I rarely feel pity for members of the Biden Administration.

But Joe Biden’s communications team? Whatever he pays these poor souls, it isn’t enough.

Imagine being forced to run behind the leader of the Free World, cleaning up his messes, like those guys at the circus who follow the elephants with giant shovels. 

Press Secretary Jen Psaki is probably grateful for a second bout of Covid that kept her home and left the underlings to try to make it look like the president wasn’t actively trying to start World War III during his trip to Eastern Europe this weekend.

Biden pinballs from gaffe to gaffe.

The president’s first was his prediction that food shortages in the U.S. are “gonna be real.”

Have the Russians killed all of our chickens and cattle, Joe? Burned our cornfields? Stolen our canned goods? I think we’re going to be OK. Food will be a lot more expensive, of course, thanks to the president’s runaway inflation. But we won’t starve. We’re too fat anyway.

The fact that supermarket shelves weren’t bare as a result of panic buying the day after his fear-mongering is a sign that almost no one takes Grandpa seriously anymore.

Next , while telling American troops in Poland that the Ukrainian people were brave fighters he told them they’d be in Ukraine soon.

“You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground,’”

The comms team was left to frantically backtrack and assure the media that U.S. troops were not on their way to Ukraine.

No sooner was that fire extinguished than the president declared that if the Russians used chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine the U.S. would respond “in kind.”

According to U.S. News and World Report:

President Joe Biden offered the first indication of how the U.S. might enter the war in Ukraine militarily when asked Thursday about mounting Western concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin may employ chemical weapons.

“It would trigger a response in-kind,” Biden told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels shortly after meeting with other heads of state gathering there for an emergency session to discuss the month-old conflict.”

I didn’t realize that American presidents talked publicly about committing war crimes. Good to know.

But the coup de grace of Biden’s failed trip to Eastern Europe was when he ended his Saturday speech saying this about Vladimir Putin:

“For God’s sake this man cannot remain in power.”

In other words, regime change is on the menu. Just what paranoid Putin fears most: that America doesn’t want him contained, but deposed.

The clean-up team grabbed their shovels and sprang into action. But it was too late. The world took notice.

From NPR:

“As Biden’s words rocketed around the world, the White House attempted to clarify soon after Biden finished speaking in Poland that he was not calling for a new government in Russia.

A White House official asserted that Biden was “not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change.” The official, who was not authorized to comment by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Biden’s point was that “Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.”

Nice try. But Biden’s statement was a rare moment of clarity by the sputtering old man. No amount of spinning could fix it.

If Biden traveled to Europe with the goal of trying to trigger WWIII, mission accomplished.

Oh, he also angrily snapped at a member of the press who asked him about sanctions. Biden falsely claimed that sanctions on Russia “were never” intended to deter Putin, despite multiple statements to the contrary by the vice president and others in his administration when sanctions were imposed.

Look, the president is a dangerous, unpredictable, walking word salad. The best thing that can happen is for him to stay home and away from microphones.

And he needs to give combat pay to his frazzled communications staff.

They have the hardest job in America.