menu_open Columnists
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Most Americans say Trump is unfit to lead. Miss 'Sleepy Joe' yet?

19 0
06.05.2026

Hey, do you all remember “Sleepy Joe” Biden, the president whose age and cognitive decline Donald Trump and his plague of MAGA lemmings routinely mocked?

Well, I have some news. In a living example of turnabout being fair play, 79-year-old President Trump himself is now viewed by a majority of Americans as being mentally and physically unfit to lead. 

A recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that nearly 60% of Americans believe Trump isn’t mentally sharp enough to be president, and 55% think his physical health makes him unfit to lead.

Americans think Trump is just as mentally unfit as Biden was

Just a few months before Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race over concerns about his age, an AP-NORC poll found 63% were not confident he had the mental capability to be president.

So that means Trump is right in Biden territory on the mental acuity front. Sleepy Joe, meet Babbling Don.

With soaring gas prices, rising food costs and inflation, and a wildly unpopular and wholly unnecessary war with Iran, Trump is making voters pine for Biden, the man Trump has called “the worst president in history.”

By Trump's own definition, he has become the worst president in........

© USA TODAY