Former Vice President and Democrat presumptive nominee 77-year-old Joe Biden said today he looked forward to debating 74-year-old President Donald Trump, a message saying he was perfectly capable of handling the challenge. But apart from normal gaffes made by Joe, Trump questions Joe’s his cognitive ability, sometimes forgetting where and what he’s talking about. If Biden wants to check out what he’s in for in debating Trump, he should look at the readily available tapes of Trump debating 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, someone far more articulate than Joe. Biden likes to talk about the “battle for the soul of the country,” but he doesn’t like to recite facts, especially when it comes to economy and other things he knows little about. Biden said he looks forward to debating but he should look carefully at the Trump-Hillary debates.
Trump’s media critics says he has no agenda for a second term but they tried to erase his first term agenda, involving growing the economy, building his border wall and preventing the U.S. military from more foreign entanglements. Yet the media pretends Trump has no agenda for a second term. Trump has said clearly he wants to defeat the “invisible enemy,” the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 and re-grow the U.S. economy, still reeling from the nationwide shutdowns that have driven the unemployment rate from 3.5% to 11.5%. “I would blame Fox more than I blame the president, because the president, it’s easy from him to digress here and there, but Hannity—you assume Fox wants him to get elected,” said Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). “Hannity should have got him back on the subject, referring to a June 25 town hall-type meetings in which Trump was asked about a second term.
Trump’s June 25 town hall was less about his agenda for a second term but more about dealing with salacious allegations contained in 71-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book, “The Room Where It Happened.” Bolton accuses the president of watching too much TV, rarely reading his presidential briefings, endangering the country by not paying attention to U.S. national security. Trump said he fired Bolton Sept. 10, 2019 for sabotaging U.S. diplomacy with North Korea, saying Trump should consider the “Libyan Model” for dealing with North Korea, involving toppling a sovereign state. Trump said that had he retained Bolton as NSA, he would have pushed the country into WW III, maybe a nuclear confrontation with the Russian Federation. Bolton’s got the anti-Trump media behind him besmirching the president with utter nonsense.
If Trump doesn’t give the media a one-line slogan for what he plans to do for a second term, it’s seen as having no agenda. Trump’s made it clear to everyone he plans to get the U.S. economy back on track after derailed by the coronavirus. Speaking on Sinclair Broadcasting June 26, Trump told former Fox News anchor Erick Bolling he plans to Make American Great Again, his 2016 campaign slogan. “We’re doing it—whether it’s trade, whether it’s military—all made in USA. It’s so important, Made in the USA,” Trump said, promising to bring back manufacturing. Explaining he wants more products made in America is not enough for the media. “We’ve got to bring back our manufacturing, and I’ve brought it back very big. But we have to make our own pharmaceutical products, our own drugs, prescription drugs, we have to make our own things . . .” Trump elaborated on a second term.
When Biden faces Trump in the upcoming debates, he’ll find he’s up against a formidable opponent, who went toe-to-toe with Hillary. Hillary fired her best shot at Trump, calling him Oct. 19, 2016 in the final Las Vegas debate, “a Putin puppet.” Biden’s going to find out the hard way that he won’t be spared any of his past his misdeeds, something he’s gotten a pass from the press, like Hillary in 2016, on his dealings in Ukraine with his 50-year-old son Hunter. Joe landed Hunter an $83,000 a month job on Ukraine’s corrupt Burisma Holdings Energy board, something the media says was not improper. Hunter admitted Oct. 15, 2019 that taking the Burisma job was “bad judgment,” reflecting unfavorably on his formerly vice president father. Joe likes to take shots at Trump from his basement during the Covid-19 epidemic, but, unlike his slick PR, he won’t have that luxury in a live debate.
Today’s media is so biased against Trump they find anything-and-everything wrong with his campaign, pressing the narrative that he’s losing in the polls. When you look at Trump’s debates with Hillary, someone far more capable that Joe, Trump not only held his own but beat Hillary at her own game. When Trump meets Biden on live TV, he knows how to play to the cameras far better than Joe. “An agenda to revive the economy after the pandemic, and restore the gains for workers of his first three year would appeal to millions,” said the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. “Perhaps Mr. Trump lacks the self-awareness and discipline to make this case. He may be so thrown off by his falling polls that he simply can’t do it,” said the WSJ, forgetting what Trump did to Hillary in the 2016 campaign. Whether admitted to or not by Democrats, they dread watching Joe go up against a more energetic Trump.
