I have defended this man. If he's still the nominee in November I'll still vote for him. But god dammit this is fucking terrible.

I do not have hope for him being replaced but I sure think he should be. Whoever is telling him that he should keep running is guilty of elder abuse.

Honestly, that this is the headline from the meeting is kind of ridiculous.

I absolutely think Biden should step down and hand the torch to whoever is best able to make the case for their beating trump between now and the convention.

But he was always slipping up with word switches over his career.

He was actually very on top of the policy nuances in this Q&A - 1,000x better than Trump could have dreamed of being.

The one word switch in an hour of nuanced policy discussions as the headline is more a failure of the media than Biden.

Even though he def should be making way as his decline is going to get worse and more info is going to come out.

This is legitimately scary. Trump does this every second, now Biden is doing it every other conference. 4 years ages anyone, let alone the man in charge of NATO, the biggest economy, and running for re-election.

I am genuinely starting to be at a loss. I understood the life long stutter, I understood people age differently, I understood that soundclips and sneaky edits can make things look bad, but Jesus Christ. Is this the same day as the "President Putin"?

This is sad.

Great we're going to be set back hundreds of years because an old Democrat refused to step down...

AGAIN.

The way media works, any good he might have gotten out of the speech or question and answer session is going to be completely overshadowed by this flub.

I completely got what he meant. But it's another bad moment.

Overall, the whole impression I got was grandpa Joe giving storytime. I just don't think that's what we need at this time.

He needed a home run to have any chance of unfucking this. He's hitting a single. He's a detriment to the ticket from here on out, I think.

Straight up witnessing elder abuse. My grandfather was getting so old that he was making basic mistakes while driving. We took the keys away because he could hurt someone.

The fact that they're allowing this man to humiliate himself and this country over and over again speaks to the cruelty of the people who are still covering for this.

Sigh... Well, that's it. I think he's done.

For the last five years, Republican attacks on Biden's age and health have been continuous and stupid. For 4.9 of those years, they've been clearly and utterly baseless, which is what makes this doubly infuriating.

He's had good moments since the "debate," several of which were good enough to make me think he was fine and this was just more Republican bullshit. And even the debate itself, I thought he warmed up after the first twenty minutes or so, and was happily willing to believe he really did just have a cold + jet lag + the general lack of resilience that comes with very old age. Hell, get me sick and then hopped up on cough medicine and I become completely incoherent.

But this... This is two weeks later, and he still couldn't hold it together. He still seemed listless and intermittently uncertain what was going on.

Maybe this is old age catching up to his speech impediment. Maybe it's not an actual decline, it's just the stress of the job and a lapse in his ability to make his mouth do what his brain wants it to do. Maybe.

But even if that's the case, even if that's all it is, communication is a core responsibility for the President of the United States of America. And for whatever reason, be it cognitive issues or just an inability to clearly talk, he simply isn't communicating well anymore.

I hate saying this. I really do. He's been a very good president. But he should step down and let Kamala Harris take the reins. It's time.

This was surreal. To his credit he eventually got into his groove as he moved through his list of approved journalists.

He also referred to Zelenskyy as "President Putin"

Sooo Trump has been doing this for years too... can we just kick them both out the race and do-over please?

There's really no way to express how sad this is. We really don't want the fascist to win, but it's time to lay your burdens down, Joe. We love you, but give it up.

And here come the sound bites.

This is the problem. I don't want to excuse Biden, but even if 95% of the speech is fine, the 5% is all 99% of readers will ever see.

Then he said he was going to defeat VP trump...

And.i honestly don't know if he meant he'd beat Kamala and be the candidate in the general or if he meant he'd beat Trump in the general?

At least he tried his Best!

This is getting kinda sad, bro should be sitting at home.

omg, this guy has to be finished. He cant even hold it together this long. wow

Eh, if you actually watch the video and don't take it out of context you realize he meant Harris, bcz he later refers to how they can beat trump. Sometimes you say the wrong thing, I've done it before and I'm barely into my 30s, and nobody accuses me of being senile.

To be clear, he should have stepped down a long time ago, and I'm not really a fan of Biden. But he's been making mistakes in speeches like this his entire career. It wasn't until he became president that everyone started losing their mind over it.