Joe Biden Calls Tornado-Ravaged Town ‘Rolling Stone’ – President Joe Biden repeatedly referred to the town of Rolling Fork, Miss., as “Rolling Stone” during a stop in the town to examine the damage caused by a tornado a week earlier.
What Happened Now?
The EF 4 tornado touched down near Rolling Fork and remained on the ground for 80 miles. The small town is a predominately black community located in one of the poorest counties in Mississippi. The tornado flattened houses and uprooted trees. It destroyed most of the town’s businesses.
“We’re not just here for today, I’m determined that we’re going to leave nothing behind. We’re going to get it done for you,” Biden said during his speech. “I’m making sure you got a place to sleep, food to eat, helping you rebuild your lives in Rolling Stone.”
Biden made the gaffe twice during the speech.
“The town of Rolling Stone will be back, and we’ll be with you every step of the way,” he said the second time.
The president then caught himself, calling the town by its correct name of Rolling Fork, and joked about his state of mind.
“Rolling Stone. I got my mind going here,” Biden said.
Republicans have made an issue of the president’s mental competence since the 2020 presidential campaign. They continually question his cognitive abilities.
“We begin tonight with Joe Biden, like many elderly Americans suffering from a very steep cognitive decline, Biden has good days and he has bad days,” Fox News host Sean Hannity said last month. “Unfortunately, this week has not been good at all.”
Former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, has repeatedly accused Biden of cognitive decline.
“I have long said there would come a time when I was not the only one discussing Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. That time is now. As Democrats in the West Wing and the broader Democrat Party express discontent about his age-related decline,” Jackson told Fox News last year.
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley suggested that politicians receive a cognitive test, jabbing against Biden and former President Donald Trump. First Lady Jill Biden hit back.
“We would never even discuss something like that,” Jill Biden said. “How many 30-year-olds could travel to Poland, get on the train, go nine more hours, go to Ukraine, meet with President [Volodymyr] Zelensky?”
The First Lady continued: “Look at the man. Look what he’s doing. Look what he continues to do each and every day.”
Joe Biden the Gaffe Machine
Biden has been a gaffe machine for decades, beginning long before anyone could question age-related issues.
During the 2008 campaign, Biden notoriously told Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair to stand up.
“I’m told Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up Chuck, let ‘em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about. I’ll tell you what, you’re making everybody else stand up, though, pal,” Biden said during a campaign stop.
The president also referred to Barack Obama as “Barack America” during a campaign event in August 2008.
Gaffes and misstatements are just Joe Biden being Joe Biden.
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John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award in 2008 for his reporting.
Andreas Brecht
April 2, 2023 at 4:51 am
Even in his prime FJB was dumber than a rock but he has a solid majority with the dead constituency. So he is all set for a second term
lmb
April 2, 2023 at 6:23 am
WOW. Some GOTCHA. I’m glad we don’t all have reporters tracking our every move, how busy you’d be documenting every time in a day someone said the wrong word.
Are you too young to realize this occurs with everyone, in everyday conversations?
If you want to “prove” something is wrong with Joe Biden, you’re going to have to do better than “He called Rolling Forks, Rolling Stone then corrected himself.”
A slow news day means you go see congress and write about something substantive, unless your J-school didn’t teach you how to write actual news.
Scott Wentworth
April 2, 2023 at 3:19 pm
I’ve seen a series of Captain Obvious type of articles from 1945 lately, we can just add this to the pile. Everyone has known Joe Biden is senile since before his election. When he was in his prime, he wasn’t all that prime.
E power
April 3, 2023 at 11:36 am
“Are you too young to realize this occurs with everyone, in everyday conversations?”
You’re obviously a shill This man’s mental decline has been obvious for years, and hand-waving and denial won’t hide it. He told a guy in a wheel chair to stand up, looked for a dead woman at her funeral, called his presidential run the ‘Harris-Biden’ campaign.
E.T
April 8, 2023 at 11:23 am
How can he still be be in office and run the country and dont know where the hell he is. what the hell is wrong with you put him in a nursing home he wont know were he is anyway.
GLJ
April 8, 2023 at 1:10 pm
Defund Planned Parenthood
Anthony
April 8, 2023 at 3:05 pm
What a frigging joke. The man works his a** off for this nation and this worthless website mocks him for a mistake about the name of the town. What about the idiot we had before him that stared at a full solar eclipse, said we had airports in the 1700s, wanted to drop a nuke on a hurricane and most of all told people to drink bleach to prevent covid, take horse medicine and caused millions of Americans to die due to his poor handling of the Pandemic. Biden admits his mistakes. trump lies and hides top secret nuke codes to sell to Putin and other dictators.
Ralph
April 9, 2023 at 10:57 am
Anyone that believes Biden is or ever has been good for this country needs to be be put in the room next to Biden.
Peter Dohan, MD
April 10, 2023 at 12:06 pm
As a retired physician, I am really impressed that you can diagnose Biden’s obvious severe dementia because this ‘vette loving POTUS said ” Rolling Stone” rather than “Rollingwhatever”. Please publish your methodology and results, ASAP. The geriatrics need them ( includes me). The New England Journal of Medicine is a recommended journal. Perhaps the fact that Joe has always been a gaffe-machine without an increased incidence (#/yr) is pertinent.
In this the same “Dr.” Jackson who said that Trump was supremely fit to be POTUS? Just asking!
soljer blue
April 12, 2023 at 6:22 pm
Rolling Fork? Rolling Stone? How abouta Rolling Joke? FJB
justin
April 14, 2023 at 8:57 am
joe Biden has wrecked my beautiful home has stated fighting with other country’s fly’s all over embarrassing the us more and more
Whit McCoskrie
April 18, 2023 at 9:58 am
Really, a senior defense and counterterrorism analyst finds a slip of the tongue by the President worth commenting on. “People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are unfit to minister in times of difficulty.” W Churchill Ever been to the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri? You might find something useful about moral and ethical leadership when constructively assessing the leadership of others. I will give you a tour.
Maurice V Major
April 23, 2023 at 11:32 am
You republicans are complaining about The President having mental difficulties, but we all should be thankful that you don’t have the job he has.Republicans are complaining, but with your mental prowess what are you doing?
Paul Hurd
April 24, 2023 at 5:19 am
If all Joe Biden did wrong was misname towns and cities, I wouldn’t care, but let’s be honest about this: Joe Biden is a first class idiot who has done more to harm this nation than the mistakes of all the previous presidents rolled into one. He has given BILLIONS of the U.S. taxpayers money to protect the Ukraine (a place that most of us couldn’t care less about), all the while leaving our southern border open to the most reprehensible pile of drug traffickers and human traffickers imaginable. This man needs to be brought up on charges of treason… for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. But no one in our worthless government has the guts to start the ball rolling.
Joseph Whitfield McCoskrie
April 26, 2023 at 7:18 pm
Come on John, Biden’s days are filled with numerous meetings and interaction with foreign counterparts and your message focuses only on slips of the tongue. Certainly your horizon of leadership assessment goes beyond that. Did you ever serve or take a leadership class?