Late-night comedians aren’t Biden their tongues.
“The Tonight Present” host Jimmy Fallon joked about Joe Biden probably resigning amid the US president’s plummeting approval scores throughout the opening monologue of his Monday night time episode.
“I learn that Dr. Fauci plans to retire by the top of President Biden’s time period,” mentioned Fallon, 47, earlier than quipping: “Yep, then everybody turned to Biden like, ‘Is there something you’d prefer to announce too?'”
The joke coincides with a latest ballot that discovered practically two-thirds of Democratic voters (64%) need the occasion to select a unique candidate for the 2024 presidential race, whereas greater than three-quarters of People (77%) say the nation is shifting within the flawed path. In the meantime, 13% say that the US is heading in the right direction, the fewest because the depths of the Nice Recession greater than a decade in the past.
Nonetheless, Biden, who's the nation’s oldest-ever president at 79, has repeatedly mentioned he intends to run for reelection and even snapped at a reporter final week for suggesting that his occasion needs him out after only one time period.
Elsewhere in his monologue, Fallon lampooned the Commander in Chief’s controversial fist bump greeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman throughout final week’s assembly.
“Biden mentioned that wasn’t a fist bump, that was me making an attempt to punch him as arduous as I may,” the comedian quipped, lampooning Biden’s superior age. He analogized the gesture to “greeting [Russian President Vladimir] Putin with a chest bump and a bro hug.”
The US had beforehand accused the Arabian chief of ordering the homicide of Washington Submit columnist Jamal Khashoggi — allegations the crown prince has reportedly denied.
Fallon isn’t the primary late-night host to take potshots at Biden’s seemingly chummy handshake. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert additionally criticized the fist bump with the latter host quipping:
“It was vital that Biden put lots of thought into how he would greet MBS… Increase go the ethics.”
The fist bump has been seen as one in every of a lot of Biden’s perceived gaffes in latest months, with the latest coming after he mentioned he had most cancers throughout a Wednesday handle. The White Home press workplace clarified that Biden was referring to pores and skin most cancers remedy that he had earlier than taking workplace final 12 months.
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