The confused man in the White House is a profound and existential danger to the West, says Mark Dolan

Unfortunately, as the world descends into crisis with the powder keg of the Middle East erupting, who do we have in post as the leader of the free world?

The commander in chief of the biggest military on the planet.

Confused Joe Biden, a man so decrepit he made the heroic D-Day veterans this week look like sprightly teenagers.

Yes, it was embarrassing that our own prime minister made such a swift exit from the 80 year anniversary this week, but most Americans will be regretting that their president stayed for so long, especially after his embarrassing display.

Now, I'm sure he's a nice man and I wish him well in retirement. This is not ageism.

Winston Churchill was still an intellectual giant at 81. Rupert Murdoch, my old boss, still going strong and just remarried at 93.

For Joe Biden, this is cognitive decline. And it strikes me as cruel and unfair on him that we continue with this charade and shame on the Democratic Party in America for providing him as a candidate in 2020, when even then he was clearly unfit for the job and for gaslighting the public now by pretending that everything's fine, Nothing to see here, perpetuating the risible idea that somehow he calls the shots and makes the decisions.

It’s worrying to say the least.

Let's have a look at the president's in-tray at home. Crumbling cities, lawlessness, a public health crisis caused by obesity, epidemic levels of drug use, a government so mired in debt it makes Bernard Madoff look positively prudent and insane, woke suffused into the country's once great public institutions.

And what about Biden's challenges abroad?

Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine, the hot mess that is Afghanistan from which Biden pulled America out so embarrassingly, gifting murderers, Taliban thugs, billions of dollars worth of weapons and a mineral rich country.

There is the growth of China, who looks set to overtake America militarily and economically. In the years to come.

Joe Biden has to work out what to do as an increasingly belligerent Beijing casts its avaricious eye over Taiwan.

And then there is the Middle East, with the worst terror attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, October the 7th, and a death cult in the form of Hamas, whose supporters pervade the region with the dangerous Iranian regime among their biggest cheerleaders.

Perhaps, therefore, it wasn't such a great idea for Joe Biden to send all of those billions of dollars to Iran after all.

In what is a dark time for America and the world. We need great leadership in the White House.

Instead, we've got a guy that gets lost on his way into that famous building.

Would Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have happened under stronger leadership in Washington?

Let’s be honest, Putin is hardly afraid of Biden, is he?

In my view, having this frankly unwell man in charge is an open door to all tyrants to have a go and try their luck.

Biden's supporters say that he's got good people around him.

Well, is that how democracy works? Did the American people vote for a bunch of interns, backroom boys and policy wonks to actually run the country?

Joe Biden must be impeached or removed from office on the grounds of ill health. Joe Biden shouldn't be sat in the Oval Office. He should be sat in a care home, nursing a lukewarm cup of tea, eating soft biscuits and watching endless reruns of The Golden Girls who look like they are in their first flush of youth compared to this mumbling, incoherent bag of bones that is the president.

I'm not sure that Biden could control his bladder, let alone the country.

This confused man in the White House is a profound and existential danger to the West.

Our enemies are laughing and plotting.

Joe Biden is an accident waiting to happen. And I don't just mean in his trousers.