Good lord, President Biden’s decline is painful to watch: On Wednesday, he humiliated himself multiple times over the course of a paint-by-numbers speech.
He dropped into Pueblo, Colo., to tout what the White House says is the world’s largest wind-tower factory, aiming to take credit for creating “good, green jobs” and so bolster his subterranean polls on the economy.
But he couldn’t stop himself from ad-libbing disastrously.
He opened with a failed joke about the nuclear “football” — introducing himself to worker by announcing, “Now look, my Marine carries that, but it has the code to blow up the world,” before pointing to the machinery and mock-asking, “This is not nuclear weapons, is it?”
He followed with some “senior moment” borderline-racism: Addressing the South Korean corporate plant owners, he bragged, “I am friends with your leader, Mr. Moon, you know” — plainly meaning Moon Jae-in, who exited as South Korea’s prez last year.
And Biden has since honored the current president of that land, Yoon Suk Yeol, at a White House state dinner in April, among other meetings at summits and so on.
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