Joe Biden's Much-Hyped Final Interview Put The Last Nail In His Political Coffin

Posted • January 17, 2025: Joe Biden sat down with Lawrence O'Donnell to give his final interview. After 50 years of abject failure, his time on the national stage is mercifully coming to an end, and not a moment too soon. Why was a low-rated MSNBC host chosen to do the honors? It's not much of a mystery. This was O'Donnell after Biden's "big boy" press conference during the 2024 election. -- MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Joe Biden: "Nothing less than the most masterful televised presidential press conference about foreign policy... This is as good as it gets with an American president." https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1811957201033932800/pu/vid/avc1/1304x720/1Lbsz1nj5MAj8qnN.mp4 -- Far from "as good as it gets with an American president," it was a senility-ridden, meandering mess that got so bad that White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to stand up and end it early. Biden even managed to mix up Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, which would seem impossible for anyone with a functioning brain. So what does that tell you?

O'Donnell was no less shameless in conducting this final interview. He lauded Biden's supposed "accomplishments" as unmatched in his lifetime. For context, he's 73 years old, which means he was alive as far back as Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. Moving on to what Biden had to say, as my colleague Bob Hoge shared in his write-up of some of the earlier clips, it was bitter and delusional, with the president attacking those who managed to succeed under him while excusing all of his own mistakes. For example, he claimed "red states" mismanaged their economies during his term. That despite over half of the nation's job growth occurring in Texas and Florida while the unemployment rate in red states overall was below the national average. Delusional, indeed. With more clips coming out, things aren't getting any better. When asked about a possible nuclear confrontation with Putin, Biden went off on a wild rant that can only be described as completely incoherent. After watching this multiple times, I still have no idea what he was trying to say.

O'Donnell gave Biden a softball about the country being turned into an oligarchy," which was a charge the president ranted about in his train wreck of a farewell address. Put his rambling senility aside because that's a given and see if you can spot the issues with what he's saying. I want to note that Biden's parents were firmly middle-class when he was growing up so the idea that "none of that ever trickled down to his kitchen table" is false. Biden grew up in one of the greatest economic boom cycles the nation has ever experienced post-World War II. So I have no idea what he's talking about. Likewise, I have no idea what "access to healthcare" and "access to education" has to do with the claim that oligarchs are going to run the country under Biden. What I do know is that twice as many billionaires supported Kamala Harris than Donald Trump. I also know that Biden gave the Medal of Freedom to two billionaires just a few weeks prior.

Further, while the suggestion is that oligarchs (presumably, he means Elon Musk) will control the "apparatuses of the media," the government has done far more to quell free speech than any billionaire has. Biden is simply projecting his own disastrous, authoritarian policies onto "oligarchs" because he doesn't otherwise have a defense for them. Lastly, Biden was confronted about Donald Trump's role in the recent Gaza ceasefire. He claimed that the incoming president had nothing to do with it. Biden's own State Department said Trump's team was instrumental in garnering that deal. Every the petty, vindictive clown, though, Biden simply couldn't bring himself to admit that. This interview is the final interview is also the final nail in his political coffin. Biden will go down in history as one of the worst presidents to ever hold the office, with his only legacy being the ushering of Donald Trump back into the White House. No amount of slobbering from MSNBC hacks will change that. (…)

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