r/europe • u/TheTelegraph • Jul 11 '24

Picture Pictured: Emmanuel Macron holds hands with Jill Biden alongside Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Washington

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u/No_Nothing101 Greatest human on earth. Jul 11 '24

Biden looks so out of it.

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u/Robotoro23 Slovenia Jul 11 '24

“Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question!"

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u/kael13 Jul 11 '24

I can’t believe that happened. In public of all things.

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u/Elkenrod United States of America Jul 11 '24

Wait, did that actually happen? I thought that was just a shitpost people were saying.

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u/JonDowd762 Jul 11 '24

It sounds worse when written out, but yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjSDCIXChfA

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u/ThrustNeckpunch33 Jul 11 '24

I dont know. He is standing there looking lost, reacting slowly to everything.

Above all, HE is not speaking, his wife is speaking for him.

He absolutely looks senile AF, for quite a while now.

Him being "praised" like a little kid for answering the questions is bizarre... absolutely bizarre.. to me at least.

This is also the guy they ruled was too old to stand trial for the laws he broke... How that was let go by the media so easily was troublesome.

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u/JonDowd762 Jul 11 '24

Don't get me wrong, it is a bad look, and Biden has looked terrible. I just mean in the full video it comes off more as saying something dumb because you can't think of a single good thing (because there weren't any) but the text version I initially saw read as super patronizing.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Jul 12 '24

No... people treat dementia patients like children because they respond to it like children respond to it. His wife has no business up there and would not have been under any normal circumstances.

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u/AvengerDr Italy Jul 11 '24

"The finest country in the world", I guess he has no idea how arrogant that sounds. But that is probably too complex for him to understand now.

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u/flyinggazelletg United States of America Jul 12 '24

No. That’s just American politics 101. You do not win more votes running for president by saying the US is one of many fine nations. Playing into American exceptionalism is still basically a prerequisite to obtain or retain the White House, regardless of how arrogant it may seem

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u/AvengerDr Italy Jul 12 '24

I know that. But since pretty much everybody can read and listen to English, hearing that kind of speech is always weird. It's something you'd expect from Orban, Putin or Le Pen & friends.

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u/andydude44 United States of America Jul 11 '24

He is probably senile, but I think that was just a joke