First, you need to know that Joe is all about Joe. Everything else is in a distant second place.
Joe is just a bitter, nasty, selfish, senile old man who sees events through a mind clouded by amyloid plaques and tau tangles.
Old yeller: Biden’s private fury:
In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he’s prone to yelling.
•Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.
The president’s admonitions include: “God dammit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!,” “Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!” and “Get the f**k out of here!” — according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts.
Why it matters: The private eruptions paint a more complicated picture of Biden as a manager and president than his carefully cultivated image as a kindly uncle who loves Aviator sunglasses and ice cream.
Some Biden aides think the president would be better off occasionally displaying his temper in public as a way to assuage voter concerns that the 80-year-old president is disengaged and too old for the office.
Zoom in: Senior and lower-level aides alike can be in Biden’s line of fire. “No one is safe,” said one administration official.
“There’s no question that the Biden temper is for real. It’s every bit as bad as Bill Clinton’s,” said Chris Whipple, author of “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House.”
Biden’s temper comes in the form of angry interrogations rather than erratic tantrums.
He’ll grill aides on topics until it’s clear they don’t know the answer to a question — a routine that some see as meticulous, and others call “stump the chump” or “stump the dummy.”
In January 2022, he was caught on a hot mic calling Fox News’ Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.”
Jeff Connaughton, a former Biden campaign and Senate aide wrote about Biden’s temper in his 2012 book on Washington corruption, “The Payoff: Why Wall Street Wins.”
Connaughton wrote that as a senator, Biden was an “egomaniacal autocrat … determined to manage his staff through fear.”
He told of a time during the 2008 presidential campaign when Joe kicked a 23-year-old fundraising staffer out of the car because he suggested they do more fundraising.
“Okay, senator, time to do some fundraising calls,” the aide said. Biden responded by looking at him and snapping: “Get the f**k out of the car.”
Second, Joe will not share the limelight with anyone. That is why he marginalized Kamala Harris to the point of obscurity, making her the least visible vice-president in modern history.
If he had given her even a modicum of authority and airtime, she might well have been a more visible, more acceptable candidate to replace Joe. But remember, Joe is all about Joe.
“Fuck the democratic party, fuck the American people, I want to be president again and that trumps all other consideration. Now, get the fuck out of here.”