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

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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

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