Former President Joe Biden is, for whatever reason, trying to get back in the public spotlight after dropping out of the 2024 presidential election and seeing his picked successor lose badly, and so he appeared on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, May 8 and ended up humiliating himself while trying to attack President Trump.
That came when former President Biden was commenting on his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race over the summer, giving then-Vice President Harris just months to try to build and run a campaign. As he did so, he ended up getting all the details wrong and making a mockery of himself.
That came when “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin asked him, “Well, Mr. President, some have even argued that leaving the race and endorsing your vice president, Vice President Harris, a hundred, over a hundred days before the election hampered her campaign. What do you say to those critics?”
Beginning, former President Biden got his response wrong from the start, doubling the amount of time he gave VP Harris to build her campaign after he dropped out of the presidential race. Doing so, he told Hostin, “I say, number one, that there were still six full months.”
He then went on to ramble about his administration being a big success, something that voters quite obviously disagreed with, saying, “She [Harris] was in every aspect, every decision I made, every decision we made. And I don’t think, I hope I didn’t sound the wrong way. I don’t think anybody thought we’d be successful as we were.”
Further, he claimed that his various spending bills, such as the CHIPS Act were major successes, saying, “I don’t think anybody thought we’d pass the Recovery Act. I don’t think anyone thought we’d have. We deal with chips and science. I don’t think anybody thinks we’d have all we got done in a close race.”
Then, ignoring the inflation disaster he was known for, Biden started rambling about economics, saying, “Think about it. We got more major legislation passed to fundamentally change the direction of the country than any president has in a long, long time. And so we’re in a situation where we came to office, and we agreed on two things. One, I was sick and tired of trickle-down economics. And my dad used to say, not a whole lot trickle down in his kitchen table.”
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Continuing with that point, a crazy one given that one of President Trump’s most effective messages was that the Biden economy was a disaster thanks to notoriously high Bidenflation, the former president declared that it was a “fact” that he was good for the economy.
Doing so, and getting extra absurd by claiming that the middle and lower classes, which is to say those most hurt by high inflation, were benefited by his policies, former President Biden said, “And so we built the economy from the middle out and the bottom up. The strongest economy in the world, where we left. That’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact.”
Watch him here: