Time Magazine just published an interview with President BIden. The interview actually took place one week ago so some of the details discussed may not be up to date but many of the topics cover a much longer time scale.

What comes across in the interview is the same Biden we see on television every day. He's absolutely cocksure about everything he says but he's also often completely wrong on the facts and sometimes seems a bit confused or mumbles and trails off. But I wanted to focus on this part of the interview that deals with inflation.

Cumulative inflation means that prices are up 18%, at least since you took office and wage increases have not kept pace.

Biden: Since who took office? Since I took office? 

Yeah, cumulative inflation means prices are up nearly 20% since you took office and wage increases have not kept pace. 

Biden: Wage increases have exceeded what the cost of inflation, which you're talking about as the prices that were pre-COVID prices. Pre-COVID prices are not the same as whether or not they—you have American, corporate America ripping off the public now. You have everything from shrinkflation to what's going on in terms of the way in which they're artificially moving significantly to increase their, their, their, their, their profits. That's not the same as inflation. That's price gouging.

This is false as Time pointed out in a fact-check on the interview:

What Biden Said: “Wage increases have exceeded what the cost of inflation…”

The Facts: New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows hourly wage growth topping inflation for the past 12 months. In April, nominal hourly earnings were up 3.9% from a year ago; inflation held at 3.4%. But cumulative inflation has outpaced wage growth for most of the Biden presidency.

Biden has made this mistake before. Even Politifact called him on it back in January 2023.

Wage increases have outpaced inflation over the past two quarters. However, wages had fallen significantly behind inflation before that, and the recent improvements have not yet dug out of that hole.

Raw wages, unadjusted for inflation, have risen every quarter of Biden’s presidency, and generally at higher rates than wages rose under his predecessor, Donald Trump. 

But once you adjust for inflation, many of these gains disappear. Real wages — that is, inflation-adjusted wages — fell or were unchanged during the first six quarters of Biden’s presidency.

Does Biden know he's wrong about this? He doesn't seem to. And immediately after that, the interview turned back to China and tariffs. This is a good example of Biden getting confused.

But Mr. President, won’t your newly announced tariffs raise the prices on American consumers?

Biden: No, because here's the deal. There's a difference. I made it clear to Putin from the very beginning that—I'm not, we're not engaging in…For example, Trump wants a 10% tariff on everything. That will raise the price of everything in America. [Editor’s note: Biden appeared to mean Xi here, not Putin.] 

Yes, he's talking about Xi Jinping not Putin. It would be understandable if the discussion had just been about Russian and Putin but look for yourself. The subject has been Asia and China and Xi Jinping prior to this. There was a discussion of Russia and Ukraine but that was at the very start of the interview.

And then the topic turns to immigration and, once again, Biden seems delusional.

Okay, I'm gonna do a couple of rapid fire here. Another of your first acts as President under the banner of value-based leadership was to lift various punitive Trump-era immigration measures, Mr. President, that you and others said were inhumane. In retrospect, do you think those humanitarian moves helped drive record illegal border crossing? 

Biden:  No.

Were you wrong to lift any of those measures?

Biden: If I was wrong, it’s because I took too long,

There's really no doubt about what actually happened here. Biden lifted or reversed all of Trump's efforts at Border control and immediately the number of migrants at the border shot up and have remained extremely high until we hit an all time record in December of 2023. The bottom line is that Biden is clearly responsible for what happened. In fact, Biden himself predicted it could happen before he even came into office. The Washington Post published an excellent story about how this happened back in April 2021:

Biden seemed eager to temper expectations when he laid out his immigration policy plans a month before inauguration. His administration wanted to ensure “guardrails” were in place, he said, to avoid having “2 million people on our border.”

“It’s not going to be able to be done on Day 1, lift every restriction that exists,” he said, “and find out that and go back to what it was 20 years ago and all of a sudden find out we have a crisis on our hands that complicates what we’re trying to do.”...

The prudent tone Biden’s team sounded in December was harder to detect on Inauguration Day, as the guardrails started coming off. Biden issued more executive orders and actions on immigration than any other topic, including a 100-day deportation moratorium and a halt to border wall construction...

Word soon spread that families with children younger than 7 years old were being allowed to enter the United States and released from custody. Families fitting that profile began rushing to that span of the border, where U.S. agents were already overwhelmed by soaring numbers of teens and children arriving alone...

More migrant families were arriving, too, and with Mexico only taking back a limited number, the Biden administration released more and more parents with children into border towns and cities. Biden officials continued to insist they were expelling the majority of the families crossing the border. It wasn’t true; statistics show fewer than half were being sent back.

Not only did Biden know this could become a crisis before he took office, he promised to move cautiously to prevent that from happening. And then he completely failed to do that. He moved too quickly and sent a message back to Central America that the border was open to families and within months the number of migrants started shooting upwards.

So it's pretty remarkable that 3+ years later, Biden is claiming the only mistake he made was that he "took too long." That's not what he was saying at the time and it would only have made the situation worse. He is either delusional on this issue or just lying in hopes that no one remembers the truth.

Finally, this is just too weird not to include. Biden was asked about his age and suggested he could "take" the interviewer who asked the question.

At one point, Biden was asked if he could still do the job "as an 85-year old man" who will be considered "too old to lead" by many Americans if he wins a second term.

"I can do it better than anybody you know. You’re looking at me, I can take you too," Biden told TIME, including Washington Bureau Chief Massimo Calabresi and Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs. 

Fox News reports it as a joke. I guess it was but it's still sort of a weird thing to say. Does anyone think Biden is in condition to take on anyone physically? Get real.

On three of the biggest issues he faces in this election, inflation, immigration and his own fitness for office, he seems out of touch with reality.