Read previewAfter months of having to defend his age, President Joe Biden seems willing to discuss it — and its limitations — openly.
Sitting for an interview on "The View" on Wednesday, he subtly acknowledged how age factored into his decision to drop out of the election.
While Biden stopped short of pinning his decision on his age alone, he openly hinted at the toll being an 86-year-old president would have taken.
At his State of the Union speech in March, Biden simultaneously joked about and worked hard to justify his age.
When Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts, compared Trump to a bug, Biden slapped the table, miming killing the insect to raucous applause.
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