MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Host Joe Scarborough angrily defended Joe Biden after a report this week citing congressional leaders who said the president is showing obvious signs of mental decline in private meetings.
On his show and social media, Scarborough lashed out at Republicans who were quoted in a Wall Street Journal article claiming that Biden is “slipping” in various closed-door settings. The piece specified that Biden’s allegedly diminished faculties are often apparent in private, though many observers regularly note indications of Biden’s physical and mental decline in public as well. Prominent Democrats, however, wasted no time in criticizing both Republicans and the Journal.
“Biden is far sharper, more intellectually curious, and far more insightful on global affairs than any House GOP speaker I have met over 30 years,” Scarborough wrote on X, formerly Twitter. During his show Wednesday, Scarborough also referred to “friends” who said French President Emmanuel Macron was impressed after a previous meeting with Biden. “Friends that I have in that French delegation, who were part of those negotiations … said that Macron came out like, ‘Wow, okay, he’s a lot tougher than we expected.’”
Scarborough also asserted that some people feel Biden is “too tough” in these negotiations, an attempt to bolster the president’s credibility in the wake of the Journal reporting.
Congressional Democrat leaders also eagerly defended the president, trying to clean up for the White House after the story was widely circulated among reporters and influential commentators on social media.
“Many of us spent time
