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The hosts of Save America Pod president accused Joe Biden to “disappear” in the public eye and make it “increasingly easy to forget” that the president-elect Donald Trump is not yet in the White House.

Jon Favreau, Jon LovettAnd Tommy Vietor – all former collaborators of the former president Barack Obama — all expressed some dissatisfaction with how Biden handled his final days in office. Favreau argued that Trump already behaves as if he were president, making political announcements and meeting with heads of state and billionaires as Mark Zuckerberg.

Favreau highlighted Trump’s recent press conference at Mar-a-Lago, where he announcement a $100 billion investment by Japanese company SoftBank in American AI technologies.

“It was more or less a standard presidential political announcement, the main difference being that Trump is not president yet! A fact that is increasingly easy to forget as Joe Biden seems to fade from the public eye as his term draws to a close,” he said.

Lovett called the press conference a “fun mirror version of a presidential announcement.”

“Joe Biden believes in tradition and institutions and we should only have one president at a time, and I think it’s a surprising choice to allow it to be Donald Trump,” he said sarcastically .

Vietor questioned why Biden did not attend the Army-Navy football game this weekend, saying he was “shocked” that Biden never attended the event as president. Trump meanwhile assisted the game.

“Trump is generally very good at using social events to show off this kind of pageantry and paraphernalia of the presidency. He does it better, I think, than any president in our lifetime, better than Obama, better than Biden,” he said.

All three men expressed hope that Biden could accomplish some important things, pointing to a White House memo promising that the president would push further forward. pardons and hopefully further reduce student debt. Lovett, however, questioned how “in control” Biden was, expressing regret for not “being more honest” about Biden while the president was still up for re-election. He argued that the Democratic Party was “paying dearly” to stick with Biden’s re-election bid before making a last-minute move to vice president. Kamala Harris.

Lovett argued:

I’m basically trying to separate my frustration with Joe Biden over his final year, which culminated in this debate and hanging on, and how much we paid to have someone who was just not not a clear and complete messenger, not just in the name of his own presidency, but in the name of progressivism, of democracy – and I’m very angry about that and I’m a little angry with myself for not to have been more honest about what I felt or not seeing it as clearly because we obviously pay a lot of money for it. I guess what worries me more than seeing enough of Joe Biden – maybe he’s right that people don’t want to hear about him – is more, like, do I confident sense right now that Joe Biden is thinking behind the scenes about all the ways he can try to sustain the White House.

Watch above via Save America Pod (relevant part 11:29-19:17).