Biden says he's more physically viable than TIME reporters interviewing him: ‘I can take you too’
81-year-old POTUS insists he can do the job ‘better than anybody’
By Brian Flood Fox News
Published June 4, 2024 10:33am EDT
President Biden said he was more physically able to do the job of the presidency than anyone, appearing to joke in a new interview that he could beat up reporters who asked about his advanced age.
Biden sat down with Time magazine at the White House last month for a lengthy interview published on Tuesday. At one point, Biden was asked if he could still do the job "as an 85-year old man" who will be considered "too old to lead" by many Americans if he wins a second term.
"I can do it better than anybody you know. You’re looking at me, I can take you too," Biden told Time, including Washington bureau chief Massimo Calabresi and editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs.
Biden, who was presumably joking, said he never considered not running again because of his age, and offered a message for Americans who are worried about it.
"Watch me. Look, name me a president that’s gotten as much done as I've gotten done in my first three and a half years. When all of you wrote in Time magazine I couldn't get any of it done. When you told me there's no pay, no way, no way he can get a trillion-plus dollar bill done in terms of, to deal with infrastructure, where there's no way he gets $368 billion for dealing with the environment, where there's no way I could get the legislation passed on," Biden said.
"I remember when I was heading to Taiwan, excuse me, to South Korea, to reclaim the chips industry that we had gotten $865 billion in private-sector investment, private-sector investments since I’ve been in," he continued. "Name me a president who’s done that."
Time fact-checked the comment, noting the White House "announced an $866 billion private-sector investment in May, not when Biden went to South Korea in 2022. The funding was also meant for initiatives across clean energy and manufacturing industries, and is not limited to just the chips industry."
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