History UsefulNotes / JoeBiden

[[caption-width-right:300:The [[YoungGun youngest U.S. senator]] in 1973, and the [[CoolOldGuy oldest U.S. president]] in 2021. [[CharacterCatchphrase No malarkey, Jack!]]]]

Impressionists have had a hard time portraying Biden, as he doesn't have an especially distinct [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents accent]][[note]]Attentive listeners can tell he has the accent from the Delaware Valley/Greater UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, as appropriate for someone who spent most of his life in general Philly orbit, but it's a ''very'' soft accent.[[/note]] or tic (other than maybe "[[CurseOfTheAncients malarkey]]") they can latch onto, with some satirists after 2020 simply using a generic "old man voice" to parody him.[[note]]For example, Creator/JasonSudeikis, who portrayed Biden several times in ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during his vice presidency, while praised for overall capturing the CoolOldGuy image Biden had during this time (at least until the death of his son Beau), was noted as otherwise acting and sounding ''nothing at all'' like him. Creator/JimmyFallon also noted the difficulty of getting the hang of Biden's mannerisms in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRxDB_1hoI a behind-the-scenes video]] of Fallon imitating Biden on ''Series/{{The Tonight Show|StarringJimmyFallon}}''.[[/note]] By comparison, UsefulNotes/BernieSanders is more animated than Biden--and has a distinctly [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]] accent--and is consequently easier to parody for his bombastic speaking style and habit of hunching down while gesticulating toward the camera. Attempts at lampooning Biden for clumsiness took off for a time after he slipped on the steps of Air Force One, but they didn't stick like they did with UsefulNotes/GeraldFord.

[[caption-width-right:300:The [[YoungGun youngest U.S. senator]] in 1973, and the [[CoolOldGuy oldest U.S. president]] in 2021. [[{{Catchphrase}} No malarkey, Jack!]]]]

More information on his life and career can be found [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden a more detailed page]] over on [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]].

* During his time as Vice President, ''Website/TheOnion'' regularly published articles on Biden, portraying him as a CoolOldGuy and a LovableSexManiac (its first appearance being in an article famously titled "Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am in White House Driveway"). This characterization, nicknamed "Diamond Joe", was so popular that it even got [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_(The_Onion) its own page]] on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}. After Biden began his 2020 presidential campaign, former ''Onion'' editor Joe Garden wrote a self-critical op-ed where he said that while he still felt the caricature had been funny, he expressed regret that it had failed to provide more meaningful commentary on Biden's real-life record, and after reviving the "Diamond Joe" version of Biden for one final article ("Biden Pulls Off Dusty Tarp Covering Old Campaign Motorcycle"), his characterization in ''The Onion'' changed, and articles portrayed him as more of a ineffectual moderate.

** ''Website/TheOnion'' portrayed him as driving a 1978 Trans Am, which he would wash [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] in the White House driveway. ''Literature/TheObamaBidenMysteries'', a series of novels that portray Obama and Biden as solving crimes like a modern day Literature/SherlockHolmes and [[TheWatson Dr. Watson]] after they leave the White House, actually features Biden driving a Trans Am [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETAUd_rX0AEx81V?format=jpg&name=large in one of its covers]], possibly as a direct ShoutOut to his ''The Onion'' portrayal.

* BigShutUp: During the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump repeatedly interrupted Biden's attempt to answer a question given to him by moderator Chris Wallace on whether he would support "court-packing."[[note]]This was a proposal introduced by progressive Democrats to add more justices to the Supreme Court; a similar attempt by FDR in 1937 so he could get more favorable rulings on New Deal legislation failed due to public opposition[[/note]] Annoyed by this, Biden ended up snapping at Trump "Will you shut up, man?" [[MemeticMutation This instantly became a meme during that year's election cycle]].
