President Joe Biden isnāt exactly known for his eloquence these days, but Iād always attributed his occasional (OK, concerningly frequent) slips of the tongue to his age (heās 79) and, possibly, cognitive decline.
I have no theories, however, about his frequent use of a word that is not in the English language.
The word is āexpodentially.āĀ This is how Biden seemingly pronounces the word āexponentially.ā
And no, Iām not talking about once or twice when he had a cold or a touch of hay fever and his āNā sounded slightly like a āD.ā
Iām talking about dozens of instances in which he very deliberately and clearly said āexpodentially,ā which is neither how you pronounce āexponentiallyā nor a word in its own right.
The conspicuous overuse of this non-word was observed by members of the Republican Partyās media team, as the official @GOP Twitter account shared a Video that included numerous examples, back to back, of Biden employing this odd butchering of the English language.
Itās pretty stunning.
This isnāt one of those videos thatās just a collection of deceptively edited clips to make it look like, say, an apolitical teenager in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who shot three people in self-defense is a scary white supremacist.
Just, you know, to pick a totally random example of how Twitter videos can be deceptively edited.
No, the collection of clips the GOP managed to acquire is jaw-dropping, and the way Biden mispronounces āexponentiallyā gets, well, exponentially weirder throughout the short clip.
Check it out:
This is not the first time I have asked this question, and I doubt it will be the last: What on earth is going on with Joe Biden?
Typically, we draw attention to his brain freeze moments before the teleprompter or the times heās forgotten things such as where he is, what office he was running for or the name of the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and the person he picked to fill this Cabinet seat, all at once.
These are all consistent with a man who, at the very least in appearance only, has a hard time staying focused, using a teleprompter and remembering simple information that is highly pertinent to the tasks on hand.
Iāve been suffering from a severe case of mom brain for nearly a decade now and probably forget why Iāve walked into a room or mixed up my kidsā names at least once a day. Of course, Iām not the leader of the free world and I donāt have access to the nuclear codes.
Nonetheless, sure, we could say that just because Biden is alarmingly foggy-brained doesnāt necessarily mean heās going to blow us all up because he got his Video game controller mixed up with the nuclear football.
Thereās a whole team of people around him to keep him on track, right?
After all, we know that Biden has expressed a fear that heāll āget in troubleā if he takes too many questions from reporters.
We know that there are people to write him helpful notes about whatās on his chin when heās on live TV.
We know that there are plenty of people in the White Houseās employ who are not above ushering the septuagenarian president around, particularly when heās getting dangerously close to the nosy White House press pool.
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We even know that there are rumors of a strategy called āThe Wallā that Biden staffers use to shield him from those darn intrusive reporters.
So itās pretty well-established that Biden has handlers, and that they look out for him so as to prevent him from making a fool of himself ā at least, they try.
This raises the question ā why hasnāt anyone told him that āexpodentiallyā isnāt a word?
I mean, we all remember how the entire world reacted when President Donald Trump nonsensically included the words ācovfefeā and āhamberderā in tweets ā the former positively dominated the news cycle for days, if memory serves me.
But Biden consistently uses a word that doesnāt exist and no one bats an eye.
What gives?
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.