A Democrat was trolled after claiming it’s Donald Trump – not 82-year-old Joe Biden – who is dealing with the greater mental decline.
During a spicy Republican-led hearing on Biden’s rapid decline over the course of his four-year presidency, Democrat Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) tried to flip the script on his Republican colleagues.
In his opening statement, Durbin attempted to paint Donald Trump, 79, as the one who is not fully mentally competent, not his predecessor Joe Biden.
To prove his point, Durbin brought up the recent incident of Trump saying the UK was the same thing as the EU.
A clip of Trump announcing the signing of the US/UK trade deal with Prime Minister Kier Starmer at the G7 meeting in Canada earlier this week quickly went viral.
‘Now, I’d like you to see a short video that includes some other examples of cognitive ability,’ Durbin stated, prior to cuing a video compilation of what he perceived to be gaffes, not from Joe Biden, but from Donald Trump.
After the video, Durbin asked his next question, asking ‘do any of these statements raise the question of cognitive ability?’
Standing alongside Starmer, Trump said on Monday: ‘We signed it and it’s done’, before mistakenly announcing the deal was with the European Union, rather than the UK.
He added: ‘It’s a fair deal for both. It’ll produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income.’
A Democrat was trolled after claiming it’s Donald Trump – not 82-year-old Joe Biden – who is dealing with the greater mental decline
And as Trump attempted to open a black folder with the signed agreement inside, several papers spilled out on to the floor, prompting Starmer to quickly bend down and intervene.
‘Oops sorry about that,’ the president said, before Starmer tried to brush off the gaffe by quipping: ‘It’s a very important document.’
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a document next to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as they speak to the media during the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney gestures where to look as he stands with French President Emmanuel Macron, left to right, United States President Donald Trump and United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer during the official family photo, Monday, June 16, 2025. Kananaskis.
A majority of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee did not show up to take part in Wednesday’s hearing.
Senate Republicans are doubling down on the efforts of Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, which has called former top Biden White House aides to appear for transcribed interviews.
A number of these former aides were subpoenaed last Congress, and had their subpoenas blocked by the Biden White House.
Joe Biden’s former White House Physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor has been issued a formal subpoena to appear before the House oversight committee, after not agreeing to appear before the committee voluntarily.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer announced earlier in June that he was issuing a formal subpoena to Biden’s former White House Physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
The move was the latest escalation as the top Republican-led committee ramped up its investigation into the ‘cover-up’ of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline.
Chairman Comer ordered O’Connor to appear for a deposition on June 27 before his committee.
Representative James Comer speaks during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic hearing in Rayburn building at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., on June 3, 2024
Kevin C. O’Connor, President Joe Biden’s former White House doctor has been issued a formal subpoena by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer.
Commenting on the importance of his investigation, Comer told members of the media earlier in June that the ‘American people deserve full transparency and the House Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation to provide answers and accountability. The cover-up of President Biden’s mental decline is one of the greatest scandals in our nation’s history.’
Comer’s subpoena comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s recent announcement via executive order, demanding a federal investigation into former President Biden’s staff.
‘This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history.’
‘The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts,’ Trump said in the order.
In his opening statement, Durbin attempted to paint Donald Trump , 79, as the one who is not fully mentally competent, not his predecessor Joe Biden
The US-UK trade deal has been signed and is ‘done’, US President Donald Trump has said after holding crunch talks with Sir Keir Starmer at the G7 summit
Under Trump’s order, all of the pardons, clemency grants, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and other presidential policy decisions issued by Biden will be investigated.
Actions under review would include Biden’s pardons for son Hunter and other family members and orders related to a variety of areas including education, immigration, health care, climate change and more.
Trump has argued the use of the autopen invalidates Biden’s orders. If his administration can get the courts to agree, it could undo thousands of actions taken by the former president.
It’s unclear which documents from the Biden administration were signed by the then-president and which may have been signed by an electronic pen.
Biden hit back at Trump hours after the executive order was signed, accusing the president of seeking out distractions to avoid criticism over bad legislation making its way through Congress.
‘Let me be clear,’ he said. ‘I made the decisions during my presidency.
‘I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.
‘This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans,’ Biden stated.
Biden added at the time that Trump and his allies ‘are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations.’
During his time in office, Biden was pictured signing some orders while in office, including ones on the use of AI and on gun safety issues.
Biden’s allies have pushed back on reports his mental and physical health were on the decline during his tenure.
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