Beege is far better at making fun of Biden than I am, so I will not try to do so here. And, given the circumstances--Biden's trip to France to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I am pretty sure that ridiculing the President of the United States isn't appropriate. 

But it's impossible not to comment on how embarrassing Biden's performance has been, even cringe-inducing. Obviously, I am biased against the man, but you would have to be blind not to notice that Biden hasn't just lost a step as anybody his age would have. He looks terrible. 

I didn't even bother to write about the Wall Street Journal piece on Biden that everybody was talking about. Who cares what Washington insiders are willing to say about Biden's brain? We all can see that Biden isn't always lucid, and the fact that some people are willing to say this while others insist that he is sharper than Einstein in the patent office is as surprising as the sun rising in the East. 

It's Washington politics, not data. We have all the data we need without whispers from establishment types. 

Me getting out of my car at the grocery store and realizing I forgot my wallet at home pic.twitter.com/MXHUbwPdtJ

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 6, 2024

Clips of Biden in France are racing across the internet, most of which make Biden look terrible. It's mostly the RNC spreading them, allowing Democrats to point out that it's pure politics. 

Yeah, but Biden really does look awful. The RNC may be pointing to it, but the content is pure Biden. The vacant looks, acting lost, being led around...it's really there, not some AI bull put together in a basement. He looks terrible, and makes the US look terrible too. 

You should see him behind closed doors. Sharp and engaged. https://t.co/3Bx3j4xUOo

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 6, 2024

Everybody around Biden is pretending not to notice that he looks and acts lost, and we can thank them for their kindness. But as a Cold War kid, I can tell you that he looked like one of the Soviet leaders from Brezhnev until Gorbachev. Old, out of touch, and leading a nation in decline. 

Jill, Ed.D., escorts Joe Biden out as French President Macron stays behind to greet veterans pic.twitter.com/n4rpRgdbv5

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024

Watching the President of the United States being led away as the president of France bounced around thanking the veterans who liberated his country was sad. I am no Macron fan, but he has performed masterfully these past few days. Biden, perhaps because he is halfway around the world in a different time zone, looked zoned out. 

Not a good look. 

Neither was Biden's speech inspiring. Biden is obsessed with portraying himself as a world-historic defender of Democracy facing down Trump at home and Putin abroad, once again making an important occasion about him and not the people about whom he should be talking. 

Biden uses his D-Day address in Normandy to talk about how many Russians have been killed in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/6u4m0SNAIv

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024

To call that tone deaf is such an understatement that I can't find the words. Thank God Uncle Bosy and Beau Biden weren't thrown in as men who stormed the beaches. It could have happened. Nazis eating Bosey and Beau saving Private Ryan, perhaps. 

We were often told that Ronald Reagan, too, had lost a step. Well, judge for yourself. 

Ronald Reagan forty years ago today on the boys of Pointe du Hoc. (Shorter version). pic.twitter.com/Y0VPlC80Si

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 6, 2024

Most of the veterans of D-Day are, of course, in Heaven after 80 years since that day. But not all of them, and it is striking that at least some of those men are more articulate and coherent than the President of the United States. 

Veterans and world leaders met in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings pic.twitter.com/jkVbgcX6sh

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 6, 2024

The men who stormed the beaches at Normandy, living and dead, deserve so much more than this. The living are watching as America gets embarrassed, and the dead deserve not to be betrayed in such a manner. 

I was born not long after the 20th anniversary of D-Day, and in my youth, World War II was still not a distant memory in the country--its legacy suffused the culture, just as Vietnam did. Then, too, many of us knew that the turmoil in the country dishonored the sacrifices made by the men who stormed the beaches at Normandy. 

That the country recovered from that sorry period of the 60s and 70s tells us that it is possible. America has survived much worse than the troubles of then or today. 

But that we have is no guarantee that we will do so every time we face challenges. Reagan, in another great speech, reminded us of a basic truth:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

We owe it to every generation who has fought for that freedom to pass along that legacy to the next generation. 

Do you think that Biden is the man to do so? I don't.