Everyone from Mike Johnson to members of Joe Biden‘s own staff are commenting on the 82-year-old president’s noticeable decline in the last days of his presidency.
Biden, the oldest president in American history, had to drop out of his re-election race after a June debate disaster where he looked feeble and his mental faculties were called into question.
As he leaves office on Monday, more and more people are beginning to speak out on how much agency the president had as he’s set to dejectedly bow out after one term.
Johnson, who will retain his position as Speaker of the House under Trump and a Republican Congress, said that Biden bewilderingly told him in a January 2024 meeting that he ‘didn’t do’ an executive order that he had signed months earlier.
The order, announced on January 26 and still available on the White House website, placed a temporary pause on pending approvals of liquefied natural gas exports.
Johnson told The Free Press that he asked Biden: ‘Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. Why would you do that?’
Biden was surprised and said he didn’t, leaving Johnson stunned.
‘He genuinely didn’t know what he had signed and I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble – who is running the country?’ Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.’