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President Joe Biden is concluding 2023 with a series of blunders and, regrettably, a multitude of missteps that have significantly impacted America’s state this year. From failed policies to unresolved crises and personal blunders, Biden now faces the looming possibility of indictment and potential retirement in the coming year.
Here are Biden’s Top Ten Blunders for 2023:
10. Biden’s approval rating goes nowhere but down
Biden’s approval rating has been a cause for alarm in the Democratic Party headquarters. Many Democrats are appealing to their leaders to retire the old man and place someone capable of leading the nation.
For months, polls have shown a downward trend for the 81-year-old president.
In a survey conducted by Monmouth University, at least 34 percent of respondents approved of Biden in the White House.
The majority also disagreed with Biden in terms of handling illegal migration and inflation.
The Wall Street Journal earlier published a 37 percent approval rating for Biden, the lowest since he entered office.
According to FiveThirtyEight’s catalog, Biden has the lowest approval rating since President Harry S. Truman.
To make things worse, many staunch supporters are withdrawing their support for Biden. Some even turned back on the Democrats and expressed solidarity with the former president, Donald Trump.
Cardi B slams NYC Democrats and Biden for his military aid to Ukraine while slashing America’s funds for education, libraries, and sanitation.
Comedian Bill Burr lambasted the Democrats’ strategy, which he said “will make Trump win in 2024.”
Charlamagne Tha God calls on Biden to give the ultimate Christmas gift to the Americans and “step aside.”
Another personality who backtracked from the elderly candidate was Michael Rappaport, who declared “I’ve had conversations with some of my – if it comes down to pig d— Donald Trump and Smokin’ Joe Biden, I’m sorry. I am sorry. Voting for Pig D— Donald Trump is on the table. I’m sorry!”
Even Rhode Island’s former Black Lives Matter Leader declares support for Trump.
Rappers Azealia Banks, Sexxy Red, Wake Flocka, and Lil Pump also backs the GOP leader.
Banks even exclaimed that “keeping Biden in office is elder abuse.”
9. Physical and mental health decline
In an Associated Press-NORC Survey released in August, a quarter of adults or 77 percent of adults in the US believe Biden is too old to be effective for another term. Ironically, 69 percent of the respondents were Democrats.
A study by the Wall Street Journal shows similar results, with only 36 percent of respondents believing that Biden is “mentally up for the job.”
Many democrats have observed a significant decline in Biden’s physical and mental capacity. A voter from Pennsylvania noted, “You can see, even from the beginning of his presidency until now, there’s definitely been some decline — and that’s worrisome.”
Biden has been in the news for his unhinged speeches and physical falls. He is the oldest U.S. president in American history. He was 78 at his 2021 inauguration.
A former White House physician Representative Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), also noted the deterioration of Biden’s physique and cognition.
Jackson said, “This man can’t do the job. He’s proven to us every single day that he can’t do the job, but this is going to get worse.”
Jackson served as a White House doctor under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations.
The former physician also demanded that Biden get a cognitive test before before 2024 elections.
8. Vacation-in-chief
In November, the Republican National Committee report revealed that Biden had 40 percent of his presidency on Break.
A much-updated report by the Dailymail, said that the POTUS has spent 360 days on vacation, a record which surpassed his predecessors.
To ring in their New Year, Biden and his family will stay in Two Palms Villa, a three-bedroom home, that has an infinity pool, private beach access, and an unobstructed view of Buck Island Reef National Monument.
All while the country faces the largest migrant surge in history, the persisting Israel-Hamas war, and Ukraine’s demand for additional funding against their conflict with Russia.
7. Crime surge all over America
According to FBI data in October, despite a drop of 1% from the previous year, the property crimes and vehicle thefts spiked.
In addition to this, many find the statistics questionable as the FBI crime report excludes the biggest US cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Based on a study of Council for Criminal Justice, domestic violence, and violent crimes remain elevated in 2023.
In a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports, about 48 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of crime. This is an increase with the polls taken last year.
Even members of Congress were not excluded from the crime as Rep. Mary Hay Scanlon (D-PA) experienced a car robbery in December 2021 and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) had his car hijacked at a gunpoint in Washington D.C. in October 2023.
With the surge of crime in their communities, many people opt to leave and avoid “dangerous cities.”
At least 63 percent told the NSA/Tipp Survey that they stopped visiting areas with high crime rates. Moreover, six in ten Americans are not satisfied with Biden’s crime control policies.
Inside cities like Washington D.C. also reported a spike in carjacking, holdups, and theft. Some attacks were even posted online.
Jim Skinner of Collin County, Texas said that they have forwarded recommendations to the Biden administration but they have not heard back.
6. Post-pandemic education crisis
In November, Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona committed an embarrassing blunder that involved misquoting President Ronald Reagan’s “most terrifying words” quote.
This reflected a bigger malady the Biden administration is facing in education.
According to Gallup’s Spring 2023 Survey, strategies for students to catch up are failing. The survey reported that one in five students has graded their school a D or F in mental health support.
