First he took Corrupt Joe's wife, then he took his office.
Joe Biden is president of the United States for 42 more days. But within the Democratic Party, on Capitol Hill -- and even within his own administration -- it feels like he left the Oval Office weeks ago.
Biden has effectively disappeared from the radar in the wake of Democrats' bruising electoral loss. Since Nov. 5, he's largely stuck to prepared remarks, avoided unscripted public appearances or press questions and opted to sit out the raging debate over Donald Trump's victory, policy conversations in Congress and the Democratic Party's future.
So pretty much like his entire fake presidency.
"He's been so cavalier and selfish about how he approaches the final weeks of the job," said a former White House official.
Across nearly two weeks abroad since the election, Biden spoke just seven words to the media traveling with him. He has yet to schedule a post-election press conference, as Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush did when they were on their way out of office. He went to the Rose Garden to publicly praise a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and spoke to the press Sunday about Bashar Al-Assad fleeing Syria, but otherwise his post-election domestic schedule has been filled with events such as honoring the 2024 NBA champions, thanking longtime supporters at a South Lawn dinner and participating in a Friendsgiving event.
Biden's low profile since the election has contributed to the sense of rudderlessness that's taken hold across swaths of Washington, as lawmakers, aides and party officials brace for Trump's return to power and seek a new direction and vision ahead of the midterms and 2028.
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"There is no leadership coming from the White House," one Democrat close to senior lawmakers stated bluntly. "There is a total vacuum."
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[T]he void at the top has alarmed Democratic officials who worry and the country is heading toward next year without a concrete plan for combating Trump -- or even tangible motivation to put up much of a fight. POLITICO spoke to almost two dozen party officials, lawmakers, current and former White House aides and other Democratic staffers for this story, some of whom were granted anonymity in order to offer their candid assessment.
"Elections have consequences -- It's a new sheriff in town," Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said.
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"In conversations that I'm having, they don't even mention the president. It's kind of sad," said the Democrat close to senior lawmakers. "It feels like Trump is president already."
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"Democrats in Washington just want to get him and the people around him out the door," said the former White House official. "All he's done in the last year has hurt the party every step of the way."
The article speculates about the reasons for Biden's vegetative state. They fail to grasp that his vegetative state might be caused by the fact that he's actually a vegetable.
The reasons for Biden doing what he did for four years -- hiding in a basement, allowing his atrocious wife and vile Obama staffers illegally run the government -- are, they figure:
1, Biden knows that people don't want to hear from him. True enough.
2, Biden is still angry the party knifed him in the back and feels no obligation to put himself out for the sake of his betrayers.
3, Biden's entire 2020 candidacy and his entire argument for his 2024 re-election was how terrible it was that Trump didn't accept the results of the rigged election, so he feels some obligation to behave as he promised to do and deliver a smooth transition. If he is too overt in his attempts to sabotage Trump, then he'll look like he's as big a conscienceless liar as we already know he is.