Former First Lady Jill Biden rescued her husband, Joe Biden, during their latest interview on The View.
During the interview, a View co-host asked Joe Biden, “Since you left office, a number of books have come out that claim there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities.”
Joe began to answer the question, but then started to ramble.
During his rambling speech, he suddenly stated, “I’ve spoken enough,” which has led some viewers to believe Jill Biden nudged him under the table.
After remarking that he had spoken enough, Jill spoke up and defended her husband.
Watch the moment it went down here:
The View: “Since you left office, a number of books have come out that claim there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities.”
Biden: *rambles*
Jill Biden: “They didn’t see how hard Joe worked. He’d get up and put in a full day. It was nonstop.” pic.twitter.com/ARKMgRwts1
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 8, 2025
Former Pres. Biden responds to reports questioning his cognitive abilities while in office, saying on #TheView, “They are wrong.”
“The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,” former first lady Jill Biden added. “If you look at things today, give me Joe… pic.twitter.com/JndjhBmDMf
— The View (@TheView) May 8, 2025
Check out what The Daily Mail reported:
Jill Biden appeared to give her former president husband Joe a secret signal on The View after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked a very risky question.
Biden, 82, was asked about Democrat insiders saying he’d suffered a sharp cognitive decline during his final year in office and began answering the question.
But after a few moments of relatively fluid speech the former president suddenly stopped and said: ‘I’ve spoken enough.’
Jill, who was sat beside her husband, picked up the answer without a beat, sparking theories she may have nudged him or kicked him under the table to shut him up.
The former first lady has long been accused of hiding her ailing husband away during his doomed 2024 presidential campaign and telling him not to stand down despite growing outrage over his clear mental decline.
But she angrily denied ‘sequestering’ him during Thursday’s live appearance on the ABC show.
Meanwhile, Biden was also seen sporting a mysterious band aid on his left hand.
The president was previously seen with a bruise on the same hand, sparking theories about whether he had undergone some kind of infusion for the benefit of his health.
When he was asked the question on his mental health, Biden awkwardly cut himself off mid-answer as he gave a halting and mumbling performance on the show.
Truly amazing stuff here: Joe Biden is asked about the books that have been written about his cognitive decline. He spends one minute struggling to answer the question while going on tangents about random things before handing it off to his wife who says he was perfectly fine lol pic.twitter.com/vUjG2dwe0X
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 8, 2025
Per ABC New York:
Former President Joe Biden, on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, took responsibility for President Donald Trump’s historic return to the White House but vigorously pushed back on claims of cognitive decline in his final year in office.
“He’s had the worst 100 days any president’s ever had,” Biden said of his Oval Office successor.
Biden maintained he would have beaten Trump had he stayed in the race, but, when asked, said he accepted some blame for the election outcome because of voter concerns about border security and the cost of living during his tenure.
“I do, because, look, I was in charge and he won. So, you know, I take responsibility,” the former president said.
Though Biden went on to criticize Trump’s role in bringing down a bipartisan border bill and to tout the state of the economy at the end of his term, including investments made in infrastructure and health care that he said would boost the country’s future.