I think it’s fair to say that President Joe Biden has already eclipsed former President Jimmy Carter as the worst U.S. president in modern history.
Biden has presided over America’s most crushing, consequential and, above all, preventable defeat in any of our lifetimes.
Moreover, as the dust begins to settle on the fiasco, the entire world has become cognizant of the lasting damage this stumbling, bumbling president has inflicted upon our once great nation.
In an interview with Breitbart News last week, former President Donald Trump said he’s received calls from foreign leaders who are horrified by Biden’s disastrous execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“They can’t believe it. Just like you can’t believe it. Just like any sane, rational person can’t believe it,” Trump said. “We were going to get out — but we were going to get out with dignity and with honor. We were going to get out with all of the people. And we were going to take all of the equipment.”
Breitbart asked Trump if he would prefer to run against Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. Referring to Biden’s now obvious cognitive decline, Trump said “there’s something wrong” with him.
“Biden is not an old man, by the way, but there’s something wrong. But he is not an old man — he’s going to be 79; that is not old. … But something is wrong. Something is going wrong there. I don’t like to predict that far forward. It’s such a long time, and I don’t know — things are happening left and right.”
Although the Biden administration and the establishment media have tried hard to conceal the president’s diminishing mental acuity, it’s become too obvious to hide.
Biden’s approval numbers had begun to fall even before his misadventures in Afghanistan. The border crisis, inflation rates we hadn’t seen in decades, the spike in energy prices and his handling of the pandemic had already begun to take their toll.
It was his utter failure in Afghanistan, however, that put him in negative territory. His net disapproval rating currently sits at 4.1 percent, according to Real Clear Politics — 45.2 percent of Americans approve of his performance, while 49.3 percent disapprove.
Breitbart asked Trump about Biden’s slowness to take calls from foreign leaders following the fall of Kabul on Aug. 15. It reportedly took over 24 hours for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to finally reach him.
“I would imagine Biden was not in a mood to take phone calls at that point because he was getting hammered,” Trump replied.
Trump also had harsh words for former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the presidential palace amid the Taliban takeover, fearing a grisly death at the hands of the terrorists.
“I’ve always said Ghani was a crook and Ghani had total control over the U.S. Senate and, to a lesser extent, the House. That was his power. Once it became obvious we were leaving, I always said he would leave just prior to us, and I also said probably he’d take whatever he could take, and he took a lot of money. But Ghani was a total crook.”
Breitbart’s interview with Trump was conducted before explosive reports emerged about a July 23 phone call between Biden and Ghani.
According to a transcript and audio recording of the call, Biden urged Ghani — in what sounded dangerously like a quid pro quo — to convince the media that the Taliban was losing its fight for Afghanistan.
“There is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture,” Biden allegedly told Ghani.
During the Breitbart interview, Trump also explained why he believes the Afghan army surrendered so quickly to the Taliban.
“The soldiers were among the highest-paid soldiers in the world. You know who paid them? The U.S. taxpayer,” Trump said.
“When [former Secretary of Defense James] Mattis used to come up to me and say, ‘Sir, they’re fighting for the country,’ I would say, ‘No they’re fighting for a paycheck.’ … These were highly paid people, and that’s why they were doing it. Once the payments were going to stop, once we were leaving, they basically were going to stop fighting.”
Trump was asked about Harris’ decision to go ahead with a previously planned trip to Vietnam and other countries in the region in light of the crisis that had just erupted in Afghanistan.
His response? “It’s not a great time. She probably wants to get away. Who can blame her?”
“If you go by the polls, she hasn’t been doing too good,” Trump added. “She certainly hasn’t been doing too good.”
VP Harris has lowest feeling thermometer of any first year VP going back to Gore in 1993 … with an unprecedented “very negative” rating on @NBCNews survey tracking. pic.twitter.com/Ii3AlR5EZ2
“If they gave her the border, which supposedly they did, that’s a disaster. … The border is a disaster. The border is looking great now because compared to Afghanistan, the border is being well run. But it’s the worst border we’ve ever had, and I gave you the best.”
