In yet another one of those awful moments for President Biden that seem to be stacking up recently, the elderly and ever-aging president became quite agitated and repeatedly snapped at NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt during an interview meant to make the president look better and more mentally competent in the wake of the awful debate.
Biden’s poor performance turned the interview into the opposite of what it was meant to do, with the president’s easy-coming agitation adding to the concerns that the elderly president is neither physically or mentally fit for yet another four long years in the highly demanding office of the President of the United States.
At one point during the Monday, July 15 interview, Biden snapped, at one point, “What’s with you guys? Come on, man!” That came when the president was attempting to defend his highly vitriolic characterizations of former President Donald Trump, his 2020 and likely 2024 campaign opponent, even as he calls on America to “lower the temperature” in the wake of the assassination attempt.
Holt also asked about whether Biden understands the criticisms of his age, asking, “Are you seeing what [viewers] saw, which was moments of frankly, that appeared to be — you appeared to be confused?” Biden fired back, snapping at Holt for asking the question, “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.”
Continuing, Biden snapped at Holt for asking about his advanced age and voter concerns about it rather than turning the interview into yet another media-based attack on the former president, this one just days after the horrific assassination attempt. Biden said, making that angry point, “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.”
Holt pushed back on Biden’s characterization of his network’s coverage of the former president, saying that NBC has indeed covered many of his supposed lies. Holt said, “We have reported many of the issues.” President Biden wasn’t appeased by that. Fuming, he fired back, “No, you haven’t! No, you haven’t! God love you!”
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Watch another of the awkward interview moments here:
At another point, Biden ranted and rambled about the Supreme Court and “democracy,” saying, “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.”
And, in another one of Biden’s angry, snapping moments, Holt asked, “Is there a sense of wanting to get back on the horse?” and Biden, fuming yet again, responded, “I’m on the horse, where have you been?” He continued, “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.”
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