Despite his history of making bizarre and nonsensical comments, Democrats spent years denying that President Joe Biden suffers from cognitive decline.

Yet recent remarks from both Republican opponents and the president's own staff suggest Biden is near the point of breaking down. 

Biden didn't remember blocking natural gas sales

According to the Daily Mail, an example of that came last week when House Speaker Mike Johnson sat down for an interview with The Free Press.

Johnson at one point recalled confronting the president over his decision to limit the overseas export of liquefied natural gas.

EXCLUSIVE: @SpeakerJohnson tells @BariWeiss that President Biden hasn’t been in charge for a while.

In January 2024, when Johnson and Biden were alone in the Oval Office, the president couldn’t recall an important executive order he had signed just three weeks earlier.

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— The Free Press (@TheFP) January 18, 2025

"Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. Why would you do that?" Johnson recalled asking.

Staff members say they had to "manage" Biden's decline

"He genuinely didn’t know what he had signed and I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, 'We are in serious trouble - who is running the country?'" Johnson stated.

"Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know," the Republican House speaker went on to state.

The Daily Mail noted how Johnson's comments came just days after The New York Times published an article which cited sources who said staff members had to "manage" Biden's condition.

This included providing the president with a teleprompter when he appeared at small fundraisers in private homes and forcing donors to submit questions in writing.

Biden believes that he "would have beaten Trump"

"At times, they delayed sharing information with him, including negative polling data, as they debated the best way to frame it," the article explained.

"They surrounded him with aides when he walked from the White House to the waiting presidential helicopter on the South Lawn so that news cameras could not capture his awkward bearing," it added.

Interestingly, Biden still believes that he could have defeated President-elect Donald Trump had he not ended his campaign in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.

"I think I would have beaten Trump – could have beaten Trump," the president told USA Today in an interview earlier this month.