Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly did not hold back Thursday on President Joe Biden’s recent “pause” gaffe.
Biden read from the teleprompter during a campaign speech Wednesday, saying, “four more years … pause.” During her show Thursday, Kelly criticized the president for struggling with the “simple assignment” of reading from a teleprompter, calling him a “poor slob.”
“It was such a simple assignment! It was so simple,” Kelly said.
“Oh my god…. ‘Four more years … pause. Pause.’ And when the White House transcription guy — God love this poor slob, who knows what he had to go through,” Kelly laughed. “They changed it to ‘unintelligible.’ They refused to write ‘pause.’ Sir, we know it. We know what it was. It was very clear. He said, ‘paused.’ He embarrassed himself again, and he cannot be saved by the White House transcription guy.”
“I really think this is the kind of thing that will horrify and stick,” Kelly added.
In addition to verbal gaffes, the president has encountered mobility difficulties and even fell on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy Graduation ceremony in June 2023. Kelly recalled MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski being “angry” about Biden’s fall, mentioning that the “Morning Joe” co-host wondered why the president’s “handlers” were “setting him up to fail” and not “taking better care of him.” (RELATED: Gaffe After Gaffe After Gaffe’: Fox Host Explodes At Panelist Over Biden’s ‘Frustrating’ Blunders)
“What are they supposed to do?” Kelly asked. “He can only do it with a teleprompter. We’ve seen what happens when he doesn’t have the teleprompter. Here, I mean — when he has the prompter though, in defense of the Mika Brzezinski argument, which is that he should be spared these humiliations, he screws it up all the time.”
Guest commentator Josh Hammer told Kelly that Biden is a “gaffe machine,” adding that the president is “obviously senile.” He compared Biden’s “pause” gaffe to “Let’s go Brandon” chants that began in 2021. Fans at a NASCAR loudly chanted “Fuck Joe Biden” as Xfinity Series winner Brandon Brown approached NBC reporter Kelli Stavast, who suggested to Brown that the crowd was chanting “Let’s go Brandon.”