trump surprised members of his own party, including some White House staffers who rarely spend face-to-face time with Biden.
They feel cheated
Now, many donors and lawmakers say they feel cheated by what they believe is a an effort to allay concerns, raised long before the debate began, about whether Biden is fit for a second term.
Reports of the president’s mental acuity have drawn criticism from the White House and denials from Biden’s allies.
The president’s public appearances and private interactions, according to the people who described them, show that Biden has moments when he is insightful and detailed.
At other times, he is abstract, rambling and has difficulty expressing his thoughts. Such slip-ups have become more frequent, according to people who have met with the president, and many are now widely shared on social media.
Some who had seen him for some time said they were surprised at how far he had fallen.
Last summer, a former Biden adviser told an associate that the meeting “did not go well” and that Biden had visibly aged since they last met.
WSJ: Canceled lunch with Soltz to go to sleep
Additionally, Joe Biden reportedly canceled an early evening meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the last minute because he needed to go to bed.
The WSJ writes that it was an informal meeting in Germany, in the middle of the G7 summit, in June 2022, where they would discuss Ukraine.
Finally, instead of the American president, Anthony Blinken appeared, who reported that the former had fallen asleep.
However, in a statement to the newspaper, a State Department representative denied the report.
During the proceedings of the session, those present stated that Biden showed no signs of cognitive decline. However, as they said, as the days passed he appeared physically exhausted.
According to the US President’s followers, this was due to the lack of air conditioning.
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