Joe Biden’s fine, y’all. Totally with it. Not a puddle of mental goo at all.
Just don’t watch this clip from The View if you still want to hold on to that fantasy.
For those of you more interested in the truth, the former president on Thursday spent an agonizing minute trying to respond to claims that his faculties aren’t exactly as keen as they once were (okay - more like he’s about as sharp as a wet napkin). And it was about as coherent as you might expect:
Truly amazing stuff here: Joe Biden is asked about the books that have been written about his cognitive decline. He spends one minute struggling to answer the question while going on tangents about random things before handing it off to his wife who says he was perfectly fine lol pic.twitter.com/vUjG2dwe0X
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 8, 2025
After spending a minute incoherently rambling about random stuff that had absolutely nothing to do with the question he was asked before trailing off, Joe’s wife, Jill, jumped in to save her husband from the verbal hole he was digging, insisting that those who've written books on Biden’s cognitive decline following his one-term stint in the Oval Office “weren’t with us in the White House, and they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.”
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Jill, who is never far from her husband’s side these days as his designated handler, claimed that Biden would put “a full day and then, at night…he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff.”
Which most of us would call, you know, just...being president. But apparently, Biden deserves a gold star for doing the basics of his job, given that he probably couldn't pass the competency test for a Walmart greeter. So...you go, Joe!
Meanwhile, the former president had found someplace at the back of the studio to stare off into.