ChatGPT or Dentures? Right-Wing Media Goes Nuts Over Biden’s Farewell Address
Right-wing media pundits were unimpressed with President Joe Biden’s farewell speech on Thursday, including one Fox panelist who could hardly believe AI didn’t write it and another Newsmax anchor who suggested Biden’s dentures were coming loose.
Appearing from the Oval Office, Biden warned that a “tech-industrial complex” flaming the fans of disinformation and abusing artificial intelligence could become even more powerful in the years to come.
Reacting to the speech on Fox, Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary, said the speech rang “hollow” to her ears and accused speech writers of using AI technology to compose the speech instead.
“It felt like the speech writers had already left the building and that they asked ChatGPT to write a speech for Joe Biden, in which he doesn’t remember that he was president for the last four years,” she said on an episode of Jesse Watters Primetime.
Perino cited a recent Gallup poll showing that Americans had a largely negative assessment of Biden’s presidency when judged on 18 different issues, including the economy, crime, and immigration.
On the same panel, Fox News anchor Bret Baier took exception to Biden’s claim that “there’s a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few, ultra-wealthy people.”
Baier pointed out that Democrats raised more money than Republicans in the last election.
“So there was a concentration of money on the Democratic side,” he said. “It was just what they were selling [that] was not selling to the American people.”
Journalist and political commentator Brit Hume said the speech struck him as an attempt to restore Biden’s image as an effective president.
“I think he did the best he could with what he had to work with, but it’s a difficult situation because the public has clearly rejected his record,” he said. “It’s a hard sell and it comes at a time when I think the public has largely tuned him out.”
Speaking on a separate panel on the Jesse Waters show, Kayleigh McEnany, another former White House press secretary, characterized the speech as “tone deaf.”
“It was so incredibly tone-deaf, and there was a bit of irony. He is exiting the stage with the lowest approval rating he has ever had, at 37 percent,” she said.
🔥 WATCH: @KayleighMcEnany slams Joe Biden's “tone-deaf” farewell address:
“It was so incredibly tone-deaf, and there was a bit of irony. He is exiting the stage with the lowest approval rating he has ever had at 37%.”
“While the guy that he warned was a threat to democracy,… pic.twitter.com/YhXCmSlUeO— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) January 16, 2025
Meanwhile, over at CNN, political commentator Scott Jennings said Biden will be remembered for “bringing back Trump and Trumpism stronger and more popular than ever.”
Jennings said he was “astonished” that Biden ever considered running for another term: “The fact that they pursued that farce for as long as they did, to me, remains one of the most astonishing things about this term.”
Over on Newsmax, anchor Rob Finnerty said he “almost felt bad” for Biden, even speculating that the president’s dentures were coming loose and giving him a lisp.
“But then I thought about everything that he has done to us and this country over the last four years, and I caught myself,” he said.
"I almost felt bad for Joe Biden," @RobFinnertyUSA says after watching the president's farewell address — "then I thought about everything he has done to us and this country over the last four years." pic.twitter.com/KzcJzicga5
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) January 16, 2025
Trump is set to take office in a grand inauguration next week.