Joe Biden is losing the 2024 race quick. And nothing seems to better his chances.
Now Biden lost his mind in a fiery interview that left Democrats panicking.
President Biden faced intense scrutiny Monday after repeatedly scolding NBC anchor Lester Holt during an interview. At one point, he exclaimed, “What’s with you guys? Come on, man!” while defending his criticism of Donald Trump, despite his recent call for Americans to “lower the temperature” following the assassination attempt on Trump.
The 81-year-old president became visibly agitated when Holt questioned his poor performance in the June 27 debate and grew defensive when asked about Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance.
“Are you seeing what [viewers] saw, which was moments of, frankly, confusion?” Holt asked.
“Lester, look, why don’t you guys ever talk about the 18, the 28 lies [Trump] told? Where are you on this? Why didn’t the press ever talk about that? Twenty-eight times it’s confirmed he lied in that debate,” Biden shot back.
“Seriously, you won’t answer the question, but why didn’t the press talk about all the lies he told? I haven’t heard anything about that.”
When Holt protested, “We have reported many of the issues,” Biden retorted angrily.
“No you haven’t! No you haven’t! God love you,” fumed Biden — who falsely claimed during the debate that no troops died on his watch and confusedly said he “finally beat Medicare.”
Biden later brought up J.D. Vance, noting that the Ohio Republican senator had criticized Trump in 2016.
“Well, he said something about you,” Holt replied.
“He said some things about me, but see what he said about Trump. What’s up with you guys? Come on, man,” Biden chided.
Holt then challenged Biden when he launched into another attack on Trump, despite calling for calm in a rare Oval Office address following the assassination attempt on Trump.
“This doesn’t sound like you’re turning down the heat, though,” Holt said.
“Well, no, no, no, no,” the president replied, before launching into yet another diatribe against the Republican presidential nominee.
“Look, what I’m turning down — we have to stop the whole notion that there are certain things that are contrary to our democracy that we’re for. The idea of saying that you, that I didn’t win the election when every court in the land … including the conservative Supreme Court said we won, the idea of having a loyalty pledge from all of the folks,” he said, before trailing off.
Biden grew flustered again when Holt asked if he would agree to an additional debate against Trump to prove his mental acuity, beyond the second and final scheduled debate on Sept. 10.
“Is there a sense of wanting to get back on the horse?” Holt asked.
“I’m on the horse, where have you been?” Biden snapped.
“I’ve done 22 major events … I’m on the horse, what I’m doing is going out and demonstrating to the American people that I’m in command of all my faculties.”
When asked if he had discussed his political future with former President Barack Obama, Biden evaded the question, saying, “I may have, I don’t think so.”
“The idea that I’m the old guy? I am. I’m old. But I’m only three years older than Trump, number one. And number two, my mental acuity has been pretty d*mn good,” he said.
“Sometime come and talk to me about what we should be talking about. Okay? The issues,” he signed off.
“Always happy to talk,” Holt replied sheepishly.
Biden appeared to defend his previous statement that Democrats should put Donald Trump in a “bull’s-eye” less than a week before the former president was shot, claiming, “I didn’t say crosshairs.”
“I guess I was talking about at the time was there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda,” Biden said.
“Yeah, the term was ‘bull’s-eye,’” Holt pointed out.
Biden briefly seemed to acknowledge it was a “mistake” before breaking off mid-sentence and attempting to differentiate between a bull’s-eye and a gun’s crosshairs.
“It was a mistake to use the wor — I didn’t say crosshairs, I meant bull’s-eye, I meant focus on him, focus on what he’s doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate,” Biden said.
Republicans have slammed Biden for his rhetoric in the run-up to the Saturday assassination attempt, including his remark at a Michigan event that Trump would regain power “over my dead body” and a Friday post on X (formerly Twitter) labeling Trump a “dictator.”
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