Joe Biden Addresses Age Concerns By Attacking Trump: ‘The Other Guy Can’t Remember His Wife’s Name!’
President Joe Biden had a good answer ready after Seth Meyers asked about concerns voters may have in supporting an 81-year-old candidate.
Biden returned to Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday evening, which was a 10-year anniversary special of its premiere episode, which also featured (then-Vice President) Biden.
Coming out of a commercial break, Meyers mentioned that he doesn’t host a “gotcha show” but noted how some recently leaked classified documents reveal that Biden is 81.
“Who the hell told you that?” Biden quipped in what appeared to be a scripted bit. “That’s classified,” to which the audience of apparent Biden supporters applauded.
“All jokes aside, according to recent polling, this is a real concern for American voters,” Meyers said about polls on Biden’s age. “How do you address that concern going forward as you come up to the 2024 election?”
“Well, a couple things. Number one, you got to take a look at the other guy,” Biden replied. “He’s about as old as I am, but he can’t remember his wife’s name.”
Biden is referencing a recent gaffe by former President Donald Trump during a CPAC speech in which he mentioned the name Mercedes instead of Melania. Mercedes Schlapp is the wife of CPAC founder Matt Schlapp.
“It’s about how old your ideas are,” Biden continued. “Look, I mean, this is a guy who wants to take us back …he wants to take us back in Roe v Wade. He wants to take us back on a whole range of issues that are 50, 60 years. They’ve been solid American positions.”
Biden: And I really mean this sincerely. They, I think it’s about, about the future and everything, every single thing we’ve done, I think we’ve got some good things done. Everything, and they told us we couldn’t get them done because things were so divided. And, but I think everything’s everything we’ve gotten done, he’s just finally stated he wants to do away with if he gets elected. And I really think his views on where to take America are older than, anyway, I don’t want to get going.
Meyers: You talked about bipartisanship and that you can actually work across the aisle. When you ran in 2020, I was one of the people who thought that was maybe a foolish proposition. But you have gotten things done. Infrastructure chips, Inflation Reduction Act, some gun safety. You even got an immigration bill that passed in the Senate but never got taken up in the House. And what do you would you want to do? What’s your 2024 agenda? Because I feel like we live in such crazy times that that is one of the things I feel we hear less about.
Biden: Look, the 2020 agenda is to finish the job. For example, we’re now in a position where we have the strongest economy of any major nation in the world. Number one, we got a way to go. Yeah, inflation is down 880,000 manufacturing jobs. You know, we have, 14 million new jobs. The unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been for the longest time. We’re building wealth for people. But it really we have to do more. First thing I have to do is stop it from being turned around. For example, you said you talked about the border didn’t pass. Well, guess what? We’re going to pass that border. It’s overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly supported by Republicans and Democrats in House and Senate. But because I don’t know this very fact, but I was told that Trump was picking up the phone call and speaker of the House saying, don’t let it pass. Why not? Because you don’t think it’s good because it will benefit Biden. That’s no way to run a country. That’s no way to deal. We didn’t even when we had real divisions back when I was a young senator, among Democrats and Republicans, that that wasn’t the way it worked. And look, I think. Let me put. This is not your father’s Republican Party. This is they’ve got about 30% of the Republican Party controlling at all. And, and I think it’s we’re going to break it.
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