Given the increasingly evident decline of President Joe Biden's cognitive capabilities, there has been mounting speculation that first lady Jill Biden is the person who is actually running the show at the White House.

Those rumors were bolstered on Friday when the first lady sat in on and seemingly led a Cabinet meeting, the first such gathering of senior administration leaders in nearly a year, more so than the president, according to the New York Post.

Setting aside the scandalous fact that this is the first time Biden has gathered his Cabinet together since October last year, despite everything going on domestically and around the world, the arrangement of the first lady presiding prompted the Post to rhetorically ponder, "Who’s in charge here, again?"

Joe hands over Cabinet meeting to Jill

The Cabinet meeting kicked off late Friday morning with President Biden first urging Congress to quickly pass a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown before dubiously claiming that he and his administration were "going to keep running through the tape" over his final four months in office.

That claim of "running through the tape" until the end is questionable, per the Post, because the "lame-duck president" Biden has been on vacation more often than not since he was forced by his fellow Democrats to end his re-election bid in July, at which point Vice President Kamala Harris assumed the role of the incumbent Democratic nominee for November's election.

Seemingly signifying his reduced control over his own administration, the president soon turned things over to the first lady and said of the meeting, "It’s all yours, kid."

Jill Biden then proceeded to speak at length about various White House initiatives and other federal efforts to boost funding for research and innovations on women's health issues and even seemed to urge the executive branch agency heads to do more in their respective departments to support those initiatives.

Is Jill Biden the acting president?

Lending to the appearance that the first lady, more so than the president, is actually running things at the White House, per the Post's report, is that her signature was emblazoned underneath the president's and the presidential seal on special notebooks handed out to all who were in attendance at the Cabinet meeting.

She also spoke more than twice as long as her husband and exuded an air of confident command while the actual elected president seemed tired and unfocused on what was going on.

After the meeting concluded, President Biden jetted off to Delaware for the weekend, ostensibly to meet privately with several key allied leaders, while Jill stayed behind and continued to play acting president as she hosted a White House tour and Rose Garden celebration, during which she spoke from behind the presidential podium, for the cast and creator of the once-popular "The West Wing" TV series that first aired 25 years ago.

Noticeably absent from the earlier Cabinet meeting was the woman who seeks to formally lead the administration for the next four years, Vice President Harris, who was instead holding a pro-abortion campaign rally in Georgia in which she repeatedly and routinely lied and misled her crowd of supporters about the purported stance of her political opponent, former President Donald Trump, on the abortion issue.

What is Biden talking about?

Fox News reported that when the initial media-inclusive portion of the Cabinet meeting ended, President Biden took a couple of questions from reporters about the worsening tensions and open conflicts in the Middle East but delivered responses that were more confusing than enlightening.

He was asked if it was "realistic to get a ceasefire" to end the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas but instead spoke about a "peace process" amid the recent growing fight between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Pressed again in a follow-up about how "realistic" a ceasefire deal might still be, Biden replied, "If I ever said it’s not realistic, we might as well leave. A lot of things don’t look realistic until we get them done. We have to keep at it."