As the old ditty has it, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.” It’s a lyric of universal mirth and appeal—except, so it seems, when it comes to Joe Biden, whose leisurely drop-in at a midtown Manhattan ice cream parlor Monday prompted gasps of puzzlement, disgust, and horror from pundits seeking any excuse to deem the president unworthy of his job.

Clay Travis, a right-wing radio host, found the outing “super weird,” asking his 1.1 million X followers, “Do you know grown men who go get ice cream by themselves? I don’t. It’s very strange.”

Fox’s Jeanine Pirro fumed, “As the world is burning, Joe Biden is licking his ice cream.” The same network’s Jesse Watters saw the incident as a sign of Biden’s “diminished faculties,” quoting the Alzheimer’s Association as hailing ice cream’s “power to immediately elicit soothing feelings” and “stimulate brain receptors.”

All of which makes me wonder: Have any of these people ever tasted ice cream? More to the point, have they ever tasted Van Leeuwen ice cream, which Biden was enjoying........

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