Michael Douglas Thinks Biden’s ‘Sharp As A Tack’

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Actor Michael Douglas defended President Joe Biden’s age and mental acuity ahead of what he believes is the most crucial election in his “lifetime.”

The 79-year-old actor Academy Award winner was quick to defend Biden, 81, against critics who question his cognitive abilities during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

“Well I think that I walk a little similar to him, and the people that I’ve talked to say he is as sharp as a tack… he’s fine,” he remarked when asked if Biden should be running for a second term.

“We all have an issue with memories as we get older, we forget names,” Douglas noted.

Biden’s gaffes have been stacking at a considerable rate lately; last week he claimed that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan, an American WWII pilot, had been eaten by “cannibals” when he crashed in Papua New Guinea.

“And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,” he insisted while campaigning at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape snapped back in a statement on Monday that Biden’s remarks “may have been a slip of the tongue,” but his “country does not deserve to be labeled as such.”

At a Tuesday campaign stop in Florida, Biden repeated that he used to drive a heavy duty tractor-trailer, which was already debunked in 2021 when he first  made the claim.

When a member of the crowd noted that Teamsters were “in the house,” and credited the president with securing their pensions, Bide replied, “We did get that done. Anyways. Besides, I used to drive an 18-wheeler.”

The same day, he appeared at a community college in Tampa and made another stunning blunder while trying to call out former President Donald Trump for being untrustworthy.

Biden claimed the 45th President was the only person responsible for the “cruelty and chaos” that has happened since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

“How many times does he have to prove we can’t be trusted?” the president flubbed.

A February poll found that 86% of American voters surveyed think Biden is too old to be the president, but Douglas, who plays Benjamin Franklin on Apple TV’s upcoming eponymous show, isn’t one of them.

“He’s overcome a stutter in his life and sometimes he might [stutter],” Douglas defended.

“But let’s just say his entire cabinet including his vice-president would be more than happy to work with him again in the next term.”

“I cannot say that about the other candidate running because nobody in his in his cabinet for 2016 wants to be involved with him,” the “Basic Instinct” star commented about Trump.

Zakaria questioned if Biden would be able to run the country in four years when he’s 85, but Douglas’ opinion did not change.

“I think he’ll be fine, thank you very much,” he shot back.

The “Fatal Attraction” lead believes that the current presidential race is “probably the most important election of my lifetime.”

“We need somebody in control, in power, who has some experience and knows how to work on a global situation,” he stated.

“You can’t ask for one side for us to be active globally, but then internally say we’re just gonna isolate,” Douglas continued. “It doesn’t work that way anymore.”

He did note that casting a ballot for the next commander-in-chief isn’t the only important political contest.

“I think this is a year also for us to really remind ourselves about local elections,” he added.

Douglas thinks that if the country is “going to kind of adjust,” the change needs to “start from the bottom up, not the top down.”

“And so I think all of us who vote for presidency should be actively involved in our local elections, too,” he concluded.

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