Joe Biden, 83 years old and apparently still under the impression he matters, took the stage at the Maryland Democratic Party's "Fight Back and Win" summit on June 27 at the Live Casino and Hotel near Baltimore. He spent the speech attacking President Trump. Then he tried to leave the stage.
That's where things went sideways. Again.
According to LifeZette, Biden froze after finishing his remarks, turned to one side, and appeared to ask for directions on how to exit. He shuffled off only after someone apparently pointed him the right way. If this feels familiar, it's because we watched nearly the same thing happen days earlier at the Barack Obama Presidential Library opening in Chicago, where Biden wandered the stage asking "Where's my granddaughter?"
The speech itself was standard-issue Biden hostility toward President Trump, delivered with all the coherence we've come to expect. He claimed the economy was "a hell of a lot better than under Trump." He accused Trump of "tearing down the East Wing to make room for his ballroom" and "putting his name on the Kennedy Center." He called Trump "Woah, what a loser" and said "he has no shame." He described Trump's personal wealth as "simply stunning to me."
So the 83-year-old former president whose 2024 debate performance was so catastrophic it ended his own re-election campaign traveled to a casino outside Baltimore to call the sitting president a loser. Then he couldn't find the exit.
The audience, for its part, wasn't entirely on board. Reports indicate Biden was heckled during portions of the speech, which the Maryland Democrats branded as their big "Fight Back and Win" rally. Fighting back, apparently, means wheeling out the guy whose own party forced off the ticket two years ago because he couldn't string a sentence together on live television.
Here's what nobody in Biden's orbit seems willing to address. This isn't a one-off. The Obama library moment wasn't a one-off. The G7 summit in Italy where he wandered away from world leaders wasn't a one-off. There's a pattern, and the pattern has been visible since well before the 2024 debate made it impossible to ignore.
Jill Biden was reportedly present at the Maryland event. The Democratic Party apparatus invited him. His staff prepped the remarks. Everyone in that chain saw an 83-year-old man who has repeatedly become disoriented on stage and collectively decided this was a good idea.
The summit was called "Fight Back and Win." Biden attacked the most popular Republican president in a generation, got heckled by his own crowd, and then couldn't find his way off the stage.
The name of the summit was the only fight anyone won that night.