The prospect of a 2024 presidential rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is already generating buzz. The hypothetical contest could intensify scrutiny over the ages of both former and current presidents.
Two talk show hosts discussed the age factor in the context of a possible second face-off between Trump and Biden.
What Happened: Guests often share their opinions on topics that include politics when speaking with Bill Maher or Joe Rogan. The duo got into a heated discussion during Maher’s appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” over the Labor Day weekend.
Maher and Rogan talked about the possibility of a 2024 presidential election featuring Trump and Biden, which could set a record for the oldest candidates ever to run.
Rogan referred to Biden as “skeletal thin,” something that Maher agreed with. Maher said that Trump looks “more hearty and robust” according to Deadline.
“He’s a city roach. The worse things he eats, the stronger he gets. You cannot kill him,” Maher said about Trump.
Rogan told Maher that Trump was the only president who didn’t noticeably age while in office.
“No, we did,” Maher told Rogan, suggesting that it was the public who noticeably aged during Trump's presidency. “But he’s a criminal, and he’s crazy and he’s stupid. And crazy and stupid are two different things.”
Maher went on to share examples of ways Trump was crazy and stupid.
“Stupid is ‘Frederik Douglass is alive’ or ‘The stealth bomber is literally invisible.’ Crazy is it’s important that the crowd at my inauguration was the biggest ever, and I’m going to make an issue of this for the first two weeks of my presidency despite photographic evidence of the contrary. Or I’m going to steal these documents, and I’m going put them next to the toilet at Mar-A-Lago, and I’m going to fight you to take them back. Or not conceding the election,” Maher said, according to Deadline
Rogan brought up the legal challenges that Trump is facing in connection to the 2020 election, eliciting additional comments from Maher.
“He tried every possible way of stealing this election. He tried to do it through the courts. He tried to do it through the legislators. He tried to do it through intimidating Mike Pence. He tried to do it through the Justice Department,” Maher said, adding that Trump has still not conceded the election.
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Why It’s Important: Rogan and Maher argued back and forth during the interview about which president, Trump or Biden, was worse.
“You can’t really believe this guy is not worse than Joe Biden. I agree – Joe Biden is not a great president. And the Hunter Biden stuff is a stinky scandal that stinks to the high heavens. But if you think that it, in any way, compares to what Trump tried to do, then you just cannot tell unlike things apart,” Maher told Rogan.
Rogan asked Maher if Trump really thinks that the election was stolen.
“Who gives a f***? It doesn’t matter… all the people around him told him he lost,” Maher added.
Maher cited a quote from Trump, stating that the former president didn't want people to know he had lost the election.
“He’s a clinical case of malignant narcissism. It’s not just a quirk. It’s actually in the big book of crazy. It affects everything he thinks and does.”
Maher said Biden is not his first choice in the 2024 presidential election or his hundredth choice.
“But the other guy (Trump) is a crazy stupid criminal.”
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