Asked to comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling forcing Biden to reinstate the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, Trump said it was “actually a favor to the Biden administration because it will make them look better.”
“It’s incredible. By us winning, it’s a favor to them because the news in the coming year won’t be as bad as it would have been otherwise.”
Trump has to be horrified by the reversal of nearly all of his administration’s policies and gains.
The phone calls he’s apparently received from foreign leaders are simply more evidence that the rest of the world is pretty horrified, too.
“I respect those who believe that life begins at the moment of conception — I don’t agree but I respect that,” Biden said.
Joe Biden says that he does not believe that life begins at conception despite his Catholic faith. This comes amid outrage from the left due to the Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks.
Joe Biden, who claims to be a Catholic, just said that he doesn’t believe that life begins at conception during a press conference following a disappointing jobs report. When asked by a reporter what he would do to “protect abortion rights” in lieu of the Texas law that bans abortion after 6 weeks, Biden said he stands by Roe v. Wade and that the Department of Justice will move to force the Lone Star State to allow on-demand abortion, according to a report by the Gateway Pundit.
Biden said that the Texas abortion ban was “unAmerican,” adding that “I respect those who believe that life begins at the moment of conception — I don’t agree but I respect that.”
BIDEN: "I respect those who believe that life begins at the moment of conception — I don't agree but I respect that."pic.twitter.com/OiATYRovzw
The new Texas law banning abortions after 6-weeks has caused widespread outrage among Democrats, liberal voters, and now, devil worshippers; who are arguing that the law violates their rights. In a September 2 Twitter post, the Satanic Temple said “Abortion laws in TX violate our religious rights and TST has taken legal action. If TX judges abide by the Constitution and legal precedent, then those who share our deeply held beliefs will be exempt from the state’s inappropriate efforts to restrict access to abortion services,” as National File reported.
Along with the devil worshippers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decried the Texas abortion ban, condemning the Supreme Court for their “cowardly decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health.” Speaker Pelosi has also signaled her support for Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to “enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America.”
Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill earlier this year that banned vaccine passports. The fines will start on Sept. 16 if people are asked to show proof of a vaccine. Violators will have the chance to appeal but, once the fine is finalized, they will have 30 days to pay.
Two of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, according to Endpoints News.
Doctors Marion Gruber and Phil Krause resigned after the Biden administration sidelined the FDA from major decision-making about Covid-19 vaccines.
The two could not support the White House’s expedited rollout of booster shots because the FDA has not determined whether booster shots are safe or effective.
Neither believed there was enough data to justify offering booster shots yet, notes The New York Times.
One former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA, notes Endpoints.
Dr. Gruber will leave in October, Dr. Krause in November.
A 32 year FDA veteran is quitting the agency due to the WH politically strong arming their decision making. If this doesn’t raise red flags among some of you, nothing will. https://t.co/om5VcnpxhC
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) August 31, 2021
Dr. Gruber is director of FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review (OVRR) and 32-year veteran of the agency.
Dr. Krause is OVRR deputy director and has been at FDA for more than a decade.
FDA former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio on Twitter referred to doctors Gruber and Krause as “two giants” of the industry. “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service,” Luciana said.
“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” said Former BARDA director Rick Bright. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
@US_FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service. https://t.co/hkLJPDo2HK
Associate professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health Jason L. Schwartz said, “This process has been the reverse of what we would normally expect in vaccine policy,” with the administration announcing plans based on a certain outcome before regulators can complete their review. “That has made it even more complicated and confusing for the public.”
BACKGROUND:
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on Aug 26 that it had found “Black substances…in syringes and a vial, with pink substances found in another syringe” within a lot of Moderna Inc.’s experimental mRNA vaccine, Reutersreports. 1.6 million vials were rejected.
The Supreme Court shocked the country on Wednesday when it allowed Texas’ new abortion law to go into effect while it is still being challenged in court.
