Joe Biden hasn’t done a press interview in well over a hundred days, so this week he made an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show, obviously thinking it would be an easy spot.
As susual, Biden was wrong.
Even in this softball environment, Biden struggled. At one point, he tried to name his accomplishments but ended up babbling as Jimmy Kimmel cut to a commercial.
Twitchy has the transcript:
President Joe Biden: So there’s a lot of major things we’ve done, but what we haven’t done is we haven’t been able to communicate it in a way that is, um, [garbled] another way.
Jimmy Kimmel: Well, see, that’s kind of perfect. You haven’t been able to communicate. . .
Biden: Well, look how the price has changed. Look how the press has changed. . .
Kimmel: It has changed. Oh, listen, I get it.
Biden: I know you overstand it. You don’t just understand that you overstand it. But here’s the deal. One of the things is that it’s very difficult now to have a, uh, even with notable exceptions, even the really good reporters, they have to get the number of clicks on nightly news. So instead of asking the question, anyway, it’s just everything gets sensationalized in ways that. But I’m convinced we can get through this. We have to get through it. And one of the things, look, I’m. . .
Kimmel: I’m going to take a break and then we’ll talk a little bit more.
Biden: I don’t blame you.
Kimmel: I’m sorry, we have some of those commercials, we have some of those biracial commercials we need to show
Here’s the video:
Biden says there’s a lot of “major things” he’s done, he just hasn’t “been able to communicate it in a way that is, uh, um…”
He then starts rambling about reporters getting “clicks on the nightly news” and they cut to commercial.
