President Joe Biden stumbled through an incredibly emasculating week. For someone whose lifelong career in politics is soon nearing its end, it was also incredibly depressing to witness.
In his first cabinet meeting since Oct. 2, 2023, Biden took a back seat to his wife Jill. The First Lady sat at the head of the table, and according to the New York Post, “read from a binder about maternal health initiatives for four-and-a-half minutes after her husband spoke for just two minutes off the top of the meeting.”
Biden then, on Wednesday, appeared on “The View,” where the ABC hosts coddled him as if he were taking his first field trip outside the nursing home gates. The president also admitted he was in denial over the Democratic Party’s pressure campaign to oust him from the ballot in favor of his VP, Kamala Harris. (RELATED: Biden Tells ‘The View’ He’s Still In Complete Denial About Why He Was Pressured Off The Ticket)
“Our relationship is fine. Look — I never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance of my running again. I didn’t sense that. And although the polling — they said Biden’s polling was different — the fact of the matter is, my polling was about, always within range of beating this guy,” the president said.
He went on to say, without hesitation, “I was confident I would beat Trump.”
Once the most powerful man in the world, Biden was forced to sit off to the side at his own Cabinet Meeting, as others took control — a fitting metaphor for his entire presidency. Once a charismatic senator, a man at the center of the Washington, D.C., boy’s club, Biden was sandwiched between a gaggle of obnoxious media women who make millions being shallow.
There is such a lack of dignity to it, a lack of fanfare, of triumph, that, even if you despise him and everything he has stood four in the past four years — even in his entire political career — you can’t help but pity the man. Right before our eyes, Biden is sliding into the dustbin of history, without much to show for it, without his coveted FDR legacy.
It’s hard to hate on him this week, as we will all be Joe Biden one day. Old and feeble, wishing the world gave us more credit, even if we don’t really deserve it.