The law bans all abortions of unborn children that take place after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which occurs at approximately six weeks into gestation, although exceptions can be made for medical emergencies.
Many pro-life activists have since pointed out that this law makes Texas the most pro-life state in America.
However, if one conservative governor is to be believed, the Lone Star State won’t hold that title for long.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to leave the pro-life TX law in place, I have directed the Unborn Child Advocate in my office to immediately review the new TX law and current South Dakota laws to make sure we have the strongest pro life laws on the books in SD.
“Following the Supreme Court’s decision to leave the pro-life TX law in place, I have directed the Unborn Child Advocate in my office to immediately review the new TX law and current South Dakota laws to make sure we have the strongest pro life laws on the books in SD,” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted Thursday.
If Noem holds true to her word in topping the Texas law, it would be quite an achievement for the pro-life movement, especially given how unprecedented Texas’ law is.
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down an attempt to stop the law from going into effect.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett all ruled in favor of allowing the law to go into effect.
Dissenting were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
One of the primary reasons the Supreme Court decided not to stop the law from going into effect was because the law does not rely on government enforcement.
Citizens are allowed to sue anyone who facilitates or aids and abets an abortion for at least $10,000.
President Joe Biden described the law as a “bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement” and on Thursday promised to “launch a whole-of-government effort” to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision.
However, if Noem gets her way, the president will have yet another pro-life law to take on.
Western Michigan University has failed to force its student body to get COVID vaccines under its vaccine mandate after a federal judge ruled on Thursday that they cannot require four Christian female athletes to get the jab because it would violate their religious rights.
On the last day for the Christian female athletes to get the COVID vaccine in order to be allowed to participate in school sports, District Judge Paul Maloney granted a temporary restraining order based on his discernment that “WMU’s vaccination requirement for student athletes is not justified by a compelling interest and is not narrowly tailored,” Newsweek reported. A hearing on the temporary injunction will take place on September 9.
The same judge had denied an earlier motion filed by a Michigan State University employee that challenged the school’s vaccine mandate. The Michigan university has not responded to the lawsuit and temporary restraining order.
The Associated Press reported that four Christian athletes who played on the Michigan university’s soccer team, Emily Dahl, Hannah Redoute, Bailey Korhorn and Morgan Otteson claimed that they were denied religious exemptions to play without getting the COVID vaccine, resulting in the case.
The Christian female athletes’ attorney David Kallman said in a statement that the girls are “grateful” that the Michigan court acknowledged that they have “a strong case for a religious exemption from this vacine requiremend and that they are “thrilled” to continue to be able to play on their soccer team and be with their teammates to compete for WMU “at the highest level in a safe manner.”
NTD reported that in a letter, Western Michigan University said that it “has a compelling interest in taking action to avoid the significant risk posed to the intercollegiate athletic programs of a COVID-19 outbreak due to unvaccinated participants, and prohibiting unvaccinated members of the teams from engaging in practices and competition is the only effective manner of accomplishing this compelling interest.”
The university required all athletes to get the COVID vaccine before participating in intercollegiate sports. But when the Christian female athletes requested for a religious exemption, it was immediately overridden. But the Michigan court’s restraining order now allows the Christian female athletes to remain on the team despite not getting vaccinated against COVID. The judge believes their case has merit as the university’s vaccine mandate violates their religious rights.
Following the full approval of the Pfizer COVID vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, up to 100 colleges across the country have implemented vaccine mandates, NPR reported.
Central Michigan University has decided that students may opt out of their vaccine mandate but must submit themselves for weekly COVID testing. The University of Richmond has set a deadline of September 8 for students and staff to get vaccinated. The University of Louisiana system’s nine institutions also require students who have enrolled to get the jab, while the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University announced its vaccine mandate following the full approval of the Pfizer COVID vaccine as well.
Apple has announced it will “take additional time” in the coming months to work on plans for flagging child sexual abuse material (CSAM), amid concerns from activists and rights groups over censorship and privacy issues.
“Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.
The delay follows a controversial announcement that was immediately met with calls to abandon the plans from civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Apple’s technology would scan photos and conversations for CSAM, using a program the company previously claimed would still protect individual privacy because the technology does not identify the overall details of a picture or conversation, or need to be in possession of either – though many critics have voiced their doubts.
The system uses a database of references or ‘image hashtags’ to recognize specific content to be flagged, though security experts have warned that such technology could likely be manipulated, or innocent images could be misinterpreted.
Even Apple employees have reportedly expressed concerns with the detection technology, worrying that it could be used to work around encryption protections, that it could easily misidentify and flag some photos – or even that some governments could exploit it to find other material. Apple maintains that it will refuse any requests from governments to use the system for anything other than child abuse images.
“iMessages will no longer provide confidentiality and privacy to those users through an end-to-end encrypted messaging system in which only the sender and intended recipients have access to the information sent,” read a letter from a coalition of more than 90 activist groups to Apple CEO Tim Cook on the potential changes.
The exact timeline for the current delay is unknown, but the new detection system was originally intended to be in use sometime this year.
General Motors will temporarily shut down eight of its 15 North American assembly plants for a week starting Monday because of a worsening global microchip shortage, according to ABC News.
Why it matters: The coronavirus pandemic and other disasters have disrupted supply chains for semiconductors, which are crucial for thousands of computer-controlled systems in new vehicles.
The shortage has forced GM to reallocate the chips it does have to a small number of plants that produce the company’s most popular and profitable vehicles, such as its SUVs and pickups, according to CNN.
The big picture: The chip shortage has caused new vehicle inventory to fall, leading to higher prices that fuel inflation, Axios’ Felix Salmon reports.
Relief for automakers and other producers that require semiconductors appears to be on the horizon as chip producers ramp up production to meet demand.
Let’s take a break from our chaotic exit from Afghanistan, the crappy jobs report that’s coming, the rising inflation, and Joe Biden’s dementia to circle back to the 2020 census data. It’s not something that gets you excited, but liberal America was popping champagne. These people are still hyper-focused on the wobbly demography is destiny mindset. A more diverse electorate means we win more elections; conservatism is dead. These sorts of data dumps are the black tar heroin for the Left and their moral superiority complex. The thing they were really harping on is the decline in the proportion of white Americans. The Trump voters. The GOP base—it’s all shrinking. It’s entertaining for sure, but also a tad pathetic. Public opinion can change—quickly. There are no permanent victories in a representative democracy. None. You’d think Democrats would have learned that after 2010. In a mere two years, the conversation went from ‘it’s the end of the GOP’ in 2008 with Obama’s election to the Tea Party wave in 2010. That only took two years. The GOP had their go with this permanent majority stuff in the Bush years. It will be a coalition that is focused on national security. That got washed away in the 2006 midterms.
Better yet, it’s a progressive political scientist who torched this narrative about the 2020 census and a permanent Democratic majority. Ruy Teixeira of the Center for American Progress is one of those people who talked about this theory of an emerging Democratic majority but has also said that his works has been glossed over and misrepresented by fellow liberals.
In a post on Medium, Teixeira just wrecks the Left’s hopes and dreams for future political dominance here. Namely that the big dip in white voters could be due to the race question in the survey that was tweaked in 2010 and could’ve caused confusion. He notes that because of that, America is probably whiter than the Left thinks. Second, white voters who vote is higher than their percentage of the overall population. The same cannot be said for nonwhites.
