It's increasingly evident that Joe Biden, 81, is not mentally fit to serve as president, which means his handlers in the White House have been struggling to make the case that, actually, everything is just fine.
"President Biden is crisscrossing the country at a rate that often exceeds his predecessors' travel schedules, talking to the American people about their lives and the issues that matter most to them," deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Politico in response to Democratic criticism of the president's light public schedule and aversion to press conferences.
According to our analysis, Biden's travel and vacation schedule during his first three years in office was similar to that of former president Donald Trump, who was ridiculed for frequently visiting his properties in Florida, New Jersey, and Virginia.
Our results were in line with those of a May 2023 analysis by the Washington Post's Philip Bump, which found that "Biden has spent all or part of 256 days of his presidency either on vacation or at one of his homes in Delaware," compared with the 250 days Trump stayed at his properties during the same period in his presidency.
Perhaps the most absurd part of the Biden spokesman's comments to Politico was his insistence that the president has been traveling the country to talk "To the American people about their lives and the issues that matter most to them." In reality, Biden's travels have nearly always been marred by humiliating gaffes.
During a trip to Vietnam in September 2023, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre interrupted Biden's rambling remarks about China because, in the president's words, it was time to "Go to bed." When he does travel the country, Biden finds comfort in ice cream shops, where he has no trouble answering questions from reporters about his favorite flavor.
The American people have noticed that Biden, wherever he happens to be at a given time, is not well and getting worse by the day.
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