Once Upon a Time, Joe Biden Was the President

"I was appointed to the Academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972. (Laughter)" Amazingly, Biden also graduated from the Univ. of Delaware in 1965. https://t.co/5iPrzcpHZN via @whitehouse

— TSB (@TweetingTSB) May 29, 2022

Our POTUS is what may kindly be described as a serial fabulist. He always has been - if not worse (here) - but it seems that today his speeches are increasingly strewn with self-delusion. 

What else can we call it when he tells the Naval Academy graduating class that he received an appointment to Annapolis himself once upon a time when, in fact and beyond any argument, he did not?

Misremembering? Age-appropriate memory loss? Confusion and disorientation? Maybe vascular dementia, especially given that he had two brain aneurysms back in 1988.  

Right now, half of America and nearly all of its pundit class isn't calling his verbal symptoms anything at all, they're ignoring them. Maybe that benign neglect can go on for the next two-plus years.

If it can't, then maybe we'll have a first-ever constitutional issue around the removal of a President who is incapable of performing his duties.