President Joe Biden increasingly stops mid-sentence to start over with a new thought, correct himself, or go on a tangent, at a rate twice as frequent as when he was Vice President, according to a Daily Wire analysis of official White House transcripts.
The man who assumed the presidency in January 2021 was not the same speaker who left the vice presidency in January 2017, the analysis of thousands of speeches across 11 years showed. And the man who bumbled through remarks in recent months was not the same one who assumed the presidency just three years ago.
The president’s difficulties keeping his train of thought or speaking clearly are reliably reflected in official transcripts by em dashes, like this: “I sat down — and we were in Great Britain, in England — and I sat down, and I was sitting between as he used to go, ‘Boris!’ The former prime minister was an interesting…