On April 26, local time, the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, made a rare appearance on a podcast and recalled his past with host Howard Stern, from being an unmarried young senator to losing his first The pain of a wife and an infant daughter.
According to reports, the 81-year-old Biden has rarely given interviews since taking office, and this "appearance" was not included in his public schedule.
Biden attended a fund-raising event at the home of veteran Hollywood movie star Michael Douglas in Westchester County, New York, on the evening of the 25th. According to media speculation, he went to a studio in Manhattan and communicated with the well-known radio host Stern before flying back to Washington, DC.
In the chat, the most surprising revelation was that Biden said that he had considered suicide. "You don't have to be crazy to want to commit suicide," Biden said.
The reason why this veteran politician who has been involved in politics for almost his whole life has such thoughts is because he has experienced the darkest period in his life, that is, when his first wife Nelia and their 1-year-old His daughter Naomi was killed in a car accident in Delaware, and her two sons were also injured, but luckily escaped death.
"For a moment, I thought maybe I would go to the Delaware Memorial Bridge and jump off it, but I have two kids," Biden recalled of the moment. "I don't drink, and that's not a virtue. I just never drink." And, I often sit there and think to myself, I’m just going to get a bottle of scotch in the house and I just want to get drunk, but I can never bring myself to do that.”
Biden does not drink. Zhan, he also explained why, saying that "there are enough alcoholics in the family."
Although thinking about his first wife was sad, the elderly president who is running for re-election quickly turned the topic to romantic matters. On the show, he told the host that decades ago, when he was an unmarried senator, he was "on a list of the ten most eligible bachelors."
"A lot of lovely women, but they were all grown women, would send very provocative photos, and I would hand them over to the Secret Service. I thought someone would think I was..." Biden said, his voice trailing off. , but did not clarify why the agency responsible for the president's security was involved, and the outside world is not sure why.
handed over the photos of his love to the Secret Service. Biden seemed to want to show that as an unmarried young man, he was a little pure. Then he further explained how "clear" he was before marriage. He told Stern, They had never gone "over the edge" before proposing to Nelia.
Regarding the upcoming presidential election in November this year, Biden also met there to talk a few words. He said that he was ready to debate his opponent Trump, and that he was "very happy" to be able to debate with the 77-year-old old rivals took to the debate stage together.
In fact, the White House and Biden's campaign team have been swinging around this debate issue for months. Although candidate debates are a tradition before the election, Biden's performance in improvisation is poor, so There is also a chance that the debate will be cancelled.
Trump also responded immediately to Biden’s debate decision, of course on social media. “Crooked Joe Biden just announced he’s open to debate! Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but if he did I’d say, anywhere, anytime, anywhere, here’s to the warriors An ancient expression used by
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