President Joe Biden appeared for a live, in-studio appearance on ABC’s The View on Wednesday, and the fawning over the president by the hosts inspired mockery and criticism across social media.
“Find someone who looks at you the way the ladies of The View look at Biden,” Nicholas Fondacaro of Media Research Center quipped on X, formerly Twitter.
“After 50 years of proud public service, President Joe Biden stepped up to lead us out of the dark of a very divisive era and became one of the most substantial presidents of the past half century,” Whoopi Goldberg praised the president as she introduced him on the show.
The hosts took turns hugging and shaking hands with the president as he walked onstage.
As the crowd applauded Biden, co-host Joy Behar said to him, “They love you! They love you!”
Co-host Sara Haines began the interview by asking Biden about his decision to step aside and “putting his country before any personal ambition” in the election.
An audience member interrupted her question by shouting, “We love you, Joe!”
“It’s like having one of the Beatles at the table,” Haines gushed in response.
Following the interview, co-host Sunny Hostin likened Biden’s legacy to one of America’s Founding Fathers, George Washington.
“I truly believe that Biden’s legacy will be etched in the history books as Washington,” Hostin said.
The Trump campaign’s social media account “Trump War Room” shared fact-checks and responses to Biden throughout the interview.
When Biden was asked if he felt his “hand was forced” in dropping out of the election, the Trump campaign’s account remarked, “His hand was forced by the same Democrats — Kamala chief among them — who perpetrated a fraud by covering for his cognitive decline.”
“Biden gets asked on the The View if Pelosi forced him out of the presidential race. His immediate reaction let’s you know that the answer is definitely yes,” a social media user said.
In the interview, Biden said his polling showed that he would have beaten former President Donald Trump but his age made him reflect about his life.
“It’s hard for me to even say how old I am. No, I’m serious. I give my word. It’s like, holy God, that can’t be right. That just can’t be right,” Biden said.
81-year-old host Behar chimed in, “I’m your age, by the way. The number gives me vertigo.”
Biden took her hand in his, which made her swoon.
Goldberg told Biden that she didn’t like “the way they did it” in pushing him out because he was her “ride or die.”
The Sister Act star continued to rip on Trump, calling him an annoying “bug” to which Biden responded by pretending to smash a bug on the table, which elicited a roaring applause by the television audience.
“This Is Sickening! On The View today, co-host Whoopi Goldberg compares Donald Trump to a small bug as current sitting President Joe Biden pretends to ‘squish’ him. More violent rhetoric from the left against the former President,” a social media user reacted.
Biden also tied his legacy to the current Democratic candidate.
“As Vice President, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that she couldn’t do and so I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy,” Biden said to the hosts.
Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the former president, chimed in to react to Biden’s comment.
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“Straight from Biden’s mouth: Kamala Harris 100% owns every single bad policy of the last four years that led to inflation, wars breaking out across the world and our wide open southern border!” Trump Jr. said on X.
In addition to his appearance on The View, the president traveled to New York to deliver remarks to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
