Guest wrote:Have to say though I'm not surprised they both make gaffes, they have a lot to remember and it gets harder with age, I think even forty or fifty year olds on here would drop a few clangers if they had to do it.
What is important is to compare with the baseline for each as individuals
Joe Biden has a stammer. It's something he has mastered but for a person with a stammer to mask it takes a great deal of concentration, which can lead to other mistakes. Joe Biden thiry years ago was very little different to Joe Biden now in terms of fluency, range of vocabulary and cohesive grammatical structure.
Donald Trump was a very good talker in the 1990s. The decline between 1990s Trump and this year's model is plain to see.