He then moves onto college-educated whites, the most insufferable people on the planet. It’s because of these people that Biden won. It wasn’t due to a spike in black voters or Hispanic voters, not even women can claim credit that they saved America from Trump. It was because of the most isolated, snobby, and privileged whites in America. The people who have narratives about race in this country that simply do not mirror reality in any way, shape, or form. It’s an academic exercise for them. It’s why nonwhites, blacks especially, are veering towards the GOP. The ‘defund the police’ antics are a white college-educated liberal invention. The term ‘Latinx’ for Hispanics is totally a white liberal invention—no one uses it. In short, these people are from Mars, which is why they alienate everyone, including traditional Democratic voter blocs that are simply not as ideological as these folks on everything, especially the issue of racial resentment. Also, even though they might vote Democratic a lot—blacks and Hispanics do not, and never have identified as ‘liberal’ in their political orientation. Speaking to people in the ‘college faculty lexicon’ will not work—and then they denigrate those who don’t agree with them.
Oh, and Teixeira notes these clowns are sticking around for a long time in Democratic circles. Going woke is not a recipe for success.
When it comes to Hispanic voters, it’s still not good news for Democrats and their demography is supremacy narrative. It’s the fastest-growing voter bloc. It has been for years, but as Teixeira has noted, among others, turnout is an issue. Yet, those who did swung towards Trump in 2020—big league:
As the Census documents, the biggest single driver of the increased nonwhite population is the growth of the Hispanic population. They are by far the largest group within the Census-designated nonwhite population (19 percent vs. 12 percent for blacks). While their representation among voters considerably lags their representation in the overall population, it is fair to say that voting trends among this group will decisively shape voting trends among nonwhites in the future since their share of voters will continue to increase while black voter share is expected to remain roughly constant.
And these Hispanic voting trends have not been favorable for the Democrats. According to Catalist, in 2020 Latinos had an amazingly large 16 point margin shift toward Trump. Among Latinos, Cubans did have the largest shifts toward Trump (26 points), but those of Mexican origin also had a 12 point shift and even Puerto Ricans moved toward Trump by 18 points. Moreover, Latino shifts toward Trump were widely dispersed geographically. Hispanic shifts toward Trump were not confined to Florida (28 points) and Texas (18 points) but also included states like Nevada (16 points), Pennsylvania (12 points), Arizona (10 points) and Georgia (8 points).
These reduced margins are why, despite Hispanics’ increased vote share in 2020, their contribution to Democrats’ improved national margin in this election was actually negative—that is, they made a negative one point contribution to Biden’s vote margin relative to Clinton’s in 2016.
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In this context, it is interesting to note that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement did not rate very highly among Hispanics. In the national exit poll, Hispanic voters were split close to evenly about BLM, 47 percent unfavorable to 49 percent favorable. This significantly trails not just black voters, but also white college graduates, who rated BLM 61 percent favorable to 35 percent unfavorable.
Consistent with this, Latino voters evinced little sympathy with the more radical demands that came to be associated with BLM. In VSG data, despite showing support for some specific policing reforms, Hispanics opposed defunding the police, decreasing the size of police forces and the scope of their work and reparations for the descendants of slaves by 2:1 or more.
An important thing to remember about the Hispanic population is that they are heavily oriented toward upward mobility and see themselves as being able to benefit from available opportunities to attain that.
“They are also patriotic,” added Teixeira noting “they would rather be a citizen of the United States than any other country in the world and by 35 points said they were proud of the way American democracy works.”
This does not bode well for Democrats who are all-in on hating America, white people, and denigrating this nation as irredeemably racist. Again, going woke isn’t a recipe for national success.
And then there’s the class issue which is appearing to be more of the determining factor concerning why Democrats will most likely fail at dominating national elections in the future. The working-class vote, both white and nonwhite, seems primed to frustrate Democrats:
But the focus on Democrats’ white working class problem, which is now widely understood, has obscured the problems Democrats have been developing with the nonwhite working class. While nonwhite voters as a whole moved toward the GOP in the 2020 election, working class nonwhites moved more sharply toward Trump than college nonwhites (12 margin points vs. 7 points, based on Catalist’s two party vote data). Surprisingly, working class nonwhite women actually moved more toward Trump (14 points) than working class nonwhite men (9 points).
