President Joe Biden, who voted to invade Iraq, co-managed eight years of the war on terror as vice president, and concluded the United States’s 20-year occupation of Afghanistan by forcing a fatal and chaotic retreat, declined to deliver a live address this week commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

It’s probably best for everyone that he didn’t, considering his behavior this weekend in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It’s probably safe to assume a live address would’ve gone just as poorly as this visit.