FROM OUR WASHINGTON EDITOR EMERITUS SANS FEELAN

US PRESIDENT JOE Biden’s continuing failure to properly name people he is referring to in speeches is part of a concerted plan to utterly confuse America’s enemies, say close aides.

“Calling Vice President Harris “Vice Preside Trump” and President Zelensky President Putin may seem at first to be a problem with memory, but it is nothing of the sort,” explained an assistant to the American leader. “We have research suggesting that if you continually misname people it eventually gets to those around you and they begin to believe that the false names are the real names and the real names are false. The CIA has assured us that if President Biden keeps this up, he will have President Putin of Russia so confused that he will eventually launch an attack on China and Donald Trump supporters actually cheering Kamala Harris when she gives a speech. The principle is something like confirmation bias. It is important that no one around the President publicly contradicts him, to maintain the illusion among our foes. By the time Joe is finished with them they won’t believe their own names and will be doubting everything about themselves. Game on.”