NBC’s Brendan Buck on Biden’s Appearance on ‘The View’: ‘Sadly ... We Saw a Person Who Is Not Very Sharp’

WELKER: “I mean, Brendan, what do you make of what we heard from President Biden, not just that sound bite, but he’s also defending his mental competency, he’s saying there was never a decline. He says that was basically overstated. He says he dropped out to unify the party, because he felt like Democrats had just become too divided.”

BUCK: “Yeah, well, just to kind of bring it all together, I think one thing Democrats need to do is acknowledge that the president did have a decline and that the Democratic Party did a very poor job of acknowledging the reality that every single American saw. And I think, sadly, again on The View today, we saw a person who is not very sharp at this point. You know, he’s an older man, and maybe that’s to be expected. He clearly cares about his legacy and that’s obviously what this is all about. He’s getting hammered even from his own party, lot of people criticizing him and feels the need to get out there. Of course, there’s a book coming out and there’s a book coming out that is supposed to look at what happened behind the scenes about, a lot of people would say, the cover-up of his mental decline. And he obviously cares about that and he’s trying to get ahead of it. I don’t know that he did himself any favors today, but that’s obviously what he’s trying to do.”