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In a move surprising to almost no one, President Joe Biden is declining to participate in the tradition of the presidential Super Bowl interview.
What did surprise some, however, was the ferocity with which Biden’s team reacted when Donald Trump lightheartedly suggested taking Biden’s place.
As reported by NBC News, Biden is skipping the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview, “[fo]r the second year in a row.”
His aides defend this decision as part of a “larger communication strategy,” but knowing Biden’s propensity to forget what words are, most of us can probably guess at the real reason.
Either way, Biden’s aides contend that it’s only because “many voters … simply want to tune into the game. And that seeing the president pop up while waiting for kickoff might turn them off.”
That said, not even Democrats are satisfied with this flimsy excuse, with a veteran Democratic campaign operative telling NBC, “Either he doesn’t have anything to say or his team is worried about what he might say or how he’d say it. Regardless, it’s a problem.”
Here is where Trump came in. On Truth social, he threw his hat into the ring, saying “Crooked Joe Biden has just announced that he will not be doing the big Super Bowl Interview. A great decision, he can’t put two sentences together. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO REPLACE HIM – would be ‘RATINGS GOLD!’”
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