On the same day her husband delivered his ‘farewell address’ to the nation, Jill Biden got her own last word with a final fawning profile that ran in The Washington Post Style section.
The piece is filled with meaningless nuggets about the first lady’s “pearlescent” complexion (the result of “lustrous foundation”) and the way she takes her tea (with honey and lemon), but it did make news for what Biden had to say about former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the role she played in forcing Joe Biden out of the 2024 election.
On Thursday’s show, Megyn was joined by political commentators Amala Ekpunobi and Link Lauren to discuss the puff piece and Biden’s revelation about Pelosi.
Biden on Pelosi
In the piece titled “Jill Biden still hopes for a good ending,” the outgoing first lady admitted she found it “disappointing” that Pelosi was the Democratic leader who played the most decisive role in her husband’s ouster. “We were friends for 50 years,” Biden lamented. “It was disappointing.”
Calls for the then-81-year-old president to step aside began in June after his disastrous performance on the CNN debate stage. After initially insisting he would stay in the race, pressure from top Dems – led by the powerful Californian – ultimately pushed him to suspend his campaign on July 21.
While The Washington Post claims Biden is “at peace” with how her husband’s political career is ending, she is clearly not over what went down. “Let’s just say I was disappointed with how it unfolded,” she told the paper. “I don’t know. I learned a lot about human nature. I think that’s all I’m going to say.”
‘Geriatric Mean Girls’
Megyn said the framing of Biden in this piece was, as usual, over the top. “I am sick of… magazine after magazine, newspaper after newspaper trying to convince us of Jill Biden’s just preternatural beauty and fashion sense,” she said. “Like, can you stop with the ‘pearlescent skin’? It’s over the top.”
Lauren agreed, but believes the media fawning has not done the first lady any favors. “In my opinion, she is going to go down as one of the most unlikable women in politics, and she has no one else to blame for herself for the position that she is in,” he explained. “She has beefs with Nancy Pelosi, with Kamala Harris – she is like the Regina George of Washington, D.C. This is like… geriatric Mean Girls right now.”
He said the 73 year old is “burning every bridge” and “stabbing people in the back” in a desperate attempt to cling to power. “I don’t know any wife or any woman who would have allowed their husband to go on national TV on June 27 and do what he did in that debate,” he added. “If you had any dignity or respect for your man, you would have said it’s time to retire years ago. But you were so power hungry.”
Ekpunobi believes that thirst for power runs deep. “I think Jill Biden is so upset because… she was doing so much behind the scenes… Through his presidency, she was kind of, you know, a little bit of the president,” she said. “So to be slighted by Nancy Pelosi, who she knows has a dark history and a dark present – she is just not happy about that.”
And she is apparently not afraid to let everyone know it. “I think we’ve been seeing Jill Biden… just be more of herself, be more open about what she is truly thinking about what is happening behind the scenes,” Ekpunobi noted. “And this is just one of those times where… when she is on the way out, she is just going to… say what she wants to say.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Ekpunobi and Lauren by tuning in to episode 984 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.