Comedian Bill Maher has commented on the growing criticism directed at President Joe Biden following his performance in a debate with former President Donald Trump. New York Post.
Maher has broken with mainstream Democrats on several fronts, including this week’s presidential debate, when he suggested Biden didn’t even attend one of his own, spurring calls that Democrats need to find another candidate to challenge Trump in the next presidential election.
“The president emerged Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant.”
“Trump told lie after lie, something that would never have been allowed to happen if Joe Biden was in office,” Maher said, joking. “Joe is famously fond of trains, but apparently not of ideas.”
“I don’t want to say he pooped in the bed, but his new Secret Service name is Amber Heard,” Maher said, appearing to refer to Johnny Depp’s claim in 2016 that his then-wife Heard had defecated in his bed during an argument.
The comedian has previously said Biden’s age is a key issue in the 2024 election, adding that the president’s policies on immigration could see Trump return to the White House this year.
After Thursday’s debate, Biden was met with calls from donors and critics to withdraw from the race and hand over the nomination to a more qualified candidate.
“The president emerged Thursday night as a shadow of the great public servant he was,” The New York Times said in an editorial. “As things stand, he is making a reckless gamble. There are more Democratic leaders who can offer a clear, compelling and energetic alternative to re-electing President Trump.”
The Blaze News previously reported that The New York Times editorial board said it still favors Biden over Trump, despite the president’s struggles onstage.
“If the race comes down to a choice between Trump and Biden, the incumbent president would be the committee’s clear choice. The risk Trump poses is that great. But that risk, the danger to the country, and Biden’s varying capabilities mean the United States needs a stronger challenge to the presumptive Republican nominee. Calling for a new Democratic candidate in the final days of the campaign is not a decision to be taken lightly, but it reflects the scale and seriousness of Trump’s challenge to our nation’s values and institutions, and Biden’s inadequacy to challenge him,” the article said.
“The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by lies is to be honest with the American people: accept that Biden cannot continue the campaign and create a process to select someone more qualified to replace him and defeat Trump in November,” the editorial board continued.
“This is Biden’s best chance to protect from Trump’s malicious distortion of the soul of the nation that inspired him to run for president in 2019. And it is the best service Biden can provide the country he has nobly served for so many years.”
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