Psychiatrist shares analysis of Joe Biden’s gaffes at Nato summit

Consultant psychiatrist shares analysis of Joe Biden's mistakes at Nato summitSource: LBC

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00:00He looked like he was having to concentrate very hard all the time to string a sentence

00:05together and even the clip you played where he got the word neurologist right eventually,

00:10he was searching for the word and you could see that. In other words, sometimes it's not

00:14what you say but it's the way you say it that would make people a bit worried about cognitive

00:20decline. He looked like he had to concentrate really hard to say some basic things and also

00:26he was very hoarse and he coughed quite a lot and that could have been a nervous cough,

00:30it's not clear, but the fact that often he would careen down a sentence, pause like he was not

00:37thinking very hard about where to go next and then veer off in a strange direction. So it's

00:42not just the content which is obviously easy to report when someone gets a word wrong but

00:47there's something more subtle but also quite worrying going on about the way people speak

00:52and he just didn't fill you with confidence. Now the other thing I have to say is even if

00:56he passed a cognitive test, which he's claiming he's done right, the bar is very low to pass the

01:04bar that you're not demented. We require the President of the United States to not just be

01:09not demented, we're requiring him to perform at a very high level and what we were seeing was even

01:15if the performance was one of someone who's trying hard to dispel the idea I'm not demented,

01:21was it a performance that would dazzle you because that's what we need, don't we? I mean

01:26are we looking for someone who's not just passing an IQ test at the very low bar that gets you past

01:32the IQ test but are we looking for someone who's going to dazzle us?