Youād think President Joe Biden wouldāve learned in 50 years in elected office how to hanź§dle tough questions with grace.š§ Yet he got testy with NBC anchor Lester Holtās simple question about historic inflation on his watch.
āWell, youāre being a wise guy with me a little bit,ā Biden snarked after Holt noted that the prez had claimed in July that inflation would be temporary. (The prez really hates the topic: He got caught on a live mic calling the last reporter to ask him about inflatiį©į©į©į©į©į©ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤į©ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤į©ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤į©š±į©į©į©on āa stupid son of a bitch.ā)
In July, inflation was ; when it kept rising through November, Biden said it had likely peaked. But it’s even higher now, so he’s reduced to telling Holt his advisers say it may āstart to taper off as we go through this year.ā
Biden’s testiness wasn’t the half of it. He got utterly flummoxed by Holtās questions about all the governors (mostly Democrats) rolling back mask mandates against the feds’ advice. He simultaneously referred to the actions as āprematureā and āa tough call,ā among a lot of othāer word salad.
Then he claimed thereāll be āless and less requirement to have the maskā as more children under 7 are eligible to get vaccinated. Huh? The feds OK’d jabs for all kids age 5 and up in November.
The root reason Biden alternately rages and rambles, of course, is that he has no good answers. He won’t own up to how his own policies have goosed inflation, nor to the politics behind his administration’s outdated COVID policies.
He’s got nothing good to say, and can only dodge the press so much. Until he changes course, he’s only going to look ever worse.