Biden’s unorthodox solo press conference appearance at the end of the NATO summit was billed as make or break. The octogenarian’s opening performance lived up to the stakes…
The US President finished his speaking section by introducing President Zelensky as… “President Putin“. A gasp filled the room…
The BBC helpfully clarified on its live blog “Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia.” Biden tried to recover:
“I’m so focused on beating Putin! We got to worry about it! Anyway…“
British hacks naturally took the opportunity to ask Starmer afterwards if he still insisted that Biden’s cognitive abilities were fine. The PM urged to “look at the substance of what has been achieved over the last days… a bigger NATO, a stronger NATO, a real sense of resolve… Zelensky described the sessions as a success.” Starmer said Biden “deserves credit for that, as does the team that works with him.“ A careful answer there with reference to Biden’s team…
At the extremely long subsequent news conference Biden referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump“. Now that would be quite the joint ticket…
Downing Street released a dolled-up video of Starmer’s meeting with Biden. It includes a stilted first handshake and the President’s bizarre second attempt at one once they were sitting. Biden eventually says “Gimme your hand, there, pal” and Starmer has to reach over awkwardly…
The PM has just had to deny that the President is “senile“: “We’ve covered a lot of ground, strategic ground, international stuff … He was on good form.” Funnily enough, Starmer disagrees with Biden’s own party. YouGov shows that the only demographic of Democrat that’s still in favor of a Biden presidential candidacy is… the over 65s. An age group Starmer will soon be in, to be fair…
The consensus from last night’s presidential debate is: It is now dawning on Democrats that Biden will be a serious liability by November, he is letting Trump get away with it. This time around the combatants’ microphones were muted while the other was talking. Not that it helped…
Less than 10 minutes into the debate Biden started freezing. Halfway through the White House began to brief that he had a cold. After a bad bout the President managed to say: “Look, we finally beat Medicare,” before being cut off by moderators. Kamala Harris seriously struggled to defend the performance. Democrats are still pouring in to describe it as an “unmitigated disaster”, “a slow-motion car crash”, “a meltdown”…
All the Trump campaign has had to do is string together the clips of Biden freezing. The debate is so early in the year that Democrats can still replace him at the DNC. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ears have just pricked up…
Trump made a lot of promises last night as he delivered his victory speech after “Super Tuesday”. The third time running President-hopeful swept up all but one of the Republican vote in 16 states in the primary elections. His rival Nikki Haley is not so happy, though she’s still clutching at hope, refusing to drop out of the contest…
Meanwhile Biden won every state up for grabs for the Democrats, spelling another Trump Vs Biden election in November. Along with promises to “drill baby drill“, “get the inflation down” and make America “greater than ever before“, true to form, Trump made a victory speech filled with pledges to tackle immigration. Vowing to get rid of “Biden migrant crime“, “close our borders“, and “deport a lot of bad people“. With many city streets in the likes of New York and San Francisco being filled with crime, you can hardly blame Trump’s supporters for meeting his rallying cry with cheers and chants…
UPDATE: Nikki Haley is set to pull out of the race, according to the Wall Street Journal. She’ll be delivering a statement at 3pm UK time…
“Sleepy Joe’s” napping tendencies are starting to grate even the most liberal of fans. Guido leaves it to readers to determine what he was trying to get across here…
Former Democrat congressman Tom Suozzi, who is now running for his old New York seat again, has gone so far as to tell Biden to stay away from his district on his visit today: “I don’t think it would be helpful, just as I don’t think Donald Trump would be helpful to my opponent“. Meanwhile Trump is rubbing his hands with glee…
Considered words from the leader of the free world this morning as Biden was asked if he supported a “hostages-for-ceasefire” deal:
“We should get… we should have a ceasefire… not a ceasefire, we should have those hostages released, and then we can talk“. The official US line is that a ceasefire is only a boon to Hamas…
Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Florence Eshalomi called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Commons yesterday before getting the Hansard transcript amended to say “humanitarian corridor”. If only it were as easy as that for Biden…