* BookEnds: He started his political career as the youngest U.S. Senator in modern[[note]] read: "age-checked". There have been a few serving in the past who were not actually 30 or even close, but as Joe was still 29 when he won the 1972 Senate race, he's about as young as you can currently get — to compare, the youngest Senator to get anywhere near that, Georgia's Jon Ossoff, wasn’t even elected until 2021[[/note]] history, and ultimately became the oldest President. To make this even stranger, as noted by some of the news anchors who covered the 2020 presidential election (such as Mika Brzezinski of Creator/{{MSNBC}}'s ''Morning Joe''), he was elected to his first Senate term on November 7, 1972; and the 2020 presidential election was called for him on November 7, 2020.
* BoringButPractical: In something of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of the old "[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Diamond]] [[MemeticBadass Joe]]" persona ''Website/TheOnion'' helped him cultivate, during and after the 2020 presidential election, Biden more or less promised to be "[[GoodIsBoring reassuringly boring]]" compared to his predecessor. Pragmatically, this was the subject of some contention from fellow Democrats, with much early criticism thrown on him as being too moderate compared to more progressive candidates like UsefulNotes/BernieSanders, but ultimately, his approach won him the primaries, and eventually the election as a whole. Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/RachelMaddow [[https://youtu.be/4of5iIRlUm4?t=548 satirically extolled in almost]] [[{{Fetish}} quasi-pornographic terms]] the "baseline competency" of Biden and his incoming Cabinet.
-->'''Creator/StephenColbert:''' I've never been more excited by vanilla in my entire life! Two scoops please!\\
'''Creator/RachelMaddow:''' All of their boring base competency is itself thrilling to an almost Adult Movie degree at this point. 'Look at you! With all your degrees and your experience and your cool-headed approach to mainstream problems! Come over here!'
* ButtMonkey: ''Website/TheOnion''[='=]s depiction of "Diamond" Joe Biden saw him portrayed as his, usually having him getting himself into hijinks (due to being portrayed as a mix of a FratBro, TheCasanova and TheStoner) of which Obama had to bail him out of. This also extended to his real-life verbal gaffes, which made him a lighthearted version of this for the Obama administration.
* CanineCompanion: One bipartisan point toward him has been that, unlike Trump breaking an over a century long tradition, Biden's brought pets back into the White House with his two German Shepherds, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_and_Major Champ and Major]], and they have been seen accompanying him in the Oval Office and frolicking in the White House lawn.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Biden's tendency to refer to anything he disagreed with as "a bunch of malarkey" became so entrenched in popular culture that by the time of the 2012 presidential election there were bets on how soon he would use the phrase against Paul Ryan in the VP debate, and Biden himself seemed to {{lampshade|Hanging}} it when it was used in one of his first responses of the night in his 2016 Democratic Convention speech. One of his slogans on the campaign trail for the 2020 presidential race was "No Malarkey!" which could be seen emblazoned on [[https://images.axios.com/IvHqK3juVQ7nT_mEmKiwoM7ldUc=/0x0:1920x1080/1920x1080/2019/12/09/1575852902178.jpg the side of his campaign bus]] at one point. There was much delight when he finally said it out loud during the last debate of the 2020 presidential election.
** An exasperated "C'mon, man!" similarly became a catchphrase of his during the 2020 campaign.
** He starts a lot of his [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweets]] with "Let me be clear."
** Biden came to define the 2020 presidential election several times as a "battle for the soul of the nation." It went to the point that a 2021 book about the Democratic primary campaigns was titled ''Battle for the Soul''.
** Biden almost always concludes his speeches with "May God bless our country, and may God protect our troops."
* CoolCar: Biden is a known car enthusiast (his father managed a dealership), and several of his appearances in media have him accompained by a nice ride.
** Biden owns a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette convertible that he has had since it was brand new (it was given to him as a gift for his first wedding). Biden and his Corvette [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-hyDSlmUs appeared on an episode]] of ''Creator/JayLeno's Garage'' where he did burnouts in it and later drag raced a newer Corvette driven by a mysterious driver, later revealed to be none other than Colin Powell. Biden's Corvette appeared again during his run for president, such as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQVpzCxumGY a video he released about his "vetting process"]] during the period of speculation about his vice-presidential pick.

