Joe Biden's WH staff 'scared sh**less' of him and working in perpetual dread of displeasing the President

WASHINGTON, DC: A group of White House staffers have been forced to tiptoe around incumbent Joe Biden while briefing him on certain topics, reported the New York Post.

While the rhetoric has been rejected outright by the White House, a senior administrative official has anonymously spoken out about presidential aides being "scared s**tless" of Biden, according to Politico.

Biden aides navigating a minefield

The official opened up about Biden aides trying not to make the President angry before briefings by constantly watching their step, "It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that.'"

“It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared s**tless of him," shared the source, adding that the President “doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.”

Allegations of Biden's temper flare with his aides have emerged in the past, and some have reportedly sought to bring a colleague with them to meetings for moral support. Biden's closest circle of aides includes senior adviser Anita Dunn, former chief of staff Ron Klain, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed. His son Hunter Biden has also started visiting West Wind meetings, after the President's abysmal performance in the debate against Donald Trump on June 27.

The team is described as "pretty insular" and one that “doesn’t really care what anybody says," by a senior House Democrat.

WH staffers dispute claims about Biden 

Some current and former officials have publicly disputed the rhetoric about Biden's behavior during the briefings.

Taking to the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Bharat Ramamurti, former deputy director of the National Economic Council, wrote, "I personally helped brief President Biden many times and this was not my experience. In fact, it was the opposite — we were overinclusive about flagging downsides of any recommended course of action so he could fully evaluate costs and benefits."

"Does he ask hard questions to make sure ideas hold up? Sure. If that makes you uncomfortable you shouldn’t be briefing the President of the United States,” he added in a follow-up post.

Another unnamed White House official shared that “the president actively seeks input from a wide range of staff who have had different experiences."

Internet slams Joe Biden over his mental acuity

Reacting to the news over Facebook, a user wrote, "Sounds like he's in the anger stages of his mental issues."

"When some get old and lose their mind they get angry and mean. Problem is he has the nuke football," stated another.

"Dude yells at clouds and shakes hands with ghosts," mocked a third.

"Like a child. Just give him an ice cream cone and he’ll be good," quipped a fourth user.

"He is no longer mentally fit for the position. The fact he won't do the right thing and step aside for the good of the country shows you who he really is," noted a fifth.

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