Joe Biden is back in action, folks.
On Tuesday evening, Joe Biden spoke at Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) conference in Chicago, where he was honored with their ‘beacon of hope’ award.
It was his first public speech since leaving the White House in January.
And, it went just about as well as you might have guessed, with Joe Biden shouting and slurring periodically throughout his remarks.
Of course, Biden pulled out one of his signature gaffes during the speech, recalling the first time he ever saw “colored kids” on a school bus.
Watch that moment for yourself here:
Joe Biden is spending his first speech since leaving office saying he didn’t have to grow up around black people
“I remember watching a bus go by… it was full of colored kids… I had never seen those.”
The face of the Democrat party
pic.twitter.com/4keCWCep8O
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 15, 2025
President Trump hilariously shared the moment on Truth Social:
LMAO!!! Trump just posted the video, with no caption, of Joe Biden saying this
“I’ve never seen hardly any black people in Scranton at the time… I remember seeing kids going by at the time called colored kids, on the bus going by…”
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 15, 2025
Fox News reported:
Former President Joe Biden, while reflecting on his youth and witnessing segregation firsthand, referred to Black students as “colored kids” in his first major address since exiting the Oval Office.
“We lived in an apartment complex, and she’d [Biden’s mom] drive us only about half a mile to Holy Rosary School in Claymont. But it was so dangerous, she wouldn’t let us walk up,” Biden said Tuesday evening while delivering a speech on the Social Security Administration before a disability advocacy conference in Chicago.
“There were hardly any Black people in Scranton at the time … and I was only going into fourth grade. And I remember seeing kids going by, at the time called colored kids, on a bus going by,” Biden added in his anecdote to explain the importance of civil rights laws to him and why he got involved in politics.
The 46th president was reflecting on how his family moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware, when he was in fourth grade and how he witnessed segregated schools in the nation’s second-smallest state.
They never turned right to go to Claymont High School,” Biden said of Black students not attending a White school. “I asked my mom why? Why? In Delaware, they’re not allowed to go to school in public school with White kids.
“And it sparked my sense of outrage as a kid, just like it does [now].”
Biden’s racism wasn’t the only lowlight of the night…
His speech also contained lots of shouting about “dignity” and Social Security:
The Democrats pulled Biden out of retirement for him to yell about “dignity” and Social Security.
I can’t believe we had to live through this for 4 years. pic.twitter.com/IDbsYGcdLS
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) April 15, 2025
In another moment, Biden said that he wants to meet the “300-year-old-folk getting Social Security” that DOGE found to ask them about the secrets of longevity…
That was probably meant as a joke, but nobody was laughing.
Watch here:
JUST NOW – BIDEN: “By the way, those 300-year-old folk getting that Social Security, I wanna meet ’em. H*ll of a thing, man!”
That’s. The. Point. Joey.pic.twitter.com/ybN8BIf7TQ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 15, 2025
Sorry, fraud isn’t funny to anyone but you, Joe.
The New York Post commented on Joe Biden’s return to the public eye:
Biden didn’t refer to President Trump by name during his roughly 30-minute speech, the first since the end of his presidency in January.
However, the former commander in chief did allude to claims of fraud in Social Security that have been made by Trump and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk.
“Those 300-year-old folk getting that Social Security, I want to meet them,” Biden joked. “I’d like to figure out how they live that long.”
“Hell of a thing, man. I’m looking for longevity.”
The speech got off to an awkward start, as Biden took the podium and spoke for several seconds as a Bruce Springsteen track — his introduction music — blared in the background, drowning out his opening lines.
When he wrapped up his remarks, a wide-eyed Biden stood at the podium and looked at both ends of the stage before identifying the stairs, pointing at them, and making his exit.
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