Joe Biden just can’t help himself.
The former president shuffled out onto the stage at the National Bar Association’s 100th annual gala in Chicago Thursday night and gave a speech that sounded like it was pulled straight from the 2020 campaign trail — except now, he’s not the guy in charge, and his audience knows it.
Former President Biden walks on stage at the National Bar Association Gala, and has no idea where the hell he is.
Frightening to think this old bag was sitting in the Oval Office a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/om7hPKF5Vn
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 1, 2025
“Not since those tumultuous days in 1960s has this fight been so existential to who we are as a nation, with marginalized groups so dramatically under attack,” Biden declared, trying to frame Trump’s administration as a civil rights apocalypse. He accused Trump of “erasing fairness, equality… erasing justice itself,” insisting it wasn’t hyperbole — “that’s a fact.”
But here’s another fact: Joe Biden is no longer president. Trump is. Biden’s party didn’t even want him on the ballot in 2024, and voters showed him the door. So why is he still out here delivering the same tired “Trump is evil” stump speech that failed to keep him in power? If anything, that rhetoric helped Trump expand his voter base and win his old job back.
Sharp as a tack behind closed doors, Steve.
— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) August 1, 2025
And let’s not gloss over what’s becoming the elephant in the room: Biden’s health. For months, whispers swirled that he was hiding serious medical issues while in office — including prostate cancer. His personal physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, clammed up and pled the Fifth when Congress asked questions. Other aides followed suit. Meanwhile, the American public saw what they saw: a president in visible decline. Thursday night’s speech only reinforced that image.
This is the tragic part — Biden clearly wants to matter again, but even his own party is done with him. Democrats have moved on, and the country has too. That’s what makes this whole thing so sad. Instead of bowing out gracefully, Biden’s out here rehashing the same “Trump is destroying democracy” lines that got him nowhere.
Joe Biden says Trump is trying to “dismantle” the Constitution.
“I’m being deadly earnest, man.” pic.twitter.com/uY5sKjwAUj
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 1, 2025
