Joe Biden is about to hit an all-time low: For no good or explained reason, he has decided to skip Monday’s 9/11 ceremonies.

Yes, our self-styled Empathizer-in-Chief, who revels in ruminating on his personal tragedies constantly, has decided to sit this one out.

After a summer spent dozing on the beach, grudgingly rousting himself from a Lake Tahoe vacation to finally view the devastation in Maui (before comparing that horror to a small kitchen fire in his Delaware mansion), then wandering out of a Medal of Honor ceremony Tuesday and leaving an 81-year-old Vietnam vet alone — a vet he awarded while maskless despite Jill Biden’s COVID diagnosis — the president will be in Alaska when the first bell rings at 8:46 am eastern time, marking the moment that first plane struck the North Tower.

Given that it’ll be 4:46 am in Anchorage – it’s fair to ask if Biden will even be awake.

[Biden will be returning from a trip to Vietnam on Monday, which is something that could and should have been scheduled at another time. This is an easy lay-up for presidents in terms of optics; Biden didn’t even need to go to one of the sites, but just followed the precedent set by George W. Bush and Barack Obama and made remarks from the White House. This is a complete set of nitwits in the West Wing. — Ed]