This week’s White House Report Card isn’t good for President Joe Biden, back home in Delaware for another weekend out of the public eye.

There were positives. The economy continued to show signs of life. And a House GOP effort to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis failed.

But Congress also fell short of approving bipartisan border reform legislation. And Israel rejected the president’s call for a pause in its fight to eliminate Hamas.

Then there was special counsel Robert Hur’s final report on Biden’s mishandling of classified information when he was vice president and before. While it said the president “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,” it said there would be no prosecution.

That should have been great news, but it came with a bigger and more damaging reason why. Hur said that Biden’s mind is foggy, reinforcing the public’s view shown in polls that he no longer has the mental ability to be president. Biden tried to prove his mind was fine at an angry press conference hours after the Hur report dropped, but he made it worse by misspeaking twice and mumbling often.

Jed Babbin, our conservative grader, gave Biden an “F” for the week and suggested that it is time to consider invoking the 25th Amendment to sideline Biden due to his mental deficiencies.

Pollster John Zogby graded a “C-minus” and said despite days of ups and downs, it was a “hell” week for the president.

Jed Babbin

Grade: F

The case that President Biden is suffering mental deficiency or worse is no longer debatable. After a week of him demonstrating that almost daily — and a few other things his administration has done — it’s past time he was removed under the 25th Amendment.

Let’s start with his visions of dead statesmen. Last Sunday, at a Las Vegas fundraiser, Biden told the crowd that, soon after becoming president, he met French President Francois Mitterand and told him, “America is back.” The only problem is that Mitterand died in 1996. 

On Wednesday, Biden claimed to have talked with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot later that year. Kohl died in 2017.

And then came the report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents from his vice presidency, some of which were stored in his Wilmington, Del., garage. Special counsel Robert Hur detailed Biden’s memory lapses as follows:

— He couldn’t remember when his vice presidency began or ended.

— He couldn’t remember when his son, Beau, died.

— He couldn’t remember who his political allies were.

— His memory lapses go back at least to 2017 when he couldn’t remember things his ghostwriter asked of him.

Hur’s report concludes that Biden shouldn’t be charged under federal law because “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

What Hur meant is that Biden can’t be convicted because he can’t prove Biden can muster the mental power to form criminal intent. If a president can’t create a mental state of intent — good or bad — he cannot possibly be fit to serve as president. Hur said Biden is an elderly man with a poor memory. He’s too kind.

Biden later stated flatly that he’s the most qualified person in America to be president. At the same time, he said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is “the president of Mexico.”

QED. The only reason Biden won’t be removed under the 25th Amendment is that his vice president is a joke who wouldn’t be able to beat Trump in November.

There are other things I could mention this week, such as Biden blaming Trump for the border mess Biden created, White House Spokesman John Kirby apologizing for lying about warning the Iraqis of the Pentagon’s recent bombing targets, and the fact that Biden’s climate change tax credits will not cost the $240 billion he estimated. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated an additional $500 billion, bringing the total to nearly $700 billion. A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re into big money.

John Zogby

Grade: C-

There was more good economic news this week, as the trade deficit narrowed for the first time in four years.

But no one is talking about that. Instead, President Joe Biden was rocked by multiple whammies this week. First, his job approval is still stuck at 40% as voters still think that his indicted opponent — former President Donald Trump — would do a better job on every issue tested. Trump still leads in most polls.

And it is clear from this week’s hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court that a solid majority will strike a Colorado court decision to keep Trump’s name off the primary ballot. The reaction by conservatives on the court was predictable, but surprisingly critical liberals could have hung out a “Don’t Blame Me” sign.

The biggest pounding Biden took this week came from the special counsel Robert Hur, who simultaneously said he would not charge the president for knowingly and willfully hiding classified documents. The reason, he added in his report, was Biden’s age and cognitive skills. Biden responded strongly and treated the decision by Hur as bull.

Republicans, certain to keep Hur on their cocktail party list, now have potent evidence in the president’s age issue while long silent Democrats are starting to panic and buzz out loud. A week from hell.

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Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.

John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Their firm polls for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Follow Zogby on X @ZogbyStrategies.