Watch Biden Poke Fun at His Age and Call Out Trump

In a brand new presidential election marketing campaign advert, President Joe Biden stares straight into the digicam and instantly addresses the elephant within the room: his age.

“Look I’m not a younger man, that’s no secret,” the 81-year-old says. “However right here’s the deal, I perceive learn how to get issues executed for the American folks.” 

The advert is the primary in a six-week, $30 million advertising spree by the Biden marketing campaign forward of the November election. The President’s age has become a major talking point—much more so than that of the Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, who’s 77. In 2021, Biden was the oldest President to be sworn in—breaking the document set by Trump earlier than him.

Together with addressing his age, Biden in the remainder of the advert touts his document on well being, the economic system, infrastructure, local weather change, and abortion rights. 

The President says he led the nation by the COVID disaster (the pandemic began underneath Trump’s presidency and the first vaccine was authorized for emergency use in December 2020, after Biden’s election however earlier than his inauguration).

Biden proclaims that the U.S. has the strongest economic system on the planet (it has held the highest spot from 1960 to 2023, according to Forbes). He factors out he signed a legislation that features provisions to lower prescription drug prices and capped insulin costs for seniors with diabetes (that was for sufferers on Medicare, some pharmaceutical firms have additionally followed suit).

He provides that in his presidency, Congress handed a serious infrastructure bill after Trump failed to do so, and likewise mentions passing the “largest legislation in historical past to fight local weather change.”

Lastly, Biden accuses Trump of taking away “the liberty of girls to decide on.” It was the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, which incorporates three conservative justices appointed by Trump, who did that in 2022 by overturning the previous Roe v. Wade ruling. Trump took credit score in 2023, saying on his social media platform, Truth Social: “I used to be capable of kill Roe v. Wade.”

Biden in his advert says: “I’m decided to make Roe v. Wade the legislation of the land once more.” 

“Donald Trump believes the job of the President is to care for Donald Trump. I imagine the job of the President is to struggle for you, the American folks, and that’s what I’m doing,” Biden continues. 

Biden additionally ends the advert poking enjoyable at his age. In an outtake, he quips with amusing: “Look, I’m very younger, energetic, and good-looking. What the hell am I doing this for?”

The Trump marketing campaign has released its own ads, with one in April 2023 portray a fearful image of immigration, wars, violent crime, inflation, and extra underneath “Joe Biden’s America.”

“Put America, the center class, first, and put the globalists, the elitists, and the corrupt of their place. Deliver again satisfaction within the American dream, to let the world know—don’t mess with us,” the Trump marketing campaign advert stated. “Make America nice for us once more.”

One other pro-Trump advert this week, launched by the tremendous PAC MAGA Inc. supporting him, questions Biden’s age and skills, asking if the President can “even survive till 2029.” A Biden marketing campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa told NBC News in an announcement the advert was “a sick and deranged stunt from a broke and struggling marketing campaign.”