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The main political event of this week in the United States was the first round of debates between the current President of the country Joe Biden and former head of state Donald Trump, who is seeking a return to the White House. Among other topics, candidates for the highest government office in America and sports were discussed — but only in a manner that infuriated many experts and spectators.
For 81-year-old Biden, who has recently repeatedly found himself in situations that testified to his inexorable decrepitude, it was a matter of honor to endure an hour and a half debate with an opponent who, although only three years younger, was much more energetic. To do this, the US President cleared his schedule as much as possible for more than a week and retired to his country residence at Camp David, where, together with numerous assistants, he studied the materiel and at the same time rested before the upcoming stress.
Nevertheless, the question of the ability of the far-from-young presidential candidates to cope with the work of the next four years certainly arose during the debates — about an hour and a quarter after the start of the debates. And responding to him, Trump said that he had successfully passed tests for cognitive abilities and physical readiness: “I showed a 100% result, we published it. I would like to see how my opponent would pass a similar test. At least one, the simplest one. Yes, he will not be able to get through the first five questions.» And he emphasized that these were full-fledged tournaments, not veteran ones. “To do this, you definitely need to be quite smart and be able to hit the ball a long distance,” Trump stated and added, nodding towards Biden. “And he won’t hit it even 50 yards.”
A little educational program. The concept of «handicap» in golf is a kind of rating: the smaller it is, the better. A maximum of 14 clubs are allowed to be carried in a golf bag, usually a player has exactly this number or close to it, which is why the whole set weighs about 15 kilograms. During the game, which lasts about four hours on a standard course, the bag is either attached to an electric cart or a manual mini-trolley, but at serious tournaments it is forbidden to use these devices: the clubs are carried around the course either by the athlete himself or his assistant (caddie).
Be that as it may, it is unlikely that a dispute over who plays better golf could answer the question of whether the contenders for the presidency of the United States are ready to bear their most important burden. Rather, what was important here were visual observations and the adequacy of everyone’s statements, and here, according to absolutely all experts, including representatives of the Democratic Party, which Biden represents, Trump won the debate by one wicket. He was clear in his formulations and adequate in his reactions, and although the current president did not try to sit on the missing chair, as during his visit to France to celebrate the day of the Allied landing in Normandy, and did not play “freeze”, as during the recent concert on the eve of Emancipation Day, but regularly closed his eyes, as if falling asleep, and got confused in his words.
The current and former American presidents spent several minutes arguing over the topic of golf, which caused an angry reaction from many experts and spectators.
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“There is a crisis in the country of the rising price of the food basket. There is a crisis in the country of illegal immigration. The country has a lot of questions about the very existence of democracy in the future. And at the same time, candidates during the debates start a skirmish about their success in golf. Is this normal?” «A pointless and insult-filled debate between the two oldest candidates ever to run for president degenerated into a spat over golf prowess,» a national television analyst asked rhetorically. stated a Fox TV journalist. Many comments on YouTube under videos with fragments of the debate between Biden and Trump are in a similar tone.
Well, the second round of debates between the candidates will not take place soon — only on September 10. There is time to prepare — both for the next discussion of the most important problems for the country, and for trash talk, and even a round of golf can be done. Unless his party decides to remove Biden from the race, of course. Conversations about this have already appeared after the disastrous performance of the current president.