Biden’s lapses increase and his health is once again under question

In the United States, concern is mounting over Joe Biden’s health. Democrats do not want to talk about a plan B, but not a day goes by without an image that sets off alarm bells, the most recent during a conference in which former President Barack Obama has to guide him to continue with the event.

The G7 summit left the image of a somewhat absent-minded US president. While the world leaders were paying attention to one parachutist, Joe Biden went to attend to another one of them until Giorgia Meloni went to meet him. But that image that is serving as ammunition for the Republicans changes if the shot is opened, there they see that Biden was indeed paying attention to the parachutists and it is to them that he is addressing himself when he gives the thumbs up.

In another scene, as the entire audience, led by Vice President Kamala Harris, sways to the music, the American leader, very still, caught the attention of the media. Days earlier, at the celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the landing on the beaches of Normandy, Biden tried to sit in a chair that he did not have.

The American president has had many moments of confusion throughout his mandate. For the Republicans, these slip-ups are an opportunity to discredit the Democratic candidate in the final stretch of the presidential elections, in which whoever wins, an octogenarian will govern: Trump has just turned 78 and Biden will leave office at 86.

The presidential cabinet assures that the president is a candidate with full mental acuity and capable of carrying out presidential obligations, even the White House has classified these lapses as something jovial or warm – depending on the context – on Biden’s part.

Another of the president’s most memorable lapses was when, in a speech at a rally in Florida, he recalled the death of his son in Iraq, when in fact he died in the United States due to cancer. In the same speech, he also confused the war in Iraq with the one in Ukraine.