Upon the opening of classes, Stanford University noted that K-12 students suffer chronic absenteeism. Following COVID-19 restrictions, at least 6.5 million students were chronically absent.
In a summary released by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), the group reported that math and reading scores for 4th and 8th grade dropped in 2022 based on the results published by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. There are 16 million students who were chronically absent from 2021 to 2022; this is twice as many as in previous years, according to Attendance Works.
5. Ukraine War
On December 13, Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with Congress to fund his war against Russia amid contentions of GOP officials to address border woes first before the approval of the Ukraine aid.
Biden’s liberal administration has splurged $113 billion in support of Ukraine’s war against Russia in February 2022. The current regime intends to spend another $61 billion through the end of next year.
Republican lawmakers slammed the continued funding and said that this would “force cuts to Social Security” and that it would “throw our grandparents into poverty.”
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that it would deliver $250 million worth of military aid to Ukraine, drawn from the existing budget for the country.
Additional funding from Congress is still on hold as Republican lawmakers remain firm on their demand for the Biden administration to address the internal conflict brought by his weak border policy and account for the previous billions released under the president’s name.
4. Israel-Gaza War
Republicans slammed Biden for his hypocrisy over the Israel and Hamas war. In an address to the nation on October 9, Biden was criticized when he forgot to mention Iran, a state sponsor of Hamas terrorists, during his speech.
The RNC said in their post on X, “Biden spoke for 10 minutes and 12 seconds, then turned his back and shuffled away.”
“He did not even mention Iran.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R) also criticized Biden for his lack of strategy to rescue hostages taken by the Hamas.
Despite Biden’s supposed support for Israel, his administration still fails to take steps to address the worsening anti-semitic attacks against Jews in the U.S.
The Anti-Defamation League exposed that the US had reached an all-time high record in the two months since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
The group recorded 2,031 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and Dec. 7, up from 465 incidents during the same period in 2022 — a 337% increase.
American Jews report 34 antisemitic incidents per day.
3. Corruption-riddled Biden clan
An investigative article by Judicial Watch unraveled key information on Biden’s foreign transactions, including their corruption involvement.
According to their probe, “the biggest paydays for James and Hunter Biden came from China—specifically from the energy conglomerate CEFC China. The total amount, flowing to Biden-connected entities, notes the Comer Committee, is “over $8 million.”
The House Oversight Committee has also identified over 20 shell companies and uncovered how the Bidens and their associates raked in over 24 million dollars between 2015 and 2019 by selling Joe Biden as “the brand.” Financial records obtained show Hunter Biden’s business account, Owasco PC, received payments from Chinese-state-linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies.
According to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee, Hunter Biden transferred $150,000 to his uncle’s company from a joint account with CEFC on August 14, 2017. About two weeks later, Sara withdrew $50,000 from that amount and deposited it into her and Jim Biden’s checking account. Subsequently, she wrote a $40,000 check to Joe Biden, ostensibly as a “loan repayment.” This sum constituted 10% of the $400,000 total, matching the arrangement mentioned in Hunter’s emails found on his abandoned laptop, referring to a “10 held by H for the big guy.
2. Border Crisis
A migrant caravan is bound to crash on the US border in the last week of December. The masses of migrants, who are from Honduras, Haiti, and Cuba, departed for the United States on Sunday.
There were about 8,000 individuals who joined the caravan and are expected to swell to 15,000 members as they reach the border.
The marchers held posters that read “Exodus from Poverty.”
This is the biggest migrant caravan to enter the US since June 2022.
Since October, US Customs and Border Patrol have reported that there have been over 730,000 encounters with these migrants.
CBP officials added that up to 10,000 migrants have been caught daily at the southwest border just this month.
The CBP had already halted railway operations and pulled out air marshals to control the influx of illegal migrants in the country.
In a 50-page document compiled by Republican lawmakers, federal records, reports, and public data expose that Biden’s administration has been spending $451 billion annually for migrant care and shelter.
“Every day, American taxpayers bear the costs of this escalating chaos,” said the Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green. The surge of migrants in various towns and major cities like New York caused a major impact on its residents as well as on government funding.
1. The Busting of Bidenomics
Bidenomics has been the president’s slogan in resolving economic woes by most middle to low-wage earners. However, four years into his presidency, his administration failed to resolve the problem of inflation and the rising cost of living.
In a poll conducted by a Democrat Stanley Greenberg, at least 64 percent of Americans worry about inflation and cost of living as their main problem.
Greenberg said, “The Biden presidency is defined by that inflation and the longer it extends the angry people get.”
The biggest problem is at the grocery store, many voters do not care about the graph or the percentage, they care that the prices of basic commodities are very much higher today.
A CNBC survey that covered more than 4,000 US adults said that “[shoppers] generally spent less on clothing, restaurants and bars, and entertatinment, outside of the house this year.” Respondents also said that groceries, vacations, and electronics also got significant cuts.
The US Labor Department said in November that “four out of the six major grocery store food group indexes increased over the month.”
Despite Biden’s claims that inflation is “slower”, core prices, such as food and energy, continue to surge.
