Trump on Biden in 2024: “I Don’t Think He’s Going to Run”

BUCK: Mr. President, before we talk to you about your possible political aspirations for the future and what you’re planning for the country, I want to ask you to look across the table for a moment at the Democrats. Clay and I have an ongoing discussion on the show about who is really going to be the standard-bearer for them the next time around? It feels like Joe Biden…

You look at the polls, you see him on TV, there’s a recognition this is a guy who, to say he’s lost a step I think is kind, putting it gently. Clay and I have talked about possible other contenders stepping in for him, maybe the vice president, maybe somebody else, even. What do you think…? Who do you think will be the Democrat nominee or the Democrat standard-bearer the next time around? Is Joe Biden gonna run again or not?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: So, I don’t think so. I’m watching what you’re watching, and I just don’t think so. I hope he does great for the country. I think it’s too late because I don’t think he can do great for the country. There’s been so much damage done that I think if he turned out to be George Washington and Abraham Lincoln combined, I think the net result is so bad, I just don’t think he can do it.

It’s so far behind, what they’ve done on energy, what they’ve done at the border, what they’ve done… The destruction to this country has been so massive. I don’t think he’s going to run, or I don’t think he’s — you know, he could run and maybe somebody would run against him, and that’s very rare, that something like that would happen. She doesn’t seem to be very popular in the polls. You know, there was the polls of me against him, and I’m leading by a lot.

CLAY: Yes.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: But I was leading. I thought I, you know, was leading a lot the day of the election, too, right. I was. But you gotta be very careful with the election. You’re gotta make sure the vote count is honest. So, I don’t see him running. I see her running.

CLAY: Meaning Kamala.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah.

BUCK: ‘Cause Hillary’s —

CLAY: That’s the other one.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I guess you can. You can include her in the she category, right. It’s possible. I don’t see Kamala. She started off at 10 or 11 and she was hot, and by the time they went like four or five weeks she was down to nothing. That’s why it was such an unusual choice, and there was nobody meaner to Joe Biden than her. She called him everything.

CLAY: No doubt.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: She was calling him names that were horrible. So I said nobody could choose her, and they chose her. But, you know, she was going to reverse. Usually, you choose somebody that starts off at 1 and ends up at 15 or 20, you know, going like a rocket ship up. So, they didn’t… So, I think she’s gonna certainly put a play in. It’s possible, but I watched Hillary the other day. I just don’t know if she has the energy. I don’t know that she has the energy. I watched her. Look, we had questions when she fell into the car.

CLAY: Yes.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: When her shoes fell off, when she couldn’t lift her foot up in, she couldn’t walk, she kept falling down going into the airplanes. Remember a lot of famous pictures — and then people put the golf ball and the baseball and all that stuff in those pictures. You remember, they blamed me for it. It wasn’t me.

CLAY: Oh, yeah, right.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: They blamed me for it. But I don’t see it. But she’s a very devious person. All you have to do is take a look at Durham report