It is particularly striking to note that since 2012, running against Trump twice, Democrats have lost 18 points off of their margin among nonwhite working class voters. That obviously undercuts the Democrat-friendly effects of rising racial diversity. This is underscored by the under-appreciated fact that working class voters still vastly outnumber college-educated voters. Among whites, working class voters were a bit over three-fifths of the vote. But among nonwhites, the working class contingent was a full two thirds of voters in 2020.
Hispanic working class voters were particularly likely to shift to the Republicans in 2020. Pew validated voter data show a 30 point shift toward the GOP relative to 2018 (2016 not available), more than twice the 14 point shift among college Hispanics. And in terms of support levels, the Pew data indicate that working class Hispanics gave Trump a remarkable 41 percent of their vote in 2020. This is especially noteworthy since the Hispanic vote is the most heavily working class nonwhite vote, pushing 80 percent working class according to Pew.
All this suggests trends among working class nonwhites will likely determine the future of the nonwhite vote—and therefore what benefit, if any, Democrats will derive from the race-ethnic trends identified by the Census.
He closed with a brief mentioning that the Democrats’ dispersion of its base is not efficient at all. They simply dominate areas that have already been in Democratic hands for years. What good is a massive spike in new Democratic voters if they already live in the San Francisco Bay area? We all know California is going blue, whereas the Trump coalition is probably one of the most efficiently dispersed in recent memory. Trump voters live, by and large, in areas where elections are determined which makes it lethal. And if nonwhite working-class voters, coupled with the white working-class that’s already abandoned the Democratic Party, swing towards the GOP—a lot of losing and woke tears are going to flow. Of course, things can change. The Democrats might get off the ‘woke’ wagon and focus on an agenda that—shocker—is popular with voters. Defunding the police and bailing out the most privileged with their college debt isn’t any of those things. It also highlights how shallow liberal thinking is when it comes to race since it’s apparent that many, if not all, think that a nonwhite American is a slam-dunk voter for the Democratic Party and liberal agenda items. It’s not.
Teixeira shot a warning flare with this post, adding that it’s “clear that the Democrats’ efforts to build and sustain a majority electoral coalition are not guaranteed in any way by the race-ethnic trends detailed in the Census data.”
“China will be our main partner and represents a great opportunity for us because it is ready to invest in our country and support reconstruction efforts,” Zabihulah Mujahid said in an interview.
The Taliban have announced that China will be their “main partner” and will help rebuild Afghanistan. According to Asia Today, the Taliban have an interest in China’s Belt and Road Initiative and see it as a revival of the ancient Silk Road.
“China will be our main partner and represents a great opportunity for us because it is ready to invest in our country and support reconstruction efforts,” Zabihulah Mujahid said in an interview. He believes China will be helpful in utilizing Afghanistan’s rich copper resources and will form a pathway to global markets.
Mujahid also said the damaged airport will soon be operational once again. “The airport should be clean within the next three days and will be rebuilt in a short time. I hope it will be operational again in September,” he said.
Former American envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley says China has ulterior motives. “We need to watch China because I think you are going to see China make a move for Bagram Air Force Base. I think they are also making a move in Afghanistan and trying to use Pakistan to get stronger to go against India. So, we have got a lot of issues,” she said.
Haley continues suggesting the President must connect with key allies. “The first thing you should do is immediately start connecting with our allies, whether it’s Taiwan, whether it’s Ukraine, whether it’s Israel, whether it’s India, Australia, Japan, all of them, and reassure them that we will have their back and that we need them as well,” Ms Haley said.
The Taliban took control of Afghanistan on August 15 after President Biden ordered the American military to abandon the country. The new regime is expected to form and announce its new government on Friday.
Donald Trump Says Biden Is Doing So Bad, Foreign Leaders Are Calling Him to Complain
I think it’s fair to say that President Joe Biden has already eclipsed former President Jimmy Carter as the worst U.S. president in modern history.
Biden has presided over America’s most crushing, consequential and, above all, preventable defeat in any of our lifetimes.
Moreover, as the dust begins to settle on the fiasco, the entire world has become cognizant of the lasting damage this stumbling, bumbling president has inflicted upon our once great nation.
