We Got Joe Biden’s List of Absurd Demands for Speaking Gigs
18th April 2025
Joe Biden, 82, is still eligible to run for president again in 2028, and hasn’t ruled anything out. The frail geezer shuffled gingerly back into the national spotlight this week, giving the keynote address at a convention of disability rights advocates in Chicago.
It was Biden’s first major speech since leaving office, and it didn’t get off to a great start. He wandered up to the microphone and started talking while his Bruce Springsteen entrance music was still blaring over the loudspeakers. The speech was supposed to be about Social Security. Naturally, the former president opened with a long-winded, inscrutable anecdote about Delaware’s history as a slave state, his father’s career prospects after “coal died” in Pennsylvania, his memory of watching the “colored kids” get bused to school, and how the latter supposedly inspired him to go into politics for the rest of his life. For good measure, Biden blasted “roughly 30 percent” of Americans—the ones who strongly support Donald Trump and his agenda—for having “no heart.”