Joe Biden called the sitting president a "loser" from a casino stage Saturday night, then needed directions to find the exit — and the press ran it like it matters while the country he left behind still can't afford groceries.
Two years after his debate collapse got him pushed out of his own reelection race, the 83-year-old delivered a 10-minute teleprompter speech at the Maryland Democratic Party's Fight Back & Win summit at the Live! Casino & Hotel near Baltimore. He attacked Trump's "vanity projects" — a White House ballroom, his name on the Kennedy Center, an arch, the reflecting pool. "Woah! What a loser," Biden said to applause. CNN framed it as "one of his most pointed critiques" of Trump since leaving office. The New York Post led with what CNN buried: Biden turning side to side after his remarks, pointing in two directions, needing guidance to locate the exit before walking off with his back to the audience.
It was a replay of days earlier at the Obama presidential library opening, where a bewildered Biden shouted "Where's my granddaughter?" while wandering the stage, at times guided by Jill Biden. On Saturday, he squinted at the teleprompter and coughed loudly early in his remarks.
Biden accused Trump of "brazen, blatant corruption on a scale never seen before in American history" — quite a charge from the man whose son Hunter became a fixture in the national conversation over his business entanglements and addiction struggles while Joe was vice president. That same Hunter now boasts over 800,000 X followers, sat for a two-hour interview with Candace Owens, and has challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a cage match. Jill Biden is on a memoir tour where she admitted she thought her husband might be "having a stroke" during his 2024 debate disaster. A former Biden spokesperson, Andrew Bates, told the Post the family is reopening "painful" party wounds. The former first lady's response: "Call me up, and say it to my face."
Biden told the Maryland crowd that "Americans are saying the economy under the Biden administration is a hell of a lot better than under Trump." Just 30% of the public agrees — his lowest favorability number ever, per CNN's own SSRS polling. He made no mention of democratic socialists sweeping three New York primaries, the real fight consuming his party. No mention of the inflation still crushing family budgets. No mention of the open border or the billions shipped overseas on his watch. He did claim Trump wants to give "taxpayers' money" to January 6 defendants: "These people don't deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time."
Biden is battling Stage 4 prostate cancer. That's not a punchline. But neither is the state of the country he handed off.
The referee isn't just biased — it's amplifying casino name-calling from a 30-percent-approval ex-president while the tab for his term keeps coming due for working Americans.
