When I saw this video I was in two minds how to view it or what opinion to take about it. Whilst like anybody else in this world it is possible for even the President of the United States to go wrong with public speaking, most of us and indeed most US Presidents don’t make the sort of mistakes that involve uttering a slurred word that sounds rather too much like ‘N***er’. Biden’s gaffe, made at a virtual security meeting with European political leaders may have been a misreading of a Teleprompter,or it might be yet more evidence of Biden’s cognitive decline.

Look, I’ll put my hands up here and confess my errors to show that we are all capable of errors. I once said ‘incest’ instead of ‘insist’ in a speech and my crappy level of French once led me to introduce myself with the word ‘enceinte’ (which means ‘pregnant’) instead of ‘enchante’ which I was using to mean ‘delighted to meet you’. I also once spelled ‘Libya’ as ‘Labia’ on a Customs document which I thankfully caught before transmission. We are all fallible with words because we are all human. However, I’m not the President of the United States speaking at a major international political event. The very least we should expect from the holder of such a high office is to not misread a Teleprompter script so badly that the word sounds like ‘N***er’.

This video has been obtained and is being shared around by Steven Crowder of the ‘Louder With Crowder’ show. I must admit that if this video had come from another source then I might have been tempted to pass it by, but Mr Crowder is more credible a source than most and also more trustworthy than most. I really don’t believe that there is any deceptive editing here and I believe that this clip of the latest Biden gaffe, which can be found at around 1:20, is genuine.

I’ve played the relevant section of this clip over and over again and it really does sound like he’s saying ‘N***er’. I’ve tried to look for alternatives to what he said and it’s unmistakeable. Was he trying to repeat the words ‘I’m eager to hear next…’ and got it wrong or maybe trying to move onto some other phrase but mangled it? I don’t know but this is a pretty bad Biden gaffe.

It’s also worth checking out the silent footage that precedes the Biden gaffe and Mr Crowder’s introduction of it as it shows Joe and Jill Biden sitting in what I presume is the White House. When you look at Biden’s face it is a face that does not look like it belongs to a person in full possession of his cognitive abilities. Instead it looks like the face of all too many people whom I’ve seen with dementia or other age related cognitive problems. It might be cruel to say this but these are the sort of facial expressions that you see on people and wonder if they are OK to be out on their own or whether they’ve lost contact with their carer.

Now I’m old enough to remember the very many jokes about Ronald Reagan’s cognitive abilities that circulated around the UK when Mr Reagan first became President, such as the famous ‘cretin president’ sketch by the Not The Nine O’Clock News team. However Ronald Reagan, even in his second term and he was starting to suffer the early symptoms of cognitive decline was never as publicly disconnected from reality as Joe Biden appears to be. Joe Biden’s decline is simply shocking and he looks increasingly like a man who should not be occupying the office that he holds.

What bothers me about this gaffe apart from the gaffe itself is that it may well be only conservative aligned media that covers this story and picks it up. The vast majority of mainstream media outlets, which lean to the Left and which are the outlets that most Americans seem to rely on for their news, may well ignore this story in order to protect their man. This means that the vast majority of Americans will be kept in ignorance about yet another gaffe made the man who is their Commander in Chief and their country’s main voice on the world stage.