The Wit to Gall all the Right Enemies

President Biden had his annual medical last week. A few physical ailments aside — reflux, a stiff gait etc. — he passed with flying colours apparently. According to his White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, he didn’t need to take a cognitive test as part of his medical because he effectively passes one each day at work. Some commentators on Fox News have in the past queried Ms Jean-Pierre’s own cognitive ability. That’s unfair. You can’t spin, dissemble and lie with a straight face time after time, without respite, without having your wits about you. I mean you have to recall how you lied about something last time, and the time before, to do it again faultlessly. No mean feat.

Okay, Jean-Pierre is a young, black, Haitian-heritage lesbian which rather favours her in the DEI rankings. But just because a gal of the politically correct identity gets waved through to the top of the queue doesn’t mean she’s not the best candidate. It just means she doesn’t have to take a test, cognitive or otherwise.

I’m one to talk. I took the standard cognitive test a few years back. It’s the same one that Donald Trump took. Can’t remember why I took it, which is a worry. Keep this to yourselves, it’s hush-hush as it were. I wouldn’t want it to get about. But while Trump scored 25 out of 25, I scored just 23.

What tripped me up is when the doctor names five things, say, church, biscuit, train, rose and cow. You have to say them back immediately in order for one point but then after a few more puzzles and such, you’re asked again what they are. I could only remember four and also got the order wrong. Alas, two points lost. I think it was because I took my test late in the afternoon whereas Trump took his test in the morning when brains are smarter. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it, at least while I remember it.

Of course, Trump trumpeted his results. Let’s face it, fellow Trump fans, he’s a blowhard. Self-effacement is simply not in his kit bag. True, self-deprecation sometimes creeps into his speeches but only for effect. Prissy conservatives in politics and in the media don’t like this personality trait of Trump. They despise him for it. Call him insulting names; e.g., “despicable human being.” He’s simply not the right kind of chap. Incidentally, if you do ever get into an argumentative tussle with lefties don’t depend upon prissy conservatives to come to your aid. They’ll abscond or backstab you, before you can say Jack Robinson.

Now those on the left couldn’t give tinker’s cuss about insensitive or even foul language. It’s their lingua franca. They hate Trump because he is effective. He doesn’t just talk the talk. He walks the walk.

He seals up the southern border, he boldly deregulates, he makes America energy independent, he reduces black unemployment to its lowest-ever level, he gets NATO countries to increase their defence spending, he moves the US Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, he establishes the Abraham (peace) Accords in the Middle East, he appoints genuine judges rather than partisan hacks to the courts, and so on and so on. Achievement after achievement. All daggers in the heart of the Left. All pooh-poohed by the prissies because of Trump’s mean tweets.

Notice, too, that Trump gets under the skin of those of those on the left because he dismisses their destructive, delusional plans as infantile. “A high-school term paper which got a low mark” is the way he described AOC’s and the Dem’s Green New Deal. Have a look at this one-minute video clip and weep for what we’ve missed this last three years and a bit. To be regrettably sexist, it’s been like having divorced Greta Garbo for Phyllis Diller.

Most journalists are on the political left. They are either sinister, invested in the collapse of Western values, or they are useful idiots wedded to an ideology that has long since been taken over by Marxism, green zealotry and wokeism. Nothing can be expected from them. Those remaining journalists of the centre-right, an endangered species, need to start appreciating that we need Trump’s policies; that is, if we are to rescue fraying Western values. Best not to be too prissy about Trump’s personality. Just a thought.

Finally, 23 out of 25 might not have equalled Trump’s impeccable performance in the cognitive stakes but I’m fairly confident that it has the beating of the current president of the United States. How Ms Jean-Pierre would spin a score of 5 out of 25 I’m not sure, but I’m in no doubt that no-one could do it with a straighter face.