** Apparently, even becoming president didn't deter him on cars. Weeks into his presidency, he visited a Ford plant in Detroit to extol his administration's plan for electric cars -- and he promptly decided to try out the F-150 Lightning, Ford's fully-electric pickup truck, by driving it himself (obviously accompanied by the Secret Service) and tearing down the track to show off how fast it accelerates. Many jokes soon emerged comparing it to the time his predecessor hopped into a truck cab but only limited himself to blow its horn.
* CoolOldGuy: Biden's portrayal through his vice presidency had him as a relatable elder. His 2020 presidential campaign certainly leaned on this, even if by then it appeared to be less receptive, as he was subject to a closer scrutiny of his record due to the fact he was, well, ''running for U.S. president'', that he wasn't [[UsefulNotes/BernieSanders the only candidate with a reputation as a cool old guy in the race]], and that many thought him to be too moderate for the divisive Age of Trump. Endgame? Biden won the 2020 presidential election with more than 81 million votes, more than any other candidate in U.S. history. And [[https://www.indy100.com/news/chris-evans-joe-biden-captain-america-avengers-marvel-9724765 people started noticing]] Biden's [[IdenticalStranger physical similarity]] to a certain [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Avenger]], including [[Creator/ChrisEvans the actor who plays him]].
* CoolShades: There are quite a few jokes that have been made about his Ray Ban Aviators, which are bordering on becoming his trademark, to the point some signs during his 2020 campaign simply had a picture of a pair of sunglasses on them. There's at least one instance of a rally he was in erupting into cheers just because he put them on, and Creator/JohnOliver on ''Series/{{Last Week Tonight|WithJohnOliver}}'' once joked that Biden's "happy place" is an image of Biden with his sunglasses on eating ice cream while holding a wad of cash (because there ''is'' [[http://time.com/4408008/joe-biden-ice-cream-obsession/ an actual picture]] that shows Biden doing all those), and Creator/StephenColbert has taken to swapping his glasses for a pair of aviator sunglasses whenever he does a Joe Biden joke or impression during his monologue.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Turning him into this (with Obama as the StraightMan) is a very popular meme. He alternately embraces and chafes at the perception of him, because on one hand it helped him connect with voters (and it did balance out President Obama's reserved nature), but on the other, he has pointed out that he is serious about policy and not just lazing his way through life on his charm. His acceptance of said reputation in particular led to comparisons between his demeanor to [[NoSenseOfHumor President Trump's]].
* DeadpanSnarker:
** During the 2020 election against Trump, Biden would make several snide jabs, particularly noticeable in that the Trump campaign tried to portray him as not being the sharpest knife in the drawer due to his age. His most memorable was at the second debate, when he sarcastically referred to Trump as UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln (as Trump had previously said he'd done more for African-Americans than any president except maybe Lincoln). Equally memorable was [[SarcasmBlind Trump's response]]. As Trump was prone to calling him childish nicknames such as "Sleepy Joe" or "Slow Joe", Biden eventually retorted and called him "President Tweety" for his incessant usage of Twitter over prioritizing COVID-19 financial relief to small businesses. Biden supporters quickly jumped at the nickname, creating [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Tweety Bird]] memes out of it.
** Comes up when he isn't dealing with Trump, too. During a press briefing a week into his presidency, a Fox News reporter asked him what he had talked to UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin about earlier that day [[CriticalResearchFailure (apparently missing that the White House posted the call transcript online)]]. Biden's response was, [[https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354149156001034240 "You. He sends his best."]]
