Uncomfortable Reality: The Presidency is Also a Visual, Audio 'Performance'

Plus, 2) is prejudice present if you're successful and 3) why organizations need to, in great detail, publicly recognize individual and team achievements together

President Joe Biden

Ezra Klein of The New York Times presented an interesting argument four months ago about the presidency of the United States and Joe Biden’s decreasing cognitive capacity and public speaking.

The recent presidential campaign debate between Biden and his counterpart, former President Donald Trump, quickly brought back up the point that Klein made.

“Thursday night’s (debate) catastrophe was the culmination of an abysmal campaign to date by Biden,” writes John Mulholland at the Daily Beast.

“When Ezra Klein of The New York Times suggested, in February, that Biden should be replaced as the Democrats’ candidate he cited this as one key reason:

“The presidency is a performance,” Klein explained. “You are not just making decisions, you are also acting out the things people want to believe about their president — that the president is in command, strong, energetic, compassionate, thoughtful, that… the president has it all under control.”