Jill Biden is making headlines this week, and once again the reason involves her husband’s long-documented cognitive decline.
Specifically, she recently admitted that she was afraid the then-president was having a stroke during his disastrous performance on the debate stage against President Donald Trump two years ago.
And the fact that she has been covering for him ever since wasn’t lost on critics across the political spectrum, including “Breakfast Club” co-host Charlamagne Tha God.
Fox News provided this report:
One telling contradiction between how Jill Biden now says she felt that night and the public face she presented afterward was how she praised Biden for his performance at a post-debate event.
“Not right now,” Charlamagne said wearily, noting numerous concerns he, his staff, and Americans in general are facing, arguing of such revelations, “It’s just too much going on right now for you to be confirming what so many of us already knew and said, but got crucified for it.”
Charlamagne went on to clarify that this ultimately is not about aging or health scares, but rather, “This is about honesty, and Jill Biden and Democrats weren’t honest, and that’s one of the main reasons we are currently in the situation we are in right now.”
This, he said, was one of many areas where Biden failed to make the most of his term to protect American democracy, such as eliminating the filibuster, expanding the Supreme Court, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and passing the Freedom to Vote Act. “Those were the things that needed to be done to protect democracy,” he said.
“Add the lies sold to the American people about President Biden to that list, alright?” he said.
“This is why Americans have trust issues with politicians. OK? You tell us we don’t feel what we feel, and we don’t see what we see,” he said. “Once again, this wasn’t about Biden being old, OK? It wasn’t even about this debate. It was a trust issue. All right? You dismissed voters’ concerns about Biden’s age and health for years instead of addressing them honestly.”
And he was hardly alone in criticizing Jill Biden’s newfound transparency:
You can't make this shit up I swear… "he hasn't had an episode like that then and since" in Jill's words. Hmm I wonder why??? I guess that's bound to happen when you get your ass handed to you about your lies and failures as a sitting President. Spare me Jill..
— slynne80 (@slynne80) May 28, 2026
If you ever are worried your husband is having a stroke take him to Waffle House.
Dr. Jill Biden pic.twitter.com/Lwljsetxo1
— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) May 28, 2026
So let me get this right, @DrBiden thought that @JoeBiden was having a STROKE?? yet she didn't stop the debate get medical help or take him to a hospital. Then took him to a post-Debate Watch Party? Yeah not buying any of this pic.twitter.com/Ffly5HdJBu
— Matty Cordasco (@MattyDasco) May 28, 2026
President Trump also got in on the action, as The Hill reported:
“She said that she thought he was having a ‘stroke,’ and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “The only thing she failed to mention was how well I was doing prior to his near total collapse.”
“In other words, as many have asked, did my strong performance in that debate cause him to plain and simple ‘choke,’ leading to his ignominious defeat, or were other reasons the cause?” the president wrote in his post. “Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!”
In a clip from an interview with CBS News released Wednesday, Jill Biden said she was “horrified” on the night of the debate as she watched her husband on stage in Atlanta.
“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since, never,” she said. “I mean, as I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my god, he’s having a stroke.’”
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