He is exhibiting an illogical flow of thought. When he loses it, we get “ well anyway” and he trails off. He’s trying to defend himself, but never answers a question in a manner that leads to a logical conclusion. He’s got brain damage from cerebral vascular disease which he’s had for a long time, but it’s getting progressively worse. This is excruciating for him and he’s not really comprehending the questions. Everything he says is to defend himself.
Part of the time he makes sense on yes and no topics, but he’s displaying circumstantiality-which includes extremely excessive detail and never makes his point leading to no conclusion. Then he displayed anger when he feels his ego has been threatened.
Physically, he can smile if he wants to, but other parts of his face are frozen from botox injections.
He will be VERY resistant to stepping aside, due to his current state of dementia as a result of progressive cerebral vascular disease. He needs a cognitive exam from a physician who specializes in geriatric psychiatry-not a neurologist.
I did try very hard, but following Biden’s train of thought is like tracking a canoe in the rapids, heading for the falls. It bounces against this and that, flips over, hits a solid object, splashes down, picks up speed and damage, and finally...”Anyway...” Gone.
Exactly. He will get confused and just use the “anyway” and mumble a bit and start talking about some other random topic.
I appreciate your analysis. I found him just plain confusing, and couldn’t follow what seemed to me to be a word salad, ringing around some buzzwords with no logical train of thought.
And, your recommendation of a geriatric psychiatrist rather than a neurologist also makes good sense, because he seems to make up stuff to make himself look good, but that are only confabulations of how he wants it to be, not how it is.
And, he seems to expect that we will believe these fantasies.
Spot on, and, very thorough explanations of his rambling, deflecting, anger, etc, doc!