In an interview with Breitbart News last week, former President Donald Trump said he’s received calls from foreign leaders who are horrified by Biden’s disastrous execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“They can’t believe it. Just like you can’t believe it. Just like any sane, rational person can’t believe it,” Trump said. “We were going to get out — but we were going to get out with dignity and with honor. We were going to get out with all of the people. And we were going to take all of the equipment.”
Breitbart asked Trump if he would prefer to run against Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. Referring to Biden’s now obvious cognitive decline, Trump said “there’s something wrong” with him.
“Biden is not an old man, by the way, but there’s something wrong. But he is not an old man — he’s going to be 79; that is not old. … But something is wrong. Something is going wrong there. I don’t like to predict that far forward. It’s such a long time, and I don’t know — things are happening left and right.”
Although the Biden administration and the establishment media have tried hard to conceal the president’s diminishing mental acuity, it’s become too obvious to hide.
Biden’s approval numbers had begun to fall even before his misadventures in Afghanistan. The border crisis, inflation rates we hadn’t seen in decades, the spike in energy prices and his handling of the pandemic had already begun to take their toll.
It was his utter failure in Afghanistan, however, that put him in negative territory. His net disapproval rating currently sits at 4.1 percent, according to Real Clear Politics — 45.2 percent of Americans approve of his performance, while 49.3 percent disapprove.
Breitbart asked Trump about Biden’s slowness to take calls from foreign leaders following the fall of Kabul on Aug. 15. It reportedly took over 24 hours for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to finally reach him.
“I would imagine Biden was not in a mood to take phone calls at that point because he was getting hammered,” Trump replied.
Trump also had harsh words for former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the presidential palace amid the Taliban takeover, fearing a grisly death at the hands of the terrorists.
“I’ve always said Ghani was a crook and Ghani had total control over the U.S. Senate and, to a lesser extent, the House. That was his power. Once it became obvious we were leaving, I always said he would leave just prior to us, and I also said probably he’d take whatever he could take, and he took a lot of money. But Ghani was a total crook.”
Breitbart’s interview with Trump was conducted before explosive reports emerged about a July 23 phone call between Biden and Ghani.
According to a transcript and audio recording of the call, Biden urged Ghani — in what sounded dangerously like a quid pro quo — to convince the media that the Taliban was losing its fight for Afghanistan.
“There is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture,” Biden allegedly told Ghani.
During the Breitbart interview, Trump also explained why he believes the Afghan army surrendered so quickly to the Taliban.
“The soldiers were among the highest-paid soldiers in the world. You know who paid them? The U.S. taxpayer,” Trump said.
“When [former Secretary of Defense James] Mattis used to come up to me and say, ‘Sir, they’re fighting for the country,’ I would say, ‘No they’re fighting for a paycheck.’ … These were highly paid people, and that’s why they were doing it. Once the payments were going to stop, once we were leaving, they basically were going to stop fighting.”
Trump was asked about Harris’ decision to go ahead with a previously planned trip to Vietnam and other countries in the region in light of the crisis that had just erupted in Afghanistan.
His response? “It’s not a great time. She probably wants to get away. Who can blame her?”
“If you go by the polls, she hasn’t been doing too good,” Trump added. “She certainly hasn’t been doing too good.”
“If they gave her the border, which supposedly they did, that’s a disaster. … The border is a disaster. The border is looking great now because compared to Afghanistan, the border is being well run. But it’s the worst border we’ve ever had, and I gave you the best.”
Asked to comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling forcing Biden to reinstate the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, Trump said it was “actually a favor to the Biden administration because it will make them look better.”
“It’s incredible. By us winning, it’s a favor to them because the news in the coming year won’t be as bad as it would have been otherwise.”
Trump has to be horrified by the reversal of nearly all of his administration’s policies and gains.
The phone calls he’s apparently received from foreign leaders are simply more evidence that the rest of the world is pretty horrified, too.