A Tale Of Two Brains: HIGHLY REASSURING (And Not) March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 The President’s age — the good news, explained by a geriatrician. (A quick read.) His challenger’s age — Dr. John Gartner on “Trump’s accelerating dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing. Note, also, that if he had only normal health care available and did not exercise regularly, actuaries would expect Joe to live well past the end of his second term. But because he has great care and does exercise, he could well live to attend not just his successor’s Inauguration, but the two or three — or even four — after those. That said (just so you know), the Vice President is under-rated. She is smart, sensible, moderate, and — should it come to this, which it almost surely would not — she would have Joe’s 4,000 appointees not skipping a step as she served out the remainder of his term.