Filmmaker Michael Moore equated President Joe Biden’s current reelection campaign to “elder abuse” following his CNN debate performance against Donald Trump and a follow-up interview with George Stephanopoulos.
On the latest episode of his Rumble podcast, Moore said he was “gobsmacked” watching the debate and dismissed reasons like jet lag and a cold from Biden and his team as “malarkey” excuses for Biden’s performance. Amid growing calls for Biden to be replaced at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket, Moore questioned whether he should even remain in the White House until November.
“This is about whether he should serve another four days,” the Fahrenheit 9/11 director said.
Moore cited multiple mistakes made by Biden during the debate and argued his campaign completely flubbed the debate, especially by putting the president through days of debate prep.
If I have to be the only one to stand for Joe Biden — that’s right, you heard me say that — if I have to be the only one to stand up for Joe Biden here, to protect him from the cruelest form of elder abuse I’ve ever been forced to watch, well then that’s what I’ll do. He was in epic distress that Thursday night. Every cognitive default in his mind seemed to be shutting down. If this had been somebody that you truly cared about, loved, embraced, what would you have done? Would you have seriously even let him go out on that stage? Who would send an 81 year old out onto any stage to debate a living monster at nine o’clock at night for a brawl that would not end until 10:42 p.m.? Honestly, have any one of you ever looked at the clock, saw that it was getting near 11 p.m. and said to yourself, ‘I think I’m going to give grams and gramps a call’?