Former aides to Joe Biden and other Democratic flacks were aghast Friday following a report that the 46th president recently met with party bosses to offer to put himself back in the spotlight and boost the ailing party’s image and fundraising. Biden, 82, and wife Jill sat down with newly elected Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin last month to pitch themselves for a revamped campaigning effort, according to NBC News.
Recent public polling shows Democrats’ support has cratered, with less than one-third of Americans approving of the party’s performance since President Trump returned to the White House Jan. 20. “The Bidens are still living in an alternative universe that revolves only around them,” a onetime senior White House adviser told The Post in response to the NBC report. “Their irresponsibility, family ego and selfishness put the Democratic Party in this position in the first place … The Biden family — and the disconnected reality that they and their ineffective little circle live in — is responsible for the Trump sequel and the wilderness the Democratic Party finds itself in today,” this person said.
Another person told the New York Post: “Why? That is my first question. They can’t raise money either way. I think donors would be more inclined to donate if they [the Bidens] were not relevant.” A third Biden alum told The Post: “Joe Biden should enjoy retirement at the beach in Rehoboth. No voter wants to hear from him. He is delusional and arrogant to think that he can be a value add to the Democratic Party. We need to move on from the era of Joe Biden and embrace new, younger leadership.”
The ridicule also came from congressional Democrats, who were left without control of either chamber following the November 5 landslide defeat of then–Vice President Kamala Harris, who entered the race after President Biden announced on July 21 that he would not seek a second term. “Why the f–k would anyone listen to what Joe Biden has to say?” gasped one congressional Democratic source. “He should stay in retirement with his pardoned family and keep his mouth shut.”
“The best thing Biden could do for the DNC is offer [DNC vice chair] David Hogg a high-paying role at his foundation,” a congressional Democratic aide said snarkily, while a former Democratic aide said, ““Is this serious? I mean, it has to be a joke. This is an ‘SNL’ skit.”
It remains unclear how the former president plans to monetize his post-White House years, though he recently signed with the talent agency Creative Artists Agency—the same firm he previously partnered with to promote his memoir Promise Me, Dad after leaving the vice presidency in 2017, The Post noted.
Meanwhile, Biden’s son Hunter and brother James Biden have faced scrutiny for earning millions through their connections to the family’s political influence, securing lucrative deals with associates in China, Ukraine, and other countries where U.S. policy was at times shaped by their relative. Hunter also launched an amateur art career after his father became president—a move widely seen as an attempt to further capitalize on Joe Biden’s position. However, in a recent court filing, he revealed he has struggled to make sales in recent months.
“These people drank so much of their own Kool-Aid that they believed — and still seemingly believe — that an 82-year-old man with a 38% approval rating on a good day, who can’t sit down for a simple traditional 10-minute pre-Super Bowl interview, was the answer for Democrats in 2024 and now this same group thinks the Bidens are the answer for Democrats now?” the ex-senior White House adviser ranted to The Post.
“The fact that they continue to surround themselves with the same cast of clowns who delivered them nothing but the most devastating humiliation in modern political history — a president’s own power taken away by his own party — is all you need to know about them. They’ve learned nothing and they are the absolutely last and worst remedy for what ails the party in 2025 and 2026,” the person added.