** Even before the 2020 election, Biden was noted for his quips about his opponents. One of his standout moments from the 2008 Democratic primaries was his quote about New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who at the time was competing in the Republican primaries), which came to be viewed as summarizing how Giuliani milked/squandered the good will he had earned for his handling of 9/11: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11." Even Cody Johnston from ''WebVideo/SomeMoreNews'' noted that it was a very apt description. (Keep in mind that Cody is ''not'' a fan of Biden, ''at all'', and his approval was less because of it being a good zinger and more because how Giuliani had really fallen from grace, especially following a series of embarrassing incidents during and immediately after the 2020 presidential election.)
* AFatherToHisMen: While how he did so was harshly criticized across the aisle, Biden fiercely defended his withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan, stating that he will not send any more "generations of America's daughters and sons" to fight the war. This was keeping with a promise that he had made over a decade prior when his son Beau was deployed to active service that he would not see his grandchildren go to fight in the same war.[[note]]In Biden's defense, it was Trump who got the ball rolling for the withdrawal with not enough time for the Biden administration to prepare (Trump also freed 5,000 Taliban, including [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar one of their key leaders]]) and the U.S. military had trained the (now exiled) Afghan government's military to continue keeping the Taliban at bay once the U.S. military left, only for the Afghan government's military to end up folding almost without a fight.[[/note]]
* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: After Champ sadly passed away at the age of thirteen and Major, a rescue, was sent to stay with family friends due to finding the White House too stressful, the Bidens have two pets actually still resident at the White House -- German Shepherd puppy Commander, adopted in December 2021, and tabby cat Willow, who joined the family in January 2022.
* HandicappedBadass: [[SpeechImpediment Stuttering]]. Despite the fact that Joe Biden has been in U.S. politics for about 50 years and despite him having [[https://people.com/celebrity/joe-biden-opens-up-about-childhood-stuttering-problem/ spoken of his childhood battles with stuttering during his tenure as VP]], his more famous OpenMouthInsertFoot incidents seem to have overshadowed this issue until the 2020 presidential election. Despite Trump's own tendency to say [[OpenMouthInsertFoot widely derided]] [[WordSalad nonsensical things]], his campaign tried to portray Biden as "senile" and "in cognitive decline", particularly honing in on Biden's less than fluent speech patterns. In what one journalist called "[[https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/admit-it-we-underestimated-joe-biden-20201109-p56ct3.html a political judo move that may be studied for decades to come]]", the Biden campaign chose to fully embrace the stuttering issue: e.g. Joe Biden said at a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWn1CkIU_rc Town Hall on CNN]]: “Stuttering, when you think about it, is the only handicap people still laugh about, that they still humiliate people about and they don’t even mean to” and spoke openly about his longstanding advocacy and work mentoring young people with stuttering problems. Probably the most effective breakthrough for this message was a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id12d8clg_o testimonial at the DNC from a young supporter whom Biden had coached about coping with his own stutter.]] Not only did [[https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/joe-biden stuttering]] [[https://stamma.org/news-features/joe-biden-president-stammer advocacy]] [[https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/10/02/joe-biden-stutter/ groups]] ([[https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/stammering-joe-biden-stutter-us-election-754253 from around]] [[https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/how-joe-bidens-stutter-helps-people-around-the-world-gain-confidence/ the world]]) [[https://www.health.com/mind-body/joe-biden-stutter jump]] [[https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-a-stutter-cause-treatment-joe-biden-2020-9 in to]] [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/joe-bidens-contest-with-his-words support]] [[https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/how-stutter-affects-speech-joe-biden-debate and/or]] [[https://www.rollcall.com/2020/10/20/speech-therapist-discusses-bidens-stutter-ahead-of-final-debate/ defend]] [[https://websterjournal.com/2020/11/18/bidens-stutter-is-not-dementia-and-its-definitely-not-a-joke/ Biden]], some also noted that by portraying Biden as mentally incompetent, the [[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-29/donald-trump-joe-biden-first-presidential-debate/12712750 Trump campaign had set Biden up]] to have a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass moment. Some even called Biden's stutter his "[[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/opinion/joe-biden-stutter.html superpower]]" because it had given him lifelong training in how to [[BullyingTheDisabled face down a bully]], and given how Trump's "tough talk" rhetoric had led to his detractors to compare it to that of a bully (not helping is the fact he'd mocked a disabled reporter before, to frequent criticism).
