Biden took flak for his bizarre syntax, confused references and awkwardness, for example when he said about his current and former wives: “I’m married to a teacher, my deceased wife is a teacher.”

But at almost the same moment, Trump was delivering a 68-minute speech to Republican legislators in Baltimore during which he caused surprise by name checking an unknown “Mike Pounce.” Was it Vice President Mike Pence that he meant? Senator Mike Rounds?…

Veering from the Teleprompter script to vent his hatred for renewable energy technology, Trump said energy saving light bulbs are no good because they make him “look orange.”

He acted out an extended imaginary scene in which an annoyed wife asks someone called “Charlie” why their television no longer shows the Democratic debate. Switching voice to the husband, he replied: “Darling, the wind isn’t blowing, the goddamn windmill stopped.”