At ages 81 and 77, do Joe Biden or Donald Trump possess the mental acuity to lead America, indeed the Free World?  Proponents and opponents point to candidates’ pronouncements seeming to reflect a grasp of the facts or delusions and lies. 

In less than a month I will have ridden Ol’ Earth around Ol’ Sol 87 times.  I like to believe my blog demonstrates that octogenarians are not always doddering old fools.  Some exhibit the cognitive dexterity to tackle and express reasoned consideration of thorny issues. 

For me the larger challenge posed by being President of the United States of America is having the energy, the physical strength, to perform its day-to-day tasks: the meetings, travel, speeches, rallies!

I am awed by Joe’s and Donald’s apparent stamina!  Their exertions appear to flow from a gut-level determination which very few of us, certainly I do not, possess.   

For falsifying a single document, a man who could not afford an attorney spent over two years in federal prison.  In a truly fair justice system, Donald Trump would long since have been locked up.

Injustice bought is justice denied.

Donald J. Trump is an enigma: a brilliant Grifter and astonishingly ignorant!  The plethora of instances supporting this hypothesis makes selecting a few akin to sampling dirty bath water with a thimble:

• Like a Prima Ballerina, Donald pirouettes through litigious minefields, making bonehead assertions that intravenous toxins might combat COVID-19 virus, wind turbines kill millions of birds and whales, and wet magnets don’t work.  
• In 2015 Trump labeled McCain “not a war hero.  He’s a war hero because he got captured.  I like people who weren’t captured.”  By extension, Donald views all Prisoners of War as not heroes.  In a The Atlantic article, September 3, 2020, entitled “Trump: Americans Who Died in War are ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’” Jeffrey Goldberg detailed numerous derogatory remarks by Trump regarding members of our armed forces, calling John McCain “a f****** loser.” 
• In a speech conflating America’s Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, July 4, 2019, Donald said, “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”  Manning “the air” and taking “over the airports” predates Orville and Wilbur by a century!
• Despite incontrovertible proof he lost America’s 2020 Presidential election, Donald insisting he won.  
• After, orchestrating an attack on the Capitol, Congress, and Constitution, pressuring State officials to overthrow valid 2020 election results, and absconding with thousands of official documents, Donald insists, “I did nothing wrong.”
• While hundreds who he ordered to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, are indicted or in prison, Donald roams free to spew lies and vilifications.
• He repeatedly brags about beating “Obama” in 2016.
• Non-Caucasians are, “poisoning the blood of our county.”
• President Biden might lead us into World War II !

On and on and on  .  .  . 

According to my go-to source Wikipedia, “The Washington Post’s fact-checker documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during (Trump’s) presidential term.  .  .  .  The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January 2017 to June 2019.”  The monthly graphs of these data are instructive.

If they were not so ominous, Donald’s pronouncements may be viewed as humorous.

Should this man to represent the United States of America?  Does he represent you?