BUCK: Biden just gave a press conference. There were some things he said that are not surprising at all, but he was asked a question by a German journalist. At this point in time, can we not have…? You know, Biden can say, I’m here to talk about NATO. I’m not here to take any cheap shots at Trump or Republicans. But no. Grandpa Biden had some other thoughts.
BUCK: Little cheap shot against Trump at the end there. Bringing up the insurrection. Joe Biden, not a competent guy, and not a nice guy, Clay.
CLAY: Also, yeah, taking a shot, but that’s another indication, because we’re talking a lot about whether Trump is going to run. That’s a big debate. That’s a big topic of discussion. Nobody is really talking after the midterms, early in 2023, Joe Biden is going to have a determination about whether or not he’s going to run — and, remember, he will be 82 years old. I find it crazy to believe that he’s going to run.
But that statement that he made there while taking a shot at Trump is suggestive that he wants another rematch against Donald Trump and that he’s planning on running, at the age of 82. And remember, Buck, he’s going to have to have made this decision by this time next year. He can’t…? I don’t think he can hold off, everybody in the Democratic Party who otherwise would be champing at the bit, because they want to go ahead and announce their candidacy.
BUCK: I still think that their move will be — and this is going to be an ongoing conversation. We will be talking about this in a year and for many months in between. I think the plan will be to have Biden run again, and then have him step down, because he’ll be in his early ’80s and it will be obvious to everybody that this is elder abuse on an unthinkable, political scale.
CLAY: It’s such a fascinating question, Buck. I don’t think that he can physically campaign, right? They got lucky with covid being able to put him in a basement and not have to put him on a plane and travel him around the country. How is he going to be able to run a presidential election? The amount of… You know this. You travel. We’re relatively young and when you’re hopping on a plane and flying from one side of the country to the other and you’re performing and there’s all these other events, it weighs on younger people. How in the world is 82-year-old Joe Biden going to be crisscrossing the country, making an argument for his reelection? I just… I don’t know that he’s physically capable of being able to do that.
CLAY: Two years, now.
BUCK: They had been treated worse than some Al-Qaeda detainees.
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: And some of the people that have been treated that way weren’t even violent, but that’s another conversation which we will continue to have here, by the way. But, you know, this is just going to show you, Clay, they’re going to have to force people to talk about the insurrection. They’re going to have to bring these things back to the old well of, “Trump is Putin’s puppet,” which will be a much tougher sell now than it was before.
But what else have they got, man? I mean, this is what we keep coming back to. What are they going to point to? All the polling shows Americans saying, “I’m worse off. All these decisions seem arbitrary, and many of them seem counterproductive from the Biden regime. It’s time for a change.” Change, in this case, not good for the Democrats.
CLAY: I also would point out something significant there which is, there was a long precedent of not attacking domestic political adversaries, while you’re overseas. Because it makes you look small. If you’re trying to look like the leader of the freest country in the world, then going after an adversary who is in domestic politics like Biden did during that discussion doesn’t in any way embolden allies to believe that you are strong. I mean, Biden is a weak man. Physically. I think mentally. I think intellectually. Politically. All of those things are true, and having him overseas just magnifies that weakness. Even the way he walks, Buck! The way he walks.
BUCK: He looks like a feeble old man, Clay!
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Let’s be honest. He looks to the world — and he’s the president, folks. This stuff matters. It looks like we have a feeble old man running the country, and that’s not good, especially in the middle of a war. People will point out there was a time when it was different. We didn’t have TV cameras. These optics didn’t make a difference. Even when Biden is up there giving a speech, you’re looking at this, like, at what point is he going to say, “Where is the apple sauce? I want to feed the ducks with some breadcrumbs?”
CLAY: And his eyes, man. It just looks like there’s nobody home. You know how you can tell when you’re talking to somebody whether their eyes are physically focused, like just whether there’s a vitality behind the eyes. It doesn’t look like there’s anything there. It’s probably an analogy that hasn’t been made very often. I got to meet Britney Spears.
BUCK: Really!
CLAY: Yeah, out in Vegas.
BUCK: I was a huge fan —
CLAY: Join the club.
BUCK: — back in 1996, 1997, I guess. I was a huge Britney Spears fan.
BUCK: Really?
CLAY: Just like, there was no ability to… The eyes were just out, man, and I look at Biden, and when I see his eyes, it just looks like he’s not there, right? You can tell if somebody is not there. It was… Well, I was disappointed. It was nice to be able to meet Britney Spears. I would have liked to have met her in ’98 or ’99 or 2001 or whatever it was. But, yeah. Concert was pretty good, at least, by the way.
BUCK: Yeah. Hey. You know, Britney is great.
CLAY: I was one of the few straight men in that concert that night without a woman. I was with another straight man. There’s not a lot of us.
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