Not well (stairs)

In The Atlantic, Tom Nichols says it plainly: “The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay” (gift link).

A spoken sample, from this transcription, with slight corrections by me. You can see most of it here:

“America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling downstairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling downstairs. I said, it’s not our president. We can’t have it. I’m very careful, you know, when I walk down stairs for, like, I’m on stairs, like these stairs, I’m very — I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall, ’cause it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy, and we don’t want that. You walk nice and easy. You’re not having — you don’t have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don’t — don’t pop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen it. Dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah, bah, bah, bah. He’d go down the stairs. Wouldn’t hold on. I said, it’s great. I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it. But eventually, bad things are gonna happen, and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. This country was going to hell.”

I think it’s safe to say that Stephen Miller did not write this chunk of wordage. And since the current occupant is always projecting, I think it’s reasonable to wonder whether he recently had a bad fall.

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