Maddow Suggests Biden Isn’t Too Old for the Presidency Because ‘He Rides a Bike’

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow suggested on Thursday that claims President Joe Biden is too old for the presidency could be deflected by the fact that “he rides a bike.”

Several MSNBC hosts accused Biden’s critics of “ageism” on Thursday after Biden called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi “the president of Mexico” during a press conference addressing a Department of Justice report which said he had a “significantly limited” memory and couldn’t remember when his son died.

“It is standard ops to say, ‘I don’t recall,'” argued MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber, noting that former President Donald Trump had used the same response in some of his own recent cases.

Melber continued:

Let’s call it what it is. This is ageism snuck into a report about clearing the person of any wrongdoing. If you want to get into the ageism, young people are told all the time by their lawyers, “Hey, you’re way better off leaning into I don’t recall than possibly misstating something to a federal officer or under oath in this case,” so it’s a lot of derogatory stuff.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes then weighed in:

We should just be clear here, right? Like, age is the central narrative question here that this all revolves around in terms of its political repercussions, the way the news happened today, the questions being asked him by multiple figures there, and in the end, what makes it such a useful political tool for people that want Donald Trump to be elected or want him [Biden] not to be reelected is that the fact of his age is not something you can rebut.

Hayes noted, “If someone says, ‘You’re too far left,’ you can tack to the center,” but there’s nothing you can do if someone says you’re too old.”

“He rides a bike,” replied MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

Hayes concluded, “But he is the age he is and so it’s a very useful political attack for that reason.”

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