Does Donald Trump Really Believe Biden is Senile?

And is that why he accepted the terms of the debates? Oh, wait…

MartinEdic
4 min readMay 20, 2024

After his many claims that he will debate Biden, the current President called Trump’s bluff by calling for debates and initially the Trump team agreed. Then he started adding conditions, the first being a demand that Biden be drug tested.

The implication Trump is making is that Biden’s fiery State of the Union address was somehow the result of Biden being doped up, an absurd idea. The quick Trump agreement to Biden’s debate terms, including earlier than usual dates and no live audience, is giving way to excuses.

Trump has been constantly implying Biden is senile and you have to wonder if he actually believes his own baloney. We’ve seen the epithet Sleepy Joe get quietly dropped after witnessing Trump repeatedly falling asleep at his ongoing criminal trial in NY.

The Sleepy senile Joe claims lost most of their impact after the State of the Union address. It became hard to justify them after the country saw the President not only sharp and on point, but fully capable of throwing shade at the rudeness of the extreme right wing members in the audience. My guess is that was a shock to the Trump team who seem to live in a world of entirely made up beliefs.

If they really buy into their own talk it would explain Trump’s declarations that he would debate Biden at any time, under any conditions. After Biden accepted that…

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MartinEdic
MartinEdic

Written by MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!

Responses (11)

What are your thoughts?

Nah, imho the debates are not gonna happen. You cited the lack of an audience, but my guess is DJT is more worried about his mic being automatically shut off. He can't stay on topic for more than 20 seconds, then mindlessly rambles about dishwashers, shower pressure & electric cars.

So Biden agrees to a drug test if Trump agrees to an MRI head scan to be compared against one while he was in office and a two-finger test, on stage for everyone to see.

Trump's handlers cannot let the debates go ahead.Biden would wipe the floor with Trump and show him up for the vacuous fool he really is.