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Portraying him and President Obama as this was a very popular meme during their time in office together, and in a post-presidency interview Obama gave, he commented that the memes were "basically true."
* InsultBackfire: Perhaps due to his unassuming nature, propaganda and claims that get levied against him often end up making him look ''better'' to people. For example, when a Trump staffer compared watching his town hall (on the night that the second presidential debate was supposed to have taken place) to an episode of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', Biden supporters latched onto the comparison in a heartbeat because Creator/FredRogers is almost [[AllLovingHero universally beloved]]. And then there's [[https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1395798259914919939 this Chinese propaganda]], which would make for a great DeathMetal album cover.
* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** His famous, much-meme'd friendship with Barack Obama, who is 19 years younger than he is.
** With UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris, who is 22 years younger than he is.
* TheLoad: A common joke used in satirical portrayals during Biden's tenure as vice president was to portray him as one to president Obama. He was noted as being an odd inverse StrawmanHasAPoint, where many of his comments meant in praise of Obama would, if anyone else were saying it, be savage criticism (such as suggesting that if Obama was elected, a crisis would appear... to test him, and that was ''after'' he was selected as VP). In reality, Biden had [[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/04/joe-biden-contain-h1n1-virus-232992 gone against Obama on policy]] in ways that would retroactively be deemed correct, only to be dismissed.
* MemeticBadass:
** Portrayed this way by ''Website/TheOnion'' as "Diamond" Joe Biden. Among other things, Diamond Joe owns a 1978 Trans Am that he washes shirtless in the driveway of the White House every day.
** He received the highest popular vote of ''any'' U.S. President to date, despite the country being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic at the time and the U.S. postal service having been severely defunded, and became the first candidate to defeat an incumbent president since UsefulNotes/BillClinton, almost 30 years before. In particular, the fact that he delivering unexpected (if very narrow) victories in long-solid Republican states Arizona and Georgia resulted in meme-videos such as pictures of a smiling Biden superimposed with landscapes of Georgia with "Marching Through Georgia" in the background.
* MemeticTroll: Portrayed as this by social media in the last weeks of his tenure as vice president, which portrayed him as killing time before the change of administration by preparing pranks for the members of the incoming UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump administration. [[http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-barack-obama-joe-biden-tweets/ Here are some examples.]] He is aware of the memes, [[ApprovalOfGod has approved of them]] and [[ActuallyPrettyFunny thinks they're funny]], saying that his favorite one was suggesting Obama leave a fake birth certificate in the Oval Office desk.
* OlderSidekick: It was noted during Obama and Biden's tenure as president and vice president respectively that Biden was almost two decades older than Obama, with Obama being viewed as more straight-laced while Biden was something of a PluckyComicRelief, a welcome change from his, to be diplomatic, more distant and less-congenial predecessor as VP UsefulNotes/DickCheney. During this time Biden was also portrayed as a bit of a (vice) [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Buffoon]] thanks to his many verbal gaffes.
* PrecisionFStrike: Upon the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Biden [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKq9tt50O8 could be heard saying]] "This is a big fucking deal!" to Barack Obama [[IsThisThingStillOn after a nearby microphone picked it up]]. Biden sort-of leaned into the phrase in a {{Bowdlerise}}d way, as his 2020 campaign website said that any donations made by people were "a big freakin' deal".
* RailEnthusiast: He's a famous rail-travel advocate and comedic portrayals of him parody this into a childish enthusiasm for "the choo-choos". This is because, as a senator, he never had a house in Washington, D.C. Instead, he chose to take a four-hour daily commute via UsefulNotes/{{Amtrak}} from his home in Wilmington, Delaware so he could see his sons in the mornings and evenings. On a policy level, he has always been a major booster for Amtrak--earning the nickname "Amtrak Joe"--and never met a passenger rail improvement project he didn't like. Amtrak would often hold the last train to Wilmington so Biden could make it home and eventually renamed the Wilmington train station the "Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Rail Station" in honor of his political support and loyal ridership. By the time he was elected to the presidency in 2020, he was totally leaning into this trope - and in an official government capacity too! His [[https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-biden/ bio as President on the official White House website]] is subtitled ''"From Scranton to Wilmington to the White House — with thousands of train rides in between."''
