Of course Donald Trump wants fireworks over Mount Rushmore - CNN

And it will take more than the worst pandemic in a century to get in his way.

'I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive ability to the cognitive ability of the man I'm running against'

Now both of the men running for the office of US President are questioning the other's wits.

After months of Trump's campaign describing former Vice President Joe Biden as "sleepy" and incoherent, a Fox News reporter this week asked Biden whether he had been tested for cognitive decline.

"All you've got to do is watch me," Biden responded, "And I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive ability to the cognitive ability of the man I'm running against."

BoJo and FDR

Trump is not the only world leader basking in reflected presidential greatness.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who emulated his hero Winston Churchill by reaching 10 Downing Street, is now invoking the other half of World War II's dynamic democratic duo -- US President Franklin Roosevelt.

With Britain in danger of posting its worst-ever unemployment figures, Johnson is promising a huge government investment program modeled on FDR's New Deal, which put America back to work in the 1930s and nurtured the welfare state.