Pod Save America Hosts Roast Biden For ‘Disappearing’ and Making It ‘Easier and Easier To Forget’ Trump Isn’t Actually President Yet
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The hosts of Pod Save America accused President Joe Biden of “disappearing” from the public eye and making it “easier and easier to forget” that President-elect Donald Trump is not actually in the White House yet.
Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — all former aides under former President Barack Obama — all expressed some dissatisfaction with Biden’s handling of his final days in office. Favreau argued Trump is already acting like he’s president, making policy announcements and meeting with heads of state and billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg.
Favreau noted Trump’s recent Mar-a-Lago press conference where he announced a $100 billion investment from the Japanese SoftBank into American AI technologies.
“It was more or less a standard presidential policy announcement, the main difference being: Trump isn’t president yet! A fact that’s getting easier and easier to forget as Joe Biden seems to be disappearing from the public stage as his term comes to an end,” he said.
Lovett called the press conference a “funhouse mirror version of a presidential announcement.”
“Joe Biden believes in tradition and institutions and we should only have one president at a time, and I think it’s a surprising choice to allow it to be Donald Trump,” he sarcastically said.
Vietor questioned why Biden did not attend the Army-Navy football game over the weekend, saying he was “shocked” Biden has never attended the event as president. Trump meanwhile attended the game.
“Trump generally is very good at using social events to, like, show off this kind of pageantry and trappings of the presidency. He does it better than, I think, any president in our lifetime, better than Obama, better than Biden,” he said.
The three expressed hope that Biden could get some important things accomplished, pointing to a memo from the White House promising the president will be pushing through more pardons and hopefully reducing more student loan debt. Lovett questioned though how “in command” Biden is, expressing regret for not “being more honest” about Biden when the president was still running for reelection. He argued the Democratic Party is “paying dearly” for sticking with Biden’s reelection bid before a last minute switch to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Lovett argued:
I’m trying to separate basically my frustration with Joe Biden in his final year, culminating in that debate and hanging on, and how much we paid for having somebody who just wasn’t an articulate and comprehensive messenger, not just on behalf of his own presidency, but on behalf of progressivism, democracy — and I am very angry about that and I’m a little bit mad at myself for not being more honest about how I felt or not seeing it as plainly because we’re obviously paying dearly for it. I guess what I’m more concerned about than am I seeing Joe Biden enough — maybe he’s right that people don’t want to hear from him — it’s more, like, do I feel confident right now that Joe Biden behind the scenes is thinking of every single way he can try to future-proof the White House.
Watch above via Pod Save America (relevant portion 11:29-19:17).
