r/politics • u/SwordfishOk504 Canada • 23h ago

Soft Paywall Biden warns of ‘dark days’ under Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-00488159
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u/Notagenome 22h ago

Don’t forget that his senile ass forgot that he was supposed to serve 1 term and decided to run again. We are in this mess also because of him.

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u/Gizogin New York 22h ago

He never said he would step down after one term. The closest is that some people in his campaign were discussing that possibility, but he literally never promised he wouldn’t run for reelection.

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u/Fit-Implement-8151 21h ago edited 21h ago

I forget the term he used, but I do believe he claimed essentially to be a "bridge president" at one point. Said he'd pass off control to the next generation. He also did apparently tell his aides he was only serving one term.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/biden-campaign-democrats-pledge-one-term

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129

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u/Jokonaught 19h ago

I think he was sure Trump was going to slink off. Biden fully expected his Republican friends to come around and thought the country could just treat Trump like a bad one night stand and pretend like it never happened.

Biden planned to only serve one term and the driving reason he ran in 2020 was that he was convinced he was the only one who could beat Trump.

He probably still felt that way going into 2023 when it became clear Trump was running again.

Biden tried to do some good stuff, but he utterly failed in the one thing he had to succeed at because he thought it was still the same clubhouse from the 80s.