President Joe Biden’s continued public decline was on display Tuesday as he appeared to forget how to sign a bill despite serving as an elected official since 1971.
“The second I’m signing is the establishment of the Highlands National Monument. Here we go. I gotta fill this in?” Biden asked a room full of onlookers as he attempted to sign a bill to designate the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument.
He stammered and eked out what sounded like it could be a mention of “Sáttítla,” the name of the new monuments, as he appeared confused.
“The day of?” he read from the bill before looking around and asking his staffers “you’ll fill in the dates here, guys?”
The onlookers laughed. “All right,” Biden said after the laughter died down.
As he signed the bill someone in the room reminded him of the date. “It’s the 14th, sir,” the man said.
“Well, I know that, but I don’t … Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Biden stammered before closing the bill and ending his remarks.
Biden, who first served in elected office as a New Castle County Council Member from 1971 to 1972, has spent over 50 years in government.
Confusion has been a common theme of the Biden presidency. (RELATED: Joe Biden’s Top 5 Gaffes Of 2024)
Biden confused the US-designated terrorist group Hamas, responsible for the October 7th terror attack and massacre against Israel, with Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party and paramilitary group which the US labels a terrorist organization.
“A hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas after more than 15 months of conflict that began with Hezbollah’s brutal massacre on October the 7th,” Biden said Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre once cast the coverage of his oft-repeated gaffes and public bouts of stammering as fraudulent, labeling a video of him wandering around as a “cheap fake.”
But the steady stream of embarrassing moments caught on film likely contributed to his bowing out of the Presidential race in July.
Lawmakers told The Wall Street Journal that aides and advisers were increasingly handling the presidential duties that Biden should have been doing.
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