Comedian Rosie O’Donnell joins the growing crowd of Democrats encouraging President Biden to drop out of his 2024 reelection efforts amidst Hunter Biden leaving a swanky Malibu, California restaurant.
The 54-year-old first son was seen leaving celeb-haunt Nobu Thursday evening just moments before President Joe Biden gave his remarks during the NATO summit.
The president’s appearance at the summit and subsequent press conference coincided with an effort by the 81-year-old to rehabilitate his image publicly after a disappointing debate performance that has some Democratic donors, like O’Donnell, looking elsewhere.
“Joe Biden- thank u for all u have give our country – time to pass the torch – now- and for God’s sake Democrats, GET IT TOGETHER b4 it’s too late,” O’Donnell wrote in an Instagram post, with an image of California Governor Gavin Newsom, following the presidential debate.
During the interview O’Donnell was asked point blank if she thought Biden “was up to running” and she responded: “I believe we will have a better chance to defeat Trump with another candidate.”
One other user chimed in to say the debate wasn’t a demand for him to be replaced, but she replied: “It’s time.”
As O’Donnell steps up and publicly calls on President Biden to resign, an increasing number of people are joining celebrities in asking the elderly president to give way.
Biden has been facing increasing pressure from long-time allies, such as author Stephen King and actor George Clooney, to quit. “Joe Biden has been a fine president, but it’s time for him – in the interests of the America he so clearly loves – to announce he will not run for re-election,” King wrote on X.
“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced,” Clooney wrote.
“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
However, Biden has resisted calls to step aside and said he will continue in the campaign. But, the President’s public image only seems to be deteriorating.
Most recently, Biden mistakenly referred to the Eastern European president as “President Putin” during his NATO introduction of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination,” Biden said, before starting to leave the podium. “Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.”
After his disastrous start at the NATO conference, Biden conducted what the White House called a “big boy” press conference – his first solo press conference this year.
