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Clumsy Biden needs ‘visual instructions’ to enter and exit meeting rooms: report

Clumsy Biden needs ‘visual instructions’ to enter and exit meeting rooms: report

President Joe Biden’s event staffers are preparing detailed materials, including enlarged photographs of his exact path to the podium to accompany the octogenarian president at public events, he added. Axios The report reveals.

The report shows a document with images of a backstage hallway labeled “Walk to the Podium” to familiarize the president and his team with the path to the stage. The document was sent to other staff members as a template for preparations for future events.

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Despite White House assurances that such documents are standard practice for all presidents, the micromanagement of Biden’s precise movements behind the scenes underscores concerns about the 81-year-old president’s mental acuity. Biden has come under scrutiny after his disastrous debate performance. At least 10 House Democrats have called on Biden to step down, publicly and privately, including most recently Rep. Don Beyer (D., Va.), who said Biden should “step down now.” Two swing-district Democrats predict Biden will lose to former President Donald Trump.

The step-by-step instructions for getting to a venue’s stage have baffled some Biden staffers.

“I was surprised that a seasoned political professional like the president would need detailed verbal and visual instructions on how to enter and exit a room,” said one staffer who participated in the fundraiser. Axios.

“I had a simple fundraiser at a private residence, but they treated it like it was a NATO summit with his travel,” according to another Biden staffer.

White House officials have tried to downplay the importance of these documents as standard practice. “A high level of detail and precision is essential to presidential prep work, no matter who the president is, and these are basic approaches used by any modern prep team, including the vice president’s office and agencies,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.

These efforts to orient the president are aimed at preventing Biden from appearing lost and disoriented. Last month, while posing for a photo at the G7 summit, Biden appeared to wander off and stare aimlessly before Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni caught up with him. The White House quickly dismissed the videos as “poorly faked.”