'Village idiot': Biden mocked for bringing up JFK in bid to relate to minorities in Black radio interview

WASHINGTON, DC: In an interview released Thursday, July 4, President Joe Biden said he understood the Black community's struggle for representation.

The 81-year-old incumbent POTUS mentioned that he didn't believe Catholics could be elected president before John F Kennedy's election over six decades ago, according to the New York Post.

During an interview with Pennsylvania radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders, President Biden emphasized his nomination of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and said what it would mean for “a young girl who is in school and having trouble.”

“I looked at John Kennedy and said, ‘Well, he — John — he got elected. Why can’t I get elected?'” the Commander-in-Chief said. “People need things to look up to.”

Just moments before, Biden made a perplexing claim that “I’m the first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid.”

Some may view this slip-up as evidence of his advanced age, particularly in the wake of his recent lackluster debate performance against former President Donald Trump.

What did President Joe Biden say during his radio interview?

“A lot of people are talking about the debate and your performance – do the American people need to be concerned?” Lawful-Sanders inquired, much to Joe Biden's apparent annoyance.

“No, I had a bad debate – I had a bad debate,” he replied with a nervous laugh. “But 90 minutes on stage does not erase what I’ve done for three and a half years.”

The Democrat statesman’s appearance was one of two pre-recorded interviews with Black radio stations in swing states broadcast Thursday.

In the second interview, with 'The Earl Ingram Show' from Wisconsin, Biden simply remarked that he "screwed up" during his debate with Trump, frequently losing his train of thought and stumbling over his words.

“I had a bad night, I had a bad night,” Biden responded with a chuckle. “The fact of the matter is that, you know, it was – I screwed up, I made a mistake and, but I learned from my father, when you get knocked down, just get back up. Get back up.”

“And, you know, we’re going to do, we’re going to win this election. We’re going to just beat Donald Trump as, like we did in 2020, we’re going to beat him again,” he claimed.

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During both radio interviews, President Biden delivered extensive remarks, targeting the recent criminal conviction of former President Trump in New York pertaining to falsified business records to conceal evidence of hush money payments to two women in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

“First of all, the guy I’m running against is a convicted felon who has said he wants to be a dictator on day one – not a joke, he means it,” he told Lawful-Sanders.

“And he’s appointed the Supreme Court that has had outrageous decisions made, not just on choice but on freedom across the board.”

“They just said that he has immunity, and I have immunity – which I reject – immunity to do things if I, even if I did things that wouldn’t ordinarily be allowed, if I did it in the name of my job I could avoid prosecution,” Biden remarked, describing the SCOTUS ruling as “outrageous.”

“Anyway, [I went into] too much detail,” the POTUS added, stopping himself midway through his rambling monologue.

President Biden also had trouble comparing himself with his predecessor, often stumbling over his words while describing the differences between himself and the 2024 presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

“He’s going to make the wealthy, large corporations pay their – I’m going to make sure they pay their fair share – he’s going to double down on tax rates for them,” he told Ingram. “And he wants to strengthen, he – I want to strengthen Medicare and Social Security, he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.”

“Look, I’m sorry to get so worked up, but he is just — he’s done terrible things in the community, and he has about as much interest and concern for Black and minority communities as the man in the morning does,” Biden said.

He went on to assert that he “led our economy back from the brink – it’s still improving – lowered prescription drug costs. You know, working with Republicans to expand veterans health care, rallied 50 nations to stand against Putin.”

“I’m proud of the record,” President Biden claimed. “And we just gotta keep moving.”

Internet trolls Biden for bringing up JFK in bid to relate to minorities

One X user remarked, "Some people dig themselves in deeper when trying to explain a mistake. This guy has a full team of workers with heavy equipment, and they're making a grand canyon equivalent hole! He has to quit..."

Another user said, "He lied his way through the entire interview from what I see."

Another user wrote, "Biden rambled? I’m shocked!"

One user claimed, "Biden is cringe from beginning to end, and the perfect puppet for the masters running the DNC."

Another X user quipped, "The village idiot."

Finally, this user tweeted, "It’s just his brain."

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