Biden Sits Down For Interview With ‘The View’
Former President Joe Biden’s long-awaited return to U.S. television didn’t bring reassurance—it brought confirmation. In his first broadcast appearance since leaving office, Biden joined his wife, Jill, on The View, only to visibly struggle through a garbled and fragmented response when asked to address questions surrounding his cognitive decline. What followed wasn’t a defense—it was a display.
Asked by cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin to respond to accounts in several “deeply sourced” books by Democrats pointing to a dramatic cognitive downturn in his final year, Biden’s answer was anything but reassuring.
“They are wrong,” he began—before launching into a disjointed series of statements that further undercut his own denial. Referencing the Capitol riot, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state of the nation “when I started,” Biden rambled through half-finished thoughts, contradictory phrasing, and visible confusion.
Former Pres. Biden responds to reports questioning his cognitive abilities while in office, saying on #TheView, “They are wrong.”
“The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,” former first lady Jill Biden added. “If you look at things today, give me Joe… pic.twitter.com/JndjhBmDMf
— The View (@TheView) May 8, 2025
“And we’re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won’t go into in the interest of time,” he said—an admission that did little to clarify matters and even less to reassure viewers. “So, we went to work and we got it done, you know, one of the. Well, I’m…” he added, trailing off into silence.
That silence was quickly filled by Jill Biden, who stepped in with a forceful but ultimately unconvincing defense. “They didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day,” she insisted, painting a picture of a tireless leader burning the midnight oil. But her husband, sitting silently, arms folded, eyes fixed, offered no support—not even a nod. The awkward stillness that followed said more than her words ever could.
The View’s Late-to-the-Party Take on Biden’s Decline
“But I did look at him and think, I think maybe you do need to step aside.”
“It was the Democratic Party that made that choice, that said, you’re betraying him if you call it like you see it.” pic.twitter.com/UK30AE5B5c
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 4, 2025
Even The View’s typically loyal panelists seemed at a loss. Gone was the performative applause and fawning praise. Instead, there was uncomfortable quiet, the kind that follows a moment of realization too heavy to ignore. It wasn’t long ago—April 4, to be precise—that one of the show’s own cohosts admitted the truth: “Maybe you do need to step aside.”
The upcoming release of 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America sheds even more light on what was happening behind the scenes. According to its authors—reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post—Biden’s aides were seriously debating whether to have him take a cognitive test. That they chose not to speaks volumes. They knew the risks. They knew the likely result. And they knew what the American people would see.