Biden will be scrutinized as much as he will be listened to during his State of the Union speech this Thursday. The American president spent last weekend at the Camp David residence, in Maryland, preparing with his advisers the traditional speech that he must deliver to the two houses of Congress.
At 81 years old, Biden raises questions about his ability to hold presidential office for four more years. Republicans have long presented him as a senile old man. Social media is flooded with video montages where he barely seems to articulate a sentence.