Biden trolled over claim he's 'getting calls' from European leaders as his achievements are being undone

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: Joe Biden lamented that some of his presidency’s key accomplishments were “changing so rapidly” under the Trump administration and that he's "getting calls" from European leaders to "get engaged."

In his most extended public appearance since announcing his prostate cancer diagnosis back in May, the 82-year-old former president took the stage at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) convention in San Diego and spoke at length.

Biden opened up about his post-White House life in a nearly hour-long keynote followed by a Q&A, the New York Post reported.

Joe Biden doing 'a lot of research' for his own memoir

Biden revealed he’s deep into writing his next memoir, which will focus exclusively on his four years as president.

Apparently, there’s a deadline looming. “Every president is expected to write a memoir,” he told SHRM CEO Johnny C Taylor Jr. “Most take between 3 and 6 years to get it done,” he added — but his publisher wants it done by March.

“So, I’m working like hell with a publisher to write another 500-page book … I’ve been doing a lot of that, a lot of research,” he said.

But he was game, noting that limiting the scope to just his presidential years made the job “a bit easier.”

The writing gig is just part of Biden’s retirement hustle. When asked what else he’s been up to since leaving office, he gave a ten-minute, rambling response. “Well, you know … it sounds strange … the problem is there is not a lot of time," he began.

Joe Biden says he's 'getting calls' from leaders 'to get engaged'

Though he never mentioned President Donald Trump by name, Biden made it clear he wasn’t thrilled with how things have changed under the current administration. “Many of the things I worked so damn hard [on] that I thought I changed in the country are changing so rapidly,” he lamented.

“I’m getting calls—I’m not going to go into it, I can’t—from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged,” he claimed. “I’m not, because things are different,” he clarified. “I’m not, but I’m giving advice.”

He even claimed bipartisan interest for his quiet advisory role, saying that he's "been dealing with a lot of Democrat and Republican colleagues calling me … wanting to talk and bounce things off of me.”

Taylor quipped, “World peace? That’s nice to do in retirement,” to which Biden earnestly responded, “All kidding aside, how can you just walk away? You don’t see me out there publicly doing a lot of this.”

Biden was not done patting himself on the back. He took credit for strengthening NATO, saying the alliance was “in shambles” when he took office, and claimed that he “took on” Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. “We strengthened NATO in a significant way,” he said.

Despite his age and health setbacks, Biden hasn’t been laying low entirely. The Wall Street Journal reported that he's been traveling to Washington, DC, about once a week from his Delaware home for meetings. That’s in between research for the memoir and what he called “laying rubber with my ’67 Corvette on my driveway.”

He also stressed how connected he remains to his family. “Every single day, I contact every single one of my grandchildren," he told the audience—a comment that raised eyebrows considering Biden repeatedly failed to acknowledge the out-of-wedlock daughter of his son Hunter Biden while in office, the Post reported.

Joe Biden trolled for his claims that world leaders are calling him

Naturally, not everyone’s buying Biden’s claims of being some behind-the-scenes consigliere to global politics. Social media was quick to mock the idea that the octogenarian was fielding calls from world leaders.

"He’s received calls from Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Jacques Chirac, and Queen Elizabeth the Second," one quipped on X.

"And then he woke up," a second user added.

"I’m giving a 30% chance Joey walnuts knows he’s writing a memoir. Similarly, I’m giving a 10% chance Europe is fiendin for Admiral Joe to weigh in on anything, let alone calling him. Love the effort and random spin here, though," another chimed in.

"It’ll be known as an I don’t rememoir," read a comment.

"He also said he was Mahatma Gandhi, and that he lives on Mars," someone else joked.

"Yes Joe, we beg you to go on TV and mumble your way into further oblivion," another added.

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