The 81-year-old president has a grueling schedule and there’s no evidence of cognitive decline. Compare that to the 40th president, who was fading at a much younger age.
is routinely attacked, mocked, and ridiculed for his supposed physical and cognitive decline, while other comparable political figures like Sens.The easy explanation is that being one of a hundred senators is nothing like being president of the country. Also, Reagan was president 40 years ago, which is like being in another galaxy.
First elected at age 69 and then the oldest president to hold the office, his schedule was kept light under the orders of first lady Nancy Reagan, who set boundaries like, “I want him home for dinner.” There was always an understanding that Reagan was not going to work that hard. He made a joke out of it, saying, “It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”
Biden has been underestimated throughout his career, and his rival says he can’t complete a sentence and is too weak and feeble to stand for 90 minutes, the length of the CNN debate next week. That’s a low bar for an incumbent president seeking re-election, and Democrats are cautiously confident Biden will clear it like he did at the State of the Union address in March.
Lots of people in their eighties can’t drive anymore or ride a bicycle, but their mind is fully functioning. Dementia is a real thing, and it’s more than flubbing a name or a date. Trump’s recent rantings about boats powered by batteries competing with a shark attack and calling the fictional Hannibal Lecter “a nice guy” are drawing more attention to the former president’s mental state.
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