Memory Expert on Biden, Trump, and the Stereotypes of Aging | Amanpour and Company

Joe keeps his relationships with people foremost in his mind. He knows people’s stories. It’s important. Trump is unable to foster relationships, and so doesn’t care about people. Only their regard for him is important to him. On the one hand we have a genuine caring nurturing leader, and on the other hand we have a malignancy of humanity.

I think folks forget, that when Biden hesitates, and may appear to be having a memory issues, that he is likely managing his stutter challenge. Huge respect to him for overcoming that challenge and choosing a career that requires him to make very public speeches on a regular basis.

In another clip today, I saw one of the swing state voters say: 'I'd rather have someone with 81 years behind them than someone with 91 counts" for president. I so agree!

NPR interviewed an AI expert Friday. She mentioned she had just been to the SOTU, saw Biden afterward for the first time after they had met ONCE quite some time ago, maybe a year ago. He greeted her by name without any prompting. And it's a Chinese name. Joe is fine.

At least Biden hasn't forgotten the Constitution and Ten Commandments.

I just turned 70 and can attest that with my wrinkles & white hair I am often discounted and can feel invisible. I have some of the "non-pathology" types of memory issues. (why did I come into the kitchen?, retrieval of a particular word in a moment). I experience ageism popping up more regularly. So I call BS when folks impose that on Biden simply because of his age.

Biden is an elder statesman. He’s been a senator, a Vice President for 8 years and a president. We badly need his experience, political connections, and expertise. He’s going to have some days when he’s a little slow but most days he’s doing great. We need him at this juncture in history!

As a CEO of large organization with all ages, I just want to alert, that age has no possession of cognition, every age shows poor recall, poor delivery, multitasking distraction, etc. It is an ageless issue.

Four more years! Four more years! I have confidence in a president who surrounds himself with a trusted cadre of competent and effective advisors and cabinet secretaries to help with the demanding job, but a narcissist who thinks 'only he alone can fix it', not so much. Does anyone still remember the chaos, churn, confusion and drama that characterized TFG administration?

Not a fan of Biden's but he did great last night. As a bonus, he didn't quote Hitler or lie about needing ID to buy bread unlike the Mango Mussolini 😂

Forget biden's age, everyone forgets these types of details occasionally.

President Biden has had a life long problem with stuttering. I am 74 years old and I pause over certain consonants and blends. There's not a thing wrong with my health or brain 😊

Joe was spitting fire that night 👏😎🇺🇸

I read a story by a California poet. He says, "My father can remember nothing . . .we will be driving down the street and he will point to a shopping center and say 'I can remember when there was nothing there.'"

I'm 85, had my last daughter at 72, serve as chairperson of a sports club, invited recently to be an advisor to a philanthropic organization, play golf and speak two languages. With all humility, my young friends come to me for advise and counsel.

As a 70 year old, people think I should be frail and dim witted. I myself thought so too. Then I realized that in different phases of our life we “perform” in different ways. Towards my retirement I realized that I am a different person at work than at home; not wanting to show the world my true self. Protection! After I retired and started not remembering as I used to. Then it hit me. I don’t need to remember all those tidbits of data. I was no longer was in performance mode and only needed to remember things that are important to me in my retirement role.

I’m far more concerned about devious narcissist in the Oval Office, as opposed to a capable, kind, professional politician.

As far as qualification testing goes I am WAY more interested in testing for truthfulness than cognition.

explain to me how Donald Trump can insult a judge and have death threats directed at a judge and the next week beg that same judge for leniency? all i can think is, he must have forgotten and expects the judge has forgotten also.

Younger people have the risk of not having enough experience. That is more important than memory