* SaltAndPepper:
** Obama and Biden. During their tenure, Obama, the first African-American president, was often viewed as the straight-laced one of the two, with a dry sense of humor (most of the time) and was always calm and very measured with the press outside of the occasional wry remark, whereas Biden, a white man, was goofier and would oftentimes ramble and say silly things on live television.
** He would replicate this relationship with Kamala Harris, with the roles inverted. For whatever reason,[[note]]Be it the tragic death of his son towards the end of his tenure as VP, or just the fact that 12 years had passed between Biden being first inaugurated as vice president and as president, and by the time the latter took place he was pushing 80.[[/note]] "Diamond Joe" gave way to a more reserved Biden by the time he became president. Harris, his vice president, on the other hand, was the first African-American (and first South Asian/Indian) vice president, and was noted for, despite cultivating an image of an IronLady in the Senate, not having the trademark ''appearance'' of one (wearing her hair relaxed and long instead of sporting PowerHair, for example), being otherwise vivacious and even having her own distinctive SignatureLaugh (which even her detractors took notice, but which they portray as an AnnoyingLaugh).

* SpeechImpediment: He's been living with a stutter for his whole life, but worked through it. He said his mother would tell him, "'Joey, don't let this define you. Joey, remember who you are. Joey, you can do it.' So every time I would walk out, she would reinforce me. I know that sounds silly, but it really matters." During the 2020 Democratic National Convention, there was a short segment focusing on [[https://twitter.com/DemConvention/status/1296635661684965378 then-13-year-old Brayden Harrington]], whom Biden had personally assisted by telling Harrington ways that helped Biden get his own stuttering under control.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ice cream. Portrayals of Biden have taken his love of ice cream, especially vanilla soft-serve ice cream cones, and ran with it, taking any opportunity to shoehorn in a cone. For his part, Biden has leaned into it, even posting a picture of a pint of ice cream as part of his prep routine ahead of the first general election debate in 2020 (cleverly using a pint of ice cream from a producer based in UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, the state where that debate was held), and took a short detour from his campaigning the following month to [[https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1316572503616094208 gush about Dairy Queen's Blizzards]] for National Dessert Day. [[https://twitter.com/JoeBiden His Twitter profile]] also includes "Loves ice cream" in his description.
* VerbalTic: Aside from the stutter that Biden had been struggling with since childhood and has often been the source of his misspeaking, he also regularly uses several turns of phrase to keep his words on track.
** "The fact of the matter is ..."
** "... first of all, second of all..." when transitioning between two topics.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Well, more like Violently Protective ''Wife'', but Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, gained media attention at the 2020 Super Tuesday primaries when, during her husband's victory speech after he won the majority of the states in play, she physically blocked a protester who got onstage from getting at him by [[https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/jill-biden-vs-protester-gty-jc-200304_hpMain_16x9_1600.jpg giving the protester a stiff-arm.]] The jokes about it on late night were endless, such as in ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'' and ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah''.
