An irritable President Biden snapped at a reporter while meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House.

The uncomfortable moment drew thoughts of the effects of dementia when a journalist asked the 81-year-old president to respond to Vladimir Putin’s warning that Russia would be “at war” with the United States and its allies if they lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles.

Biden shot back, “I say you be quiet until I speak. Okay? That’s what I say. Good idea?”

The reporter pressed, stressing that Putin’s statement represents “a serious threat” of war, prompting Biden to angrily declare, “You’ve got to be quiet. I’m going to make a statement here, okay?”

In sharing the clip, the RNC ReSearch account on X said, “His cognitive decline (which Kamala covered up) has turned him even angrier.”

Crooked Joe Biden freaks out on a reporter for asking him a question.

His cognitive decline (which Kamala covered up) has turned him even angrier. pic.twitter.com/6fXMo9PPGZ

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 14, 2024

“See how uncomfortable everyone is at the table. You don’t talk to a dog the way Biden talks to people he thinks are beneath him,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine posted on X in response to the clip. “The meek and mild American reporters in this White House must have Stockholm Syndrome because the way this administration treats them would not be tolerated in any other Western nation.”

Social media users were in agreement, though many pointed out that Biden has always been a “mean nasty old coot.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

He seems to have moved into the ‘no impulse control’, angry phase of mental decline. Dangerous for

— Anne Stewart Helton (@HappyJesusNurse) September 15, 2024

It’s over for him so he can stop pretending and let the nasty, real Joe Biden loose and be himself. He’s got nothing to lose.

— Brian (@Rugbyfish33) September 15, 2024

He’s been a blowhard mean nasty old coot for decades. He just can’t hide it from the press regularly. “I don’t work for you!”

— Jules (@julievriahi) September 14, 2024

As*hole in Chief Joe Biden won’t answer a simple question. Thank God we won’t have to look at him for much longer.

— Catherine Evermore™ (@CatherineUSA1) September 14, 2024

He’s an angry dementia patient

— Nina. (@karma_collette) September 14, 2024

This is such a national embarassment!
Sad thing though, Kamala would not hesitate to make the same nasty statement to that reporter. “I’m speaking!”

— Red Dawn Warning (@RiverVic1974) September 14, 2024

A demented tyrant…unfit to run for office, yet in that office.

— Phoeli (@sunmynd) September 14, 2024

Some of his other gaffes have been funny but this is just scary. Biden and Kier Starmer making decisions which could result in WWIII, then you’ve got Trudeau spouting off his opinion from Canada. These three men, if you can even call them that, should not be in charge!

— Jennifer (@DudeAndBear) September 15, 2024

Quick! Somebody give Joe his MAGA hat, he’s always happy when he wears his MAGA hat pic.twitter.com/Ps79VIwppl

— Scott Lee (@OnClose) September 14, 2024

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