Joe Biden’s Appearance on The View Sparks Concerns

Jill Biden appeared to give her former president husband Joe a secret signal on The View after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked a very risky question.

Biden, 82, was asked about Democrat insiders saying he’d suffered a sharp cognitive decline during his final year in office and began answering the question.

But after a few moments of relatively fluid speech the former president suddenly stopped and said: ‘I’ve spoken enough.’

Jill, who was sat beside her husband, picked up the answer without a beat, sparking theories she may have nudged him or kicked him under the table to shut him up.

The former first lady has long been accused of hiding her ailing husband away during his doomed 2024 presidential campaign and telling him not to stand down despite growing outrage over his clear mental decline.

But she angrily denied ‘sequestering’ him during Thursday’s live appearance on the ABC show.

Meanwhile, Biden was also seen sporting a mysterious band aid on his left hand.

The president was previously seen with a bruise on the same hand, sparking theories about whether he had undergone some kind of infusion for the benefit of his health.

When he was asked the question on his mental health, Biden awkwardly cut himself off mid-answer as he gave a halting and mumbling performance on the show.

Former President Joe Biden suddenly stopped talking while answering a dangerous question about his cognitive decline on The View Thursday

His wife, former first lady Jill Biden, picked up without a beat, sparking theories she’d nudged or kicked him to shut him up

Biden was also seen sporting a mysterious band aid on his hand during Thursday’s show

The president was previously spotted with bruising on the same area of the same hand, sparking speculation that he may have undergone an infusion to boost his health

Concerns About Biden’s Health

Jill’s sudden interjection appeared rehearsed, as she added in her retort that she was infuriated by books about her husband’s struggles in office because ‘nobody saw how hard Joe worked.’

The conversation lingered on allegations of Biden’s mental cognition, with Whoopi Goldberg at one point minimizing his disastrous debate against Trump last June as ‘just a bad night.’

The awkward moment came after Biden was greeted warmly by The View hosts as he jogged out to the studio, in an apparent attempt to look sprightly as he re-entered the limelight.

But moments later, Biden had to clear a huge lump of phlegm from his throat and paused his sentence to deal with the unpleasant vocal issue.

Biden said he ‘wasn’t surprised’ Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in the 2024 race.

‘(Trump) still got seven million fewer votes’ than in their 2020 showdown, Biden said, adding that Trump went with ‘the sexist route’ during the campaign to ‘undercut’ Harris’ bid for the presidency.

The octogenarian jogged as he entered the studio to a big cheer, in an apparent attempt to look sprightly as he re-entered the limelight

Biden’s Recent Interviews

The interview is a rare public appearance for Biden since he left the presidency almost four months ago.

This week, he gave his first solo interview to BBC Radio 4’s Today program, where he claimed he took so long to bow out of the 2024 presidential race because he was so ‘successful’ in office before implying Harris would have lost anyway.

Biden also raised eyebrows with his appearance at the funeral of Pope Francis last month, as he was seen gripping a priest’s arm as he struggled to walk down a set of stairs.

Biden also raised eyebrows with his appearance at the funeral of Pope Francis last month, as he was seen gripping a priest’s arm as he struggled to walk down a set of stairs

In his interview earlier this week, Biden whispered, mumbled, coughed, and paused for long moments as he conducted his first broadcast since leaving office.

When asked why he did not end his 2024 campaign earlier, he said: ‘I don’t think it would have mattered.’

Book Deal and Tell-All Book

The appearance on The View also comes as a diary Jill Biden reportedly kept during their time in the White House is set to be used in a tell-all book.