First lady Jill Biden shrugged off her husband’s poor polls Wednesday, predicting Americans will “choose good over evil” Nov. 5 — after taking a shot at former President Donald Trump’s cognitive faculties.
Riffing off “The View” co-host Joy Behar’s assertion that the 45th president “can’t put a sentence together and has, like, brain farts in the middle of his paragraphs,” the first lady predicted President Biden will look sharp in a debate against his rival.
“You’re gonna see how smart he [President Biden] is and the experience he has. And then you’ll see somebody who, like you’re saying — I’m going to use Joy’s words — ‘can’t put a sentence together,’” she told the ABC gabfest.
“With all due respect to first lady Jill Biden, her husband is a walking zombie who can’t climb up stairs, talk, or read a script off a teleprompter,” Trump campaign national spokesperson Karoline Leavitt fired back in a statement to The Post.
“Rather than go on ‘The View’ and spew lies about President Trump to save her husband’s dying campaign, she should start packing her corrupt family’s bags because they’ll be leaving the White House very soon.”
A series of polls have shown deep voter apprehension about Joe Biden’s age, due in large part due to a series of brutal gaffes. At 81, he is already the oldest president in US history and would be 86 at the conclusion of a second full hypothetical term.
Should Trump win and serve out a full second term, he will take the title of oldest US president upon leaving office at the age of 82 in 2029.
Biden and Trump, 77, have agreed to two one-on-one debates, to be held June 27 and Sept. 10.
In a national head-to-head matchup, Trump leads Biden by 1.1 percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
However, the first lady acted blasé about the state of the race, insisting: “We’re not going to take anything for granted and those polls are going to turn — I’m confident of it.”
“As time goes on and as people start to focus a little bit more about what’s at stake and start to become educated on the issues and the differences between the two men,” she added, “I believe that Americans are going to choose good over evil.”
Jill Biden then fretted about the future of the US, saying things “could get a lot worse under a Trump presidency.”
“I mean, you have to believe him when he uses words like ‘dictator,’ ‘bloodbath,’ ‘third term,’ ‘violence,’” she warned. “We cannot take things for granted.”
The first lady’s appearance on “The View” was meant to promote her new children’s book, “Willow the White House Cat,” which is slated for release on June 4.
“It’s about the cat’s-eye view, from behind the scenes, about all the wonderful people that work in the White House,” she said. “I wanted to say thank you to them for their acts of kindness, because I think acts of kindness really matter in life.”
