Former Biden admin official knocks ex-president's comeback speech
Former special assistant to Biden, Michael LaRosa and 'Twin Cities News Talk' host Jon Justice join 'The Ingraham Angle' to discuss Biden's first public speech since his departure from office.
Former Obama aide Tommy Vietor has no interest in hearing from former President Joe Biden as more alleged details emerge about how his administration hid his decline.
Biden took shots at the Trump administration's Social Security policies in his first major speech since leaving the White House on Tuesday evening. Biden's keynote address, which ran less than an hour, overwhelmingly focused on his accomplishments with Social Security when he was president and criticized his successor.
Vietor and Brian Tyler Cohen were not impressed in a Thursday video of "Pod Save America," as Mediaite observed.
"Listen, I’m grateful to Joe Biden for the things he did, for his decades of service. I don’t want to hear him giving speeches right now. I’m sorry, I know that’s s----y. I know that’s petty. He doesn’t owe me anything. My opinion doesn’t matter here. I don’t want to hear — I’m very mad at Joe Biden," Vietor said, reacting to the former president’s speech. "So I’ve been reading Jake Tapper’s book about the Biden administration and the steps taken to kind of hide his decline. I can’t get into the details, it’s still embargoed, but it is enraging."
"Pod Save America" host and former Obama official Tommy Vietor expresses his lack of interest in hearing from former President Biden. (Pod Save America YouTube channel)
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Cohen touted numerous legislative accomplishments of Biden’s presidency, but ultimately agreed he is not the right man for the moment.
"We have a gerontocracy problem in our party," Cohen said. "And so the reality is that the last thing we should be doing right now is giving the biggest platforms to the people who really are holding back the party more broadly in a moment where we are desperate for and desperately need generational change."
Former U.S. President Joe Biden gestures during a speech at the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled conference in Chicago, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Vietor agreed on the need for generational change, arguing the party needs to look "forward, not backwards."
"We don’t want to talk about his administration right now," he said. "People are pissed, they’re mad about inflation. Democrats are mad at the administration for how it went for Kamala Harris. I get that he’s giving speeches, it’s probably paying the bills, but I don’t wanna hear them."
The alleged cover-up of former President Biden's decline has turned many of his former allies against him and his defenders. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Emma Colton and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
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