Utterly humiliated, Biden lectured us from the Oval Office about honesty - but the sick TRUTH is that he's lied to the world... and we all know who's really in charge now - MAUREEN CALLAHAN's damning verdict

For the umpteenth time, President Joe Biden has shown America that he's no longer fit to serve.

Not that you'd know it from the glowing coverage of his all-too-brief primetime address on Wednesday night, slurring and audibly gulping his way through the most consequential and historic speech of his political career.

'When you elected me… I promised to always level with you,' Biden said from the Oval Office. 'To tell you the truth.'

The truth?

This is a president who has spent the last four years lying about his physical health and cognitive fitness.

A president who terrified the world with his debate performance against former president Donald Trump in June.

A president who had to be pushed to stand down — and, when he finally did, released a typewritten letter with a digital signature. It didn't even have an official letterhead, or an accompanying photo or video.

But sure, let's have the sitting US president, a proven liar who had to be shoved out the door by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, lecture us on honesty, democracy, and the indispensable need for integrity.

A president who, as the Mail exclusively reported Wednesday, had to be rushed back on a supersonic Air Force One flight to Delaware last week because he was so sick.

A president whose press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted, on Wednesday, that Biden's decision to withdraw 'had nothing to do with his health' and that he 'didn't step down from campaigning or running because he didn't believe he can serve in a second term.'

Actually, that last part could technically be true. It's everyone else who doesn't believe he can do it.

Joe Biden, through his own stubbornness, got knifed in the back last week. The wound is still raw, the stitches fresh, and the American electorate isn't buying this cowboy-at-sunset act.

'Does character in public life still matter?' he asked.

I don't know, Joe — you tell us.

Please, reprimand America about 'character' while the shameless Dr. Jill and Hunter sit off-screen in the Oval during this speech, surely mourning their fates as dissolute Delawareans with bleak futures indeed.

Dr. Jill, who told Vogue post-debate for a cover interview that you'd 'continue to fight'! Hunter, convicted in one criminal case and facing another, injecting himself into his father's high-level White House meetings!

And where was Kamala, Joe's 'incredible partner'?

Not at the White House.

Nope, Kamala is out on the campaign trail already, vibrating with glee at her incredible luck, smiling ear-to-ear while her clearly declining president suffers this brutal humiliation.

She can't even feign solemnity. She's incapable of comporting herself with an iota of decorum, of saying that while of course she dreamt of running, she never wanted to get the nomination like this.

No: Kamala is high on her own supply and running the show. 

Meanwhile, Dr. Jill is jetting off to the Paris Olympics on Thursday, sucking the last bit of glamour from the presidential teat while leaving her ailing and heartbroken husband to grieve this loss without her.

Priorities!

Biden, 81, spoke of finally passing the torch — albeit a torch that had to be pried from his and Jill's lizardly, vise-like grips.

He spoke, pedantically, of the need for 'new voices, fresher voices, younger voices'.

Cackling voices, if you will.

Hey — it's better than slurring voices that degrade into whispers and fall apart, as Biden's has during this long goodbye.

If he really believed in honesty, integrity, and character in presidential politics, he would have done the only decent thing: resign from office.

'Nothing,' he said, 'nothing, can come in the way of saving our democracy.'

That includes you, Joe.