Biden, 81, says Trump, 77, is ‘as old as me’ to hit back at age critics and jokes his ‘conspiracy’ with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce is ‘classified’ in softball Seth Meyers interview where he blames DONALD for the border crisis
Joe Biden blamed his predecessor for the border situation and quipped that Donald Trump ‘is about as old as I am’ in a soft-soap interview with Seth Meyers. Meyers indulged the 81-year-old president with another simple inquiry regarding Taylor Swift, adding to his already extraordinary crisis of confidence stemming from a series of missteps attributed to his aging.
Playing to the gallery, Biden—the oldest US president in history—joked that it’s “classified” if he’s involved in a plot to win the November election between Swift and her tight-end boyfriend, Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Meyers’ liberal-leaning NBC show featured a bit in which he took Biden out for ice cream. The president expressed his optimism that the Israel-Gaza crisis would end in a few days while taking cone slurps.
A source has revealed that the goal of Donald Trump’s team is to frustrate Judge Tanya Chutkan’s efforts to hold his criminal trial before election day. As per a CNN story, the former president’s lawyers might leverage his unclassified documents case at Mar-a-Lago in Florida to present fresh obstacles in his two ongoing criminal prosecutions, with the aim of enhancing the campaign environment.
Meyers did question Biden about escalating worries that he is too elderly to rule the free world. “Take a look at the other guy, he’s about as old as I am,” remarked Joe Biden, the oldest president in American history, after joking that the details of his age are “classified.” He beat the previous mark that the 77-year-old Trump had set.
In addition, he attacked Trump and the Republican Party for their handling of the immigration situation, saying the former president is to blame for destroying an immigration reform agreement.
“We will pass that border bill; it has the overwhelming support of both Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate. However, because—I’m not positive, but I’ve been told—Trump is picking up the phone and calling the Speaker of the House to demand that it not be passed.”
‘Why? He asserted, “This is not your father’s Republican Party, not because he doesn’t think it’s good, but because it would benefit Biden.” “That is not a proper method for managing a nation.”
Trump and his allies oppose the $118 billion package, citing its weakness, while some Democrats and progressives believe it would severely harm the asylum process at great human cost. The bill also blends money for Israel and Ukraine with border protection.
The law would completely change how asylum is handled at the border if it were to succeed in spite of the steep obstacles. Once considered a secondary concern, asylum is now the main issue at the border. Early in February, Trump made the claim that the law amounts to a “death wish” for the Republican Party in 2024.
“This is a Democratic snare,” Republicans are falling into a trap; signing a bill like this would be incredibly naive and idiotic. Trump declared that he could not sign this law. In light of Trump’s views on abortion and other topics that have long been considered “solid American positions,” Biden argued that his principles were more significant than his age.
Additionally, he had a good time bantering with the first guest, Amy Poehler, with whom he had previously appeared on the show and had guest featured on her sitcom in 2015. What matters is the age of your concepts. See, this is a guy who truly wants to bring us back. He claimed that he wanted to return us to Roe v. Wade
Apparently alluding to his predecessor’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend outside of Washington, Biden even joked that Trump ‘can’t remember his wife’s name’.
Following his compliments to his wife Melania, Trump made reference to a “Mercedes,” which caused confusion on social media. Eventually, it was determined that Mercedes Schlapp, his former assistant who assists in running the organization, was in the audience.
Biden reiterated his prior attacks on Trump for reportedly implying that he would support Russian President Vladimir Putin in invading NATO nations that had not fulfilled their financial obligations.
‘Oh, I could get him,’ Poehler quipped in response to Meyers’ statement that Biden had a “bigger job now, so he was unavailable” to participate on the show for its tenth anniversary. Biden then answered by going onstage.
The president further chastised Trump for promising to pardon individuals who attacked law enforcement officials and attempted to rig the 2020 presidential election, as well as for glorifying those who took part in the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021.
In light of Trump’s views on abortion and other topics that have long been considered “solid American positions,” Biden argued that his principles were more significant than his age. That’s the situation in nations in Eastern Europe, according to Biden. “That is not the way things work in America.”
In addition, Biden addressed more questions about the Israel-Hamas conflict and the conspiracy theory that he rigged the Super Bowl for Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs in order to get Taylor Swift’s endorsement.
Biden swung by Van Leeuwen for some mint chip ice cream after filming the interview, and Meyers went along and got the honeycomb flavor. He had earlier been pressed about the Middle East issue at a midtown hotel where he was attending an event with donors.
While late-night shows are still a mainstay of US television, they are increasingly more concerned with producing social media content that has the potential to go viral among younger audiences in addition to home TV viewers.
In an attempt to reach a younger audience on a site that Washington officially regards as a security danger, Biden once again shunned the president’s customary Super Bowl TV interview earlier this month and made his debut on TikTok.
Along with producing lighter content for social media, his team also aims to attract voters who steer clear of news websites and television. As president, Biden has appeared on a few friendly TV shows and conducted talks with podcasters and YouTube celebrities. A recent poll finds that 86% of American voters believe Biden is too elderly to serve another term in office.
The president further chastised Trump for promising to pardon individuals who attacked law enforcement officials and attempted to rig the 2020 presidential election, as well as for glorifying those who took part in the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021.
Additionally, Biden reiterated his recent criticism of Trump for implying that he would support Russian President Vladimir Putin in an invasion of NATO nations that had failed to fulfill their financial obligations. ‘Oh, I could get him,’ Poehler quipped in response to Meyers’ statement that Biden had a “bigger job now, so he was unavailable” to appear for the show’s tenth anniversary. Biden then answered by going onstage.·
It happens after a damning Justice Department assessment surfaced, which said that Biden’s ‘diminished faculties’ and fading memory were grounds for not prosecuting him in the case involving the sensitive papers. In the meantime, 77-year-old former president Donald Trump is seen as too old for another term in office by 62 percent of participants in the ABC News/Ipsos survey.
Of the respondents, 59% believe that the two most senior rivals for 2024 are too elderly, and 27% believe that the incumbent president is the only one who is too old to be disregarded. In another survey, conducted by the Financial Times, Trump leads Biden by 11 points among respondents who believe they can manage the economy, from 42 percent to 31 percent.
Ever since an ABC News/Washington Post survey in September revealed that 47% of Americans believed that Biden was too old to hold public office and 49% believed the same of Trump, there has been growing concern over the ages of both candidates and their suitability for office. In American history, Biden is the oldest president. In January 2021, at the age of 78, he took office, shattering Trump’s record by eight years.
Of US voters, over 8.5 percent believe that President Joe Biden is too elderly to serve another term, compared to only 62% who think the same of President Trump. Biden became enraged during a press conference over the charge made by DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur that he misremembered the dates of his vice presidential term and didn’t know when his son Beau passed away. Biden would be 82 years old when he took office if he were elected to a second term.
73 percent of Democrats believe that Biden is too elderly, compared to only 35 percent of Republicans when considering simply the views of their own party. Independents, who make up 71% of this voting bloc, agree that Biden is too elderly, with 91% of them saying as much.