LOS ANGELES.–Giving interviews 10 days from ending his one-and-only term as president, the mainstream press wants to record for posterity 82-year-old President Joe Biden’s accomplishments, starting with whether or not he would have beaten Trump in match-up in 2024. “Who the hell knows,” Biden said about whether he could have dispatched 78-year-old President Donald Trump this time around. When it comes to whether he could have finished four more years, Biden seems more uncertain, though he touted his fitness, insisting he hadn’t lost a beat. But if a reporter wants to record the last interview before Biden leaves office, he or she must placate the president in practically every way. Certainly no one can ask Biden whether 60-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris covered up his cognitive disabilities. Kamala said the Joe was “sharp as a tack,” not accounting for his abysmal June 27, 20204 CNN debate.
As long as the topic allows Biden to paint his own legacy, how he wants to be remembered, it’s OK to interview him without drawing attention to anything controversial. Biden says when he met with Trump in November 2024, part of his transition duties, he said Trump complimented him on the economy. Biden insists he didn’t start inflation that hit nearly 10% in 2022, two years after trillions in pandemic relief and infrastructure spending bills. Biden likes to say he inherited inflation from Trump but the hard facts show in 1.4% inflation rate in 2020, not today’s 2.7% rate. Biden is the first to take credit for the economy’s soft landing, knowing there’s little a president can do to impact monetary policy, something performed by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. Biden knows that mortgage interest rates average around 7% today, not 3% a few years ago.
Biden was asked whether he could have won the 2024 election. “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden admitted, knowing that all the polls showed him running well behind Kamala in beating Trump. When asked whether he had the stamina to go another four years, Biden was less cocky. “I don’t know,” Biden replied, showing for sure he doesn’t deal with reality. So when any reporter asks Biden questions about his four years in office, it’s all about how history records his presidency. Biden pretends to interviews he’s been commander-in-chief when he’s deferred to his underlings for years. “I think the only advantage of being an old guy is that I’ve known every major world leader for a long time. And so I had a perspective on each of them and their interests.” Biden said, not explaining why he would end decades of U.S.-Russian relations to take sides in the Ukraine War.
Biden wants reporters to respect his foreign policy experience but wants no questions of how he turned decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control into armed conflict. Democrats like to criticize Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, accusing him of isolationism when it’s exactly the opposite. Trump wants America’s NATO allies to pay to the Transatlantic Alliance their fair share of dues representing at least 3% of GDP. Biden thinks it’s OK to fund foreign wars like the one in Ukraine because he pretends he knows 72-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. So, instead of working out global conflicts with diplomacy, Biden opted to join a war with the Kremlin, morphing U.S.-Russian relations into mortal enemies. Maintaining cooperative, pragmatic relations with the Kremlin would have helped the U.S. resolve conflicts with Iran, Houthi rebels, Hamas and Hezbollah.
Biden hopes that history will be kind to his legacy or armed conflict and unending foreign wars. “I hope that history says that I came in and I had a plan how to restore the economy and reestablish America’s leadership in the world,” Biden said, knowing his economic legacy is one of runaway inflation, his foreign policy even worse with perpetual foreign wars. “That was my hope. I mean, you know, who knows? And I hope it records that I did it with honesty and integrity, that I said what was on my mind,” Biden said. Yes, Biden said what was on his mind too often, calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,” and Russia President Vladimir Putin a “murderous thug.” Biden thought that insulting foreign leaders put the U.S. in the best place for what: WW III or nuclear war? No journalist ever confronts Biden because he becomes too surly to continue interviews.
Biden can’t be serious asking reporters for adulation when he’s left Trump an economic and foreign policy mess. Biden says his biggest failure was countering misinformation, especially from Trump. Well, of course Biden doesn’t like to hear Trump call him to task on the economy or foreign policy. Dealing with facts was Biden’s biggest failure, largely because of his deteriorating mental state, leaving him incapable of managing the economy or foreign policy. Joining the Ukraine War against the Kremlin ended U.S.-Russian relations, endangering Europe and moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight. Democrats and the fake news did everything possible to cover-up Biden’s cognitive decline, endangering the country by allowing him to continue as commander-in-chief. Biden wants to invent his own legacy because he knows that facts are not on his side.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
