There’s little wonder why Joe Biden has held fewer press conferences or formal unscripted interviews than any other modern president, or why his reelection campaign team schedules exclusively for small events with efforts to screen for friendly audiences.

In short, it’s to shield the leader of the free world from tough questions, brain fog and policy gaffes that might ignite a full-blown world war, or worse, cause him to lose his 2024 bid along with jobs of many heavy lifters who hoisted him out of the basement of his 2020 campaign into the Oval Office.

They have good reasons for such precautions.

Like for example, in January 2022, when speaking at his second presser, Biden suggested a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine would prompt a minimal U.S. response, leaving officials in Kyiv aghast and suggesting the president had given Vladimir Putin a “green light” to invade — which he did weeks later.

As reported in the New York Post quoting New York Times correspondent Katie Rogers, first lady Jill Biden fumed at aides demanding why no one prevented him from speaking off script to make that remark, stating: “Why didn’t anyone stop that?”

Then there’s that April 2022 White House Easter Egg Roll event where then-director of messaging planning Meghan Hays, dressed in a bunny costume, intervened to block Joe from answering an Afghan journalist’s question by guiding him away from the rope line.

Or some will recall the November 2022 White House press conference when he said Russian troops were preparing to pull out of the Iraqi city of Fallujah … when he meant to say the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

In February of this year, Biden told a Las Vegas audience that he had recently spoken with the late French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, then recalled at a Manhattan donor event having discussed the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who last held office in 1998 and died in 2017.

Last month’s release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 388-page investigation report explaining why Joe Biden’s willful illegal possession of four decades of highly classified documents hasn’t produced criminal charges officially confirmed Joe’s transparent senility as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

According to Hur’s report, while as a private citizen following his vice presidency, Biden had also willfully disclosed sharing classified information, including U.S. foreign military policies, with his ghostwriter on an $8 million book deal to burnish his achievements for the upcoming election.

Hur’s document stated the obvious: “Mr. Biden’s lapses in attention and vigilance demonstrate why former officials should not keep classified information unsecured at home and read them aloud to others.”

Nevertheless, despite undisputed evidence of criminality, the investigation concluded that the president is too feeble-minded to be held accountable by a sympathetic jury.

Presumably suspecting that lots of voters are likely to question how someone too forgetful to stand trial can be trusted to lead our nation and its military, Biden quickly held a press conference, angrily declaring “I know what the hell I’m doing!”

Moments later, he misidentified Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”

Following San Francisco APEC meetings in November last year where Biden appeared confused standing side-by-side with other world leaders, his re-election campaign reportedly launched operation “Bubble Wrap” aimed at isolating him in a bubble from unflattering trips and stumbles — gaffes and pratfalls — whether on stage or while boarding Air Force One.

A central strategy is to schedule limited and small public appearances with vetted cherry-picked attendees and avoiding unfriendly venues such as college campuses while withholding precise locations from the media until he arrives to avoid unpleasant disturbances such as being drowned out by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

The Boston Herald attributes this reasoning behind Biden’s announcement of his $1.2 billion college loan forgiveness program in front of a tiny crowd at a small Los Angeles library rather than a college campus where it would make more sense.

Quoting the New York Post, the presence of wife Jill holding his hand while crossing the White House lawn to the helicopter pad on trips “is a dead giveaway that he will take no questions.”

As reported by NBC News.com, the protective precautions have proved successful, “[having] resulted in zero disruptions at events the White House or the campaign have organized for Biden in the five weeks since he was interrupted a dozen times during an abortion rights speech in Virginia.”

NBC News notes that many of the president’s recent public appearances are dubbed by the White House as as off-the-record “OTR stops” involving visits to businesses or residences not announced beforehand.

Joe’s handlers have also reportedly “managed to minimize protests at his White House and campaign events, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have in recent weeks disrupted events he attended that were organized by other groups, including the United Auto Workers union and the South Carolina Democratic Party.”

Which now begs the biggest question of all: Will resumption of that basement bunker strategy that won him the 2020 election as a well-meaning elderly man with poor memory be successful again in the ultimate court of public opinion?

Therefore, will his handlers risk allowing him to engage in real-time unscripted debate with Donald Trump?

We can only wish.

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