President Trump is taking the gloves off as the campaign season starts to turn nasty and he looks to lure Joe Biden out of his basement to fight like a man. 

In a return to a recurrent theme, Trump is hitting lunchbucket Joe where he is the most vulnerable and that is by drawing attention to the former vice president's deteriorating mental capabilities. 

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During a Fox News interview with the smarmy Chris Wallace, Trump questioned Biden's mental competence and mocked the Democrat whose handlers have used the COVID-19 panic as an excuse to keep him under wraps and out of situations where he could implode. 

According to the POTUS:

"I'd say he's not competent to be president. To be president, you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things. He doesn’t even come out of his basement."

And

"Biden can’t put two sentences together. They wheel him out. He goes up — he repeats — they ask him questions. He reads a teleprompter and then he goes back into his basement."

Trump declined to say that Biden was senile and will let voters be the judge.  

Via the partial transcript:

TRUMP:  Biden can’t put two sentences together. They wheel him out. He goes up — he repeats — they ask him questions. He reads a teleprompter and then he goes back into his basement. You tell me the American people want to have that in an age where we’re in trouble with other nations that are looking to do numbers on us.

WALLACE:  So let me ask you a direct question.

TRUMP:  No, no…

WALLACE:  No, I’m going to ask you a direct question about Joe Biden. Is Joe Biden senile?

TRUMP:  I don’t want to say that. I’d say he’s not competent to be president. To be president, you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things. He doesn’t even come out of his basement. They think, “Oh this is a great campaign.” So he goes in, I’ll then make a speech, it’ll be a great speech, and some young guy, starts writing, ‘Vice President Biden said this, this, this, this.’ He didn’t say it. Joe doesn’t know he’s alive, OK? He doesn’t know he’s alive.

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Trump also called for the 77-year-old Biden to take a cognitive test, a test that he said that he had aced but that Biden would have trouble with. 

Via Fox News:

President Trump took several shots at former Vice President Joe Biden’s mental state during his exclusive interview with “Fox News Sunday,” challenging Biden to take the same test he had to take, only for host Chris Wallace to claim that the test is not exactly difficult.

Trump took the test, known as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, in 2018 and his doctor said he “aced” it. At the time, a version of the exam circulated online.

“Let's take a test right now. Let's go down, Joe and I will take a test. Let him take the same test that I took.

Wallace said that after it was reported that Trump passed the test, he took it himself. Versions of it have circulated on the Internet after Trump passed it.

“It's not – well it's not the hardest test,” Wallace said. “They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant.”

“No, no, no,” Trump said, calling Wallace’s description “a misrepresentation.” Wallace said he was describing what he had seen online.

“It's all misrepresentation,” Trump reiterated. “Because, yes, the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions.” Trump said he answered all 35 questions correctly.

“Well, one of them was count back from 100 by seven,” Wallace said, then he began with, “Ninety-three.”

“You couldn't answer -- you couldn't answer many of the questions,” Trump told Wallace, prompting the host to ask what the difficult question was.

“I'll get you the test, I'd like to give it. I'll guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions,” Trump claimed.

Sooner or later, Biden's handlers are going to have to allow him to be seen by voters and it may not be pretty, especially if there are debates this fall because it's hard to see how Biden will be able to handle the pressure.

Recent polling has shown that an alarming number of likely voters believe that Biden is experiencing dementia and the longer that he can stay locked in the basement the longer that the scam that he is capable of the job will continue.