Watch: Biden Struggles to Pronounce Cabinet Secretary’s Name – Then Gives Up

President Joe Biden is reportedly not happy that his poll numbers are sinking, and his image as a steady leader is being called into question. But he appears to be doing little himself to help stop the bleeding. During…

Bradley CortrightJun 1, 20224 min read

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“Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign,people close to the president say,” per NBC.

And according to NBC, “Biden is annoyed that he wasn’t alerted sooner about the baby formula shortage and that he got his first briefing in the past month, even though the crisis had long been in the making.”

Yes, Biden walked into the White House as the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. And yes, inflation was already rising as demand rebounded from March 2020.

But his policies and his handling of a variety of crises have not helped either. Economists estimate that his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package fueled inflation.

And while Biden argued that former President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal agreement with the Taliban essentially put him in a box, he said in August that he does “not regret my decision” to follow through with the withdrawal at the time.

His image has also suffered as a result of his frequent and awkward gaffes or moments when he appears to have a hard time reading the teleprompter, or forgets the name of his Defense secretary.

And then there are the multipletimes the White House had to clean up the president’s pronouncements on major issues, such as when he stated that the U.S. would get militarily involved to defend Taiwan.

Or when he said in Poland in March, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” about Russian President Vladimir Putin. The White House clarified that Biden was not calling for regime change.

Biden needs to get some message discipline and start speaking more like the president where his words are treated as U.S. policy and not like a senator — where he can spout off his opinions freely — especially when it comes to issues that could lead to nuclear war.

And he needs to stop deflecting blame and claiming that “no one” predicted a certain outcome, as he did with Afghanistan, or the Omicron surge, or the baby formula shortage.

But he also needs staff who can better prepare for issues before they explode on the national stage, such as a winter surge of Covid cases, or baby formula shortages caused by the Food and Drug Administration shutting down a major plant.