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At 12:01 p.m. Eastern time Monday, one of the most despicable human beings ever to inhabit the White House finally became a private citizen.

Joe Biden, the virtual president who took office through electoral fraud, gives way to President Donald Trump after more than five decades of alleged public service in Washington. Biden leaves with some of the worst approval rates of any president in modern American history, in terms of both job performance and personal favorability.

Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator in Britain, called the now-former chief executive a “gormless wazzock,” “odious,” “deluded” “quite malevolent” and “an ineffectually devious, senile halfwit.” In expressing his opinion about Trump, Jamie Mannina — the former Pentagon consultant whom O’Keefe Media Group exposed, as FrontPage Magazine reported — inadvertently described Biden perfectly.

“He’s a sociopathic narcissist,” Mannina said, “who is only interested in advancing his name, his wealth and his fame.”

Underneath Biden’s facade of smarmy bonhomie that typifies the old-fashioned machine politician lies a fundamental malevolence that best expresses itself in dealings with ordinary Americans — the kind of people Biden claims to support but, in fact, despises.

“I’m Not Working For You!”

The now-former chief executive demonstrated that malevolence in public during the 2020 presidential primaries. That March, as Biden was visiting an auto plant in Michigan, a union worker named Jerry Wayne who owns firearms accused Biden of “actively trying to end the Second Amendment,” he said.

“You’re full of (excrement),” replied Biden, displaying the exquisite debating skills he learned in college.

In the angry argument that ensued, Biden told Wayne, “Don’t try me pal.” When Wayne responded, “You’re working for me, man,” Biden replied, “I’m not working for you! Don’t be such a horse’s (posterior)!”

“He kind of went off the deep end,” Wayne told Fox News. “I thought I was pretty articulate and respectful. I didn’t try to raise any feathers. I just did this just because I had a question that needed to be answered. I think the rest of America wants that question to be answered, as well.”

“Listen, Fat, Here’s The Deal.” 

That January in Iowa, Biden violated the personal space of Ed Fallon, a former state legislator who said he would vote for the former vice president in the general election but not in that state’s caucuses. During their conversation, Biden “presses on Fallon’s chest, pokes him with a finger and finally grabs his jacket with two hands,” said a reporter for Des Moines’ KCCI-TV.

“It was not an appropriate interaction with anybody,” Fallon said. “If I had done that to him, security would have been all over me.”

In another incident in Iowa, a retired farmer, who said he would not vote for Trump, accused Biden of selling access to the White House while vice president by arranging for his son Hunter to become a board member with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, despite the fact that Hunter had no experience in the field.

“You’re a damn liar, man,” the candidate replied before insulting the man’s weight.

“I’m not sedentary,” Biden said. “I get up. You want to check my shape? Let’s do push-ups together, man. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you want to do.”

The former senator from Delaware said neither he nor his son did anything wrong before adding, “Look, fat, here’s the deal.” The farmer cut him off and replied, “It looks like you don’t have any more backbone than Trump.”

But in October 2020, the New York Post reported that Hunter Biden introduced his father to Vadym Pozharskyi, one of Burisma’s major advisors, in 2015. A year earlier, Pozharskyi asked the younger Biden if he could use his influence to help the company. Last August, ABC reported that Hunter Biden tried to elicit support from the United States’ ambassador to Italy in 2016 to broker an energy deal between Burisma and Tuscany.

As vice president at the time, Joe Biden had to know about such maneuvers.

“You’re a Lying, Dog-Faced Pony Soldier”

Following the Iowa caucuses, where Biden finished fourth, he spoke at Mercer University in New Hampshire before that state’s primary. A 21-year-old student, Madison Moore, asked him to explain his poor performance in Iowa and to offer reasons why he can win the general election.

“You ever been to a caucus?” Biden asked Moore, who nodded. “No, you haven’t,” Biden replied. “You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier.”

Proving that he meant the comment as an insult, Biden called the Republicans “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers,” after his disastrous debate with Trump in June.

“The immediate response was to question in somewhat of an aggressive tone whether I had been to a caucus before,” Moore said about Biden. “Being intimidated by the vice president, I nodded ‘yes.’ I have not, and I told people it was a response I gave without thinking.”

The experience humiliated her.

“He abused a very lop-sided power dynamic to bully and intimidate me,” Moore said. “I left in tears because I was afraid the media would frame me as some liar because the vice president just called me a liar on national TV. I was afraid of getting cancelled.

“He really showed his true colors.”

In previous election cycles, such abusive public behavior toward voters would destroy any political campaign, let alone one for the presidency. Perhaps Biden believed he could get away with it because he knew that on Election Day, he would receive more than 81 million votes — an unprecedented total, with many coming in the middle of the night — to defeat Trump.

Perhaps Biden believed he could get away with it because he knew that compliant, lazy reporters and commentators were covering his campaign.

“Maybe more embarrassing are the number of takes I saw from very smart people who are getting paid lots of money to do this for a living,” The Hill’s Krystal Ball said on its podcast, “Rising,” while discussing Biden’s confrontation with Wayne. “They were like, ‘That was Joe Biden’s best moment on the trail.’ Literally, I’m like, ‘What is wrong with you people?'”

Yet once he arrived at the White House, Biden’s condescending anger targeted those same people.

Beat the Press

In January 2022, a young, nervous reporter questioned Biden’s public commitment to civility after comparing opponents of election reform bills to white segregationists. While defending himself, Biden raised his voice and attacked the reporter’s intelligence.

“That is an interesting reading of English,” Biden said. “I assume you got into journalism because you like to write.”

Ironically, as a senator, Biden worked with former segregationists against school busing in the 1970s.

On Jan. 15, during a press conference announcing the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Biden tried to take credit for the deal that Trump eventually concluded. When asked who should receive the ultimate credit, Biden was not amused.

“Is that a joke?” Biden asked with a wry smile. When told it was not, Biden just walked away.

Ten days earlier, Biden went on an angry tangent after a reporter asked him if Trump threatened democracy.

“I might be the oldest president,” he told reporters, “but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole (God-forsaken) life!”

Even Biden’s attempts to use humor to commiserate with those in distress sound so tone deaf as to be insensitive, as one example Jan. 9 proved.

As Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were discussing federal responses to the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles – and threatened Harris’ home – the chief executive embarrassed himself.

“Madame Vice President,” Biden said as he briefly placed his hand on Harris’ left forearm, “I know you’re directly affected so you fire away.”

Harris just looked at Biden, who replied after an awkward pause, “no pun intended.”

“Indeed,” Harris responded with a raised eyebrow and relief in her voice.

Harris, at that moment, was comparatively fortunate. In 2023, Axios published an article describing how Biden routinely abuses and curses at his staff. Jeff Connaughton, a former Biden aide, called him an “egomaniacal autocrat … determined to manage his staff through fear.”

Many might believe Biden’s abusive behavior reflects his cognitive decline. But arrogant narcissism needs no such excuse, as Connaughton suggested. Here’s what an alert, energetic Biden said to the same retired farmer he mocked in Iowa.

“Look, the reason I’m running is because I’ve been around a long time,” Biden said. “I know more than most people know and I can get things done.”

Should it surprise anybody that such a malignant narcissist would blatantly disregard his fellow citizens in crafting or supporting his policies?

It remains debatable how many Americans will genuinely miss Old Joe as president.