Charlamagne tha God has called Joe Biden “an uninspiring candidate” for the 2024 presidential election, with “no main character energy at all” in his latest portrayal of the Democratic front-runner.
The “Breakfast Club” radio personality, whose real name is Lenard McKelvey, endorsed Biden in 2020 but has said he will not support him in 2024.
‘He’s just an uninspiring candidate. There is nothing about Joe Biden that makes you want to listen to him,” the influential radio host told ABC host Jonathan Karl.
“That’s why he should lean on his Vice President Kamala Harris, who is much more charismatic than him.
“He would have to lean on other surrogates like Gavin Newsom or Shapiro in Pennsylvania.”
Charlamagne tha God has called Joe Biden ‘an uninspiring candidate’ for the 2024 presidential election, with ‘no main character energy at all’
The ‘Breakfast Club’ radio personality, whose real name is Lenard McKelvey, endorsed Biden in 2020 but has said he will not support him in 2024
Charlamagne said Biden ‘needs to lean on his Vice President Kamala Harris, who is much more charismatic than him’
“He should lean on people who are more inspiring than him, who are more charismatic than him,” Charlamagne added.
‘And he should be, if you want to call it the brains of the operation behind the scenes.
“Like it sounds crazy that we say that about a president of the United States of America, but he has no main character energy at all.”
Asked if he found the 81-year-old Biden uninspiring because of his age, he added: “I don’t think it has anything to do with age.
‘I think it has everything to do with him. Donald Trump is four years, three years younger than President Biden.
‘But he just seems much more youthful. He comes across as having a lot more energy.”
Charlamagne appeared on the campaign trail with Harris in 2019, when she unveiled her mental health plan — something of a personal issue for a radio host who has spoken about his own struggles.
But he is among those who have become disillusioned with the Biden administration, and he admits listeners have given him grief for telling them to support him in 2020.
Last month, Charlamagne called Biden a “shi**y elected official” and Trump “the end of democracy as we know it.”
In recent years, he has become a thorn in the side of the Biden administration, often criticizing Democrats for failing to find another candidate.
Biden ‘should lean on other surrogates like Gavin Newsom for the 2024 race, according to Charlamagne’
Charlamagne Tha God has been a frequent critic of the Biden administration since endorsing them in 2020
When Charlamagne guest-hosted the Daily Show in December, he said the “ultimate Christmas gift” would be for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, pleading with him not to make the same mistake as the former Supreme Court justice , Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“Biden isn’t getting any younger. He won’t become more popular and he won’t get a new running mate. Please, Mr. President, give America the ultimate Christmas gift and step aside,” he said on the Daily Show.
‘I know he thinks he has what it takes, but the polls say otherwise. I want Biden to step in to beat Trump like I want him to step in to defend me in a bar fight. I appreciate you caring, but I’m not happy with our chances.”
In September 2023, he blasted the president for messing up LL Cool J’s name and using a “racist” term to refer to him at an event honoring the artist.
Biden messed up the rapper’s name and then called LL Cool J “boy” during a speech at a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner.
Charlamagne said: ‘He completely understands the word boy in the racial context around a white man, referring to a black man, is boy.’
“If someone uses the word boy to refer to an adult black man and the speaker is white, that takes on a whole different point in context.”
The word boy, when used by white people to refer to backward men, is a historically loaded term that has been used to indicate superiority during slavery and afterward.
In January 2023, Charlamagne and The Breakfast Club co-host DJ Envy claimed that Biden needs to be “tested for dementia” before he can run in 2024.
In November 2022, he criticized Democrats on Fox News for not having a better 2024 candidate than Biden, who he said would not be able to energize voters.
He told Fox it was “sad” that Biden was Democrats’ “safest bet” and questioned whether he was popular enough to beat Donald Trump or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
When asked if he would vote for Biden again, Charlamagne made no commitment and instead said voting for former President Donald Trump would be like voting for the “antichrist.”
In October 2022 Charlemagne criticized Biden for defending himself his former crack addict son Hunter after he put “so many black people in jail for smoking cocaine” instead of getting them “help” when he was a senator.
He gave the president the title of “Ass of the Day” in January 2022 when the Voting Rights Act was defeated and accused the president of not caring about Black voting rights.
In a July 2020 radio show, Charlamagne called Biden the ‘ass of the day’ for calling Donald Trump the “first racist president.”
“Saying that Donald Trump is the first racist president is a lie, okay? It is a lie that absolves America of all responsibility for its bigotry,” he said.
The Breakfast Club host also claimed that Biden made rapper Kanye West seem like a “viable option” for president. He said, “I really wish Joe Biden would shut up forever.”
Following a May 2020 interview with the then-presidential candidate, Charlamagne condemned Biden’s record with black voters, stating that the former vice president was a “very complicated” part of the “systemic racism” that must be “dismantled” with his crime of 1994. bill.
During that May 2020 interview, Biden concluded by saying, “If you’re having trouble figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you’re not black.”