Former ESPN host Sage Steele told Bill Maher Sunday that when she interviewed Joe Biden in 2021 before opening season for Major League Baseball, it was “the saddest thing” because “he couldn’t finish his sentences.”
Biden didn’t even know why he was doing the interview until an aide told him it was for ESPN.
Here’s more via New York Post:
Steele told the comedian that she interviewed Biden in March 2021 for a pre-recorded segment ahead of MLB’s Opening Day that year.
“It was satellite, it wasn’t in person,” she explained, noting that they were having technical issues and she had to stall the chief executive as they waited for the issues to be resolved.
“So I had to, like, BS. I had to chitchat, waiting for us to start rolling.”
Steele said she could not see the president as his staffers kept a lens cover over the camera “until the last second, but you can hear and we’re chitchatting.
“So I can hear him and he goes, ‘What is this for? Wait — what’s her name?’” Steele recounted, as Maher started laughing.
“I was going, ‘Oh my God!’ And then [an aide] said, ‘SportsCenter, ESPN.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, OK.’”
At that point, the president started to tell her about his own football career. In high school, Biden was a standout halfback and wide receiver. He also briefly played football as a freshman at the University of Delaware.
“And so he started to tell football stories of his greatness,” Steele recounted, noting she still could not see him.
“He goes, ‘I have the best hands.’ What do you say to that?” Steele asked.
“His voice just trailed off…and then he went silent, and he goes…’Uh, never mind.'”
“And here’s the saddest thing — his voice just trailed off. He said, ‘I was good,’ and then he went silent, and he goes …, ‘Uh, never mind.’
“I thought it was so sad because I realized that’s why he was in the basement during the whole election cycle — because even then he couldn’t finish his sentences, he struggled.”
“So forget about politics. I don’t care, I didn’t vote for him,” she revealed. “However, that made me sad.”
Earlier in the discussion with Maher, Steele said she thinks Biden is a “terrible president.
“However, forget that — the human aspect of what we’re witnessing right now with him, to me, is heartbreaking. And it’s inexcusable by the family when you knew during the election.”
Steele’s podcast appearance came just days after Maher told Biden he should drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
I know this is the furthest thing from a surprise, considering how we’ve heard Biden time and time again go silent and then say “Uh, never mind”. That happens nearly every day.
And you can be sure the left knows this as well as we do, even if they don’t want to admit it. Which is probably why they’ll try and replace him at the DNC.