-->'''Stephen Colbert:''' I don't know if Joe can win the presidency, but Jill is definitely going to win ''Wrestling/SummerSlam''!\\
''[shows a photoshopped picture of Jill Biden shoulder-tackling Wrestling/RomanReigns]''\\\
'''Creator/TrevorNoah:''' That Jill Biden -- see that? -- stepped in and blocked that protester like a white lady Jackie Chan. Bam! […] Hell, Biden has more women protecting him than [[Film/BlackPanther2018 T'Challa]]. No wonder he's winning the black vote.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Despite being on opposite sides of the aisle, Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were once close friends. Graham even praised him, while choking up, as "as good a man God ever created" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMYW8jFPHg this interview]] in 2015. However, their friendship deteriorated as Graham began cozying up to then-President Trump, publicly insulted Biden's son Hunter as Hunter became the target of Republican attack ads during the 2020 election, and became a key defender of Trump during his Ukraine scandal and impeachment. Graham called him shortly after the election to patch up, stating that [[NeverMyFault he only attacked Hunter to satisfy Trump and his supporters]], but Biden told him off. The breakdown in their friendship was particularly highlighted in the media, as Biden had pledged during the 2020 election to be open to work alongside opposing politicians (which received mixed reactions), yet Graham's actions [[EveryoneHasStandards were too much to bear]]. When asked about their friendship by Creator/StephenColbert, Biden solemnly said that Graham was "a personal disappointment."

Tragically, Biden has endured a number of painful personal losses during his public service. His [[HappilyMarried first wife]] Neilia and their baby daughter died in a car accident with both their young sons severely injured, shortly after his first election to the Senate in 1972 -- nearly leading him to resign before his career got started. Biden himself suffered a nearly-fatal brain aneurysm in 1988, then underwent ''another'' surgery for a second one. His older son Beau, a National Guard veteran and Attorney General of Delaware who seemed set to follow in his father's footsteps, died of brain cancer in 2015 towards the end of Biden's tenure as VP (leading him to shelve his tentative plans to run in the 2016 election), and his surviving son Hunter has had long-term struggles with both mental health and substance abuse, with Biden involved in his care and recovery. While Biden is normally seen as fairly mild-mannered, [[PapaWolf going after his family is certainly]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes not to be advised]]. Nor is questioning his Catholic faith, being (as previously mentioned) only the second Catholic president after JFK.[[note]]This appears to stem from the fact that Biden, like most Democrats, has long been pro-choice, despite the Catholic Church's famously pro-life stance, which has become an endless source for critics of either Biden and/or abortion to decry him as a "no true Catholic". This went to the point that after becoming vice president, there were reports of Biden supposedly being excommunicated, which were later revealed to only amount to the bishops of a couple of churches Biden used to attend denying him communion. The idea of Biden being denied communion arose again after he became president, this time discussed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, but so far no such action has been taken. Regarding Biden's views on the matter, on one incident in 2005, Biden told the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', "The next Republican that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads down his throat." He did ''[[BeamMeUpScotty not]]'' say that if a Republican ever questioned his faith again, he would shove his rosary beads "[[AssShove up his ass]]", contrary to widespread reporting of the latter.[[/note]]

* ''Website/BabylonBee'': As a right-wing conservative NewsParody, the Bee usually portrays Biden as a ScatterbrainedSenior and a [[https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-apologizes-for-racist-gaffe-i-like-all-races-even-the-bad-ones patronizing]] [[https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-vows-to-help-all-minorities-whether-they-are-black-yellow-or-taco racist.]]
* During his time as Vice President, ''Website/TheOnion'' regularly published articles on Biden, portraying him as a CoolOldGuy and a LovableSexManiac (its first appearance being in an article famously titled "Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am in White House Driveway"). This characterization, nicknamed "Diamond Joe", was so popular that it even got [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_(The_Onion) its own page]] on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}. After Biden began his 2020 presidential campaign, former ''Onion'' editor Joe Garden wrote a self-critical op-ed where he said that while he still felt the caricature had been funny, he expressed regret that it had failed to provide more meaningful commentary on Biden's real-life record, and after reviving the "Diamond Joe" version of Biden for one final article ("Biden Pulls Off Dusty Tarp Covering Old Campaign Motorcycle"), his characterization in ''The Onion'' changed, and articles portrayed him as more of a DirtyOldMan currently grappling with senility.
* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'', given its right-libertarian perspective, usually depicts him as a ScatterbrainedSenior. In "Biden's Actual Inauguration", he's taken away during his