In a major eyebrow-raiser of a podcast interview, former NBC “Meet the Press” personality Chuck Todd sounded off on former President Joe Biden, delivering a stunning rebuke of the former president for being a “craven political animal” who cared far more about his political career than his own family, much in contrast to the message put out about him.
Todd, as background, left NBC News in January of 2025, doing so after spending almost two decades at that network. Before leaving, Todd had grown increasingly critical of former President Biden, even saying after Biden’s electoral loss that he shouldn’t have run because he was “emotionally incapable” of being an American leader.
In any case, Todd’s trashing of the former president came when Todd appeared on Sunday, March 2, on “The Warning” podcast, which is hosted by Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, a notorious RINO who will side with any Democrat instead of Trump. During that podcast, Todd decided to dismantle Biden’s legacy while also commenting on the media and its relationship with the second Trump administration.
Speaking to Schmidt about Biden in the context of complaints about elderly Democrats remaining in Democratic Party leadership instead of letting the next generation rise, Todd said, “You know, Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place, right? Number one, he shouldn’t have run for president [in 2020].”
Continuing, Todd dismantled Biden’s supposed legacy as a family man, noting that he chose to run for president at a time when numerous family members of his, including Hunter Biden and the widow of his deceased son Beau, were dealing with significant problems, namely very serious drug problems.
Commenting on that, Todd said, “I completely got so angry at Joe Biden, the man, when I read the transcript of the Hunter Biden trial, and when I realized that not one, not two, but three Biden children, and I count Beau’s widow, were all dealing with drug problems in 2018. And Joe Biden said, ‘Now’s a perfect time to run for president, because who cares about our family?'”
He then slammed the “mythology” of Biden being a family man, saying that that whole legacy and mythos is utter nonsense that’s not true at all. He said, “I have to tell you something about Joe Biden. There’s this mythology about Joe Biden, that the man cared so much, it’s all bullsh*t.”
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Building on that, Todd said that Biden had spent his four-decade career creating that myth, the lie that he was an “incredible family man,” but in reality, he was a politician focused on the presidency, not his family. He said, “And instead, what he really was, was a craven political animal that was desperate, that considered a run for president every four years that he was eligible.” Watch him here:
Commenting on the discussion and mocking Todd and Schmidt for taking so long to reach the obvious conclusion, Mark Hemingway said, “So Chuck Todd and Steve Schmidt agree that Joe Biden has been an absolutely craven politician his entire career and Donald Trump is a much better father. Now it can be told, I guess.”