Only Months Ago It Was Reported Biden Outsmarted Aides, But Now It’s Clear He Can’t Even Keep World Leaders Straight

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Last July, Axios ran a piece about President Joe Biden’s temper with his White House aides. Instead of framing this as “Old Man Yells at Cloud”-style fare, it was supposed to emphasize how the then-80-year-old president could outsmart his own aides.

“Biden’s temper comes in the form of angry interrogations rather than erratic tantrums,” Axios’ Alex Thompson claimed.

“He’ll grill aides on topics until it’s clear they don’t know the answer to a question — a routine that some see as meticulous and others call ‘stump the chump’ or ‘stump the dummy.’

“Being yelled at by the president has become an internal initiation ceremony in this White House, aides say — if Biden doesn’t yell at you, it could be a sign he doesn’t respect you.”

“If there is something that’s not in the brief, he’s going to find it,” said Biden’s longtime chief of staff during his time in the Senate, Ted Kaufman. “It’s not to embarrass people, it’s because he wants to get to the right decision. Most people who have worked for him like the fact that he challenges them and gets them to a better decision.”

That’s ol’ Joe. Always outsmarting his aides. Why, he was just testing them when he called Abdel Fattah el-Sissi the president of Mexico!

That “test” came during a media briefing arranged on Thursday evening after that afternoon’s release of special counsel Robert Hur’s report regarding the president’s retention of classified documents from his time as vice president after he left the White House.

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