Joe Biden wears sneakers now. Should we care?

On age (again).

(President Joe Biden)

On Tuesday morning, Axios reported this:

As voters express deep concerns about the 80-year-old president's age and fitness for office, Biden's team is taking extra steps to prevent him from stumbling in public — as he did in June, when he tripped over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy.

With a physical therapist, Biden has been doing exercises to improve his balance as far back as November 2021.

Since his stumble in June, he has been wearing tennis shoes more often to avoid slipping — and using the short stairs on Air Force One, entering the plane on a lower deck than before.

The reaction from the White House — and its allies — was swift.

Wrote deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates on Twitter X: “Move over, tan suit! Can confirm: @POTUS is one of the millions of Americans with sneakers.”

(The tan suit reference harkens back to a time when Barack Obama wore a tan suit — and the media went bonkers.)

And then there was this from Patrick Dillon, a longtime Democratic operative: “Quite literally a ‘FLASH: President wears sneakers….and <several paragraphs down> also the other guy calls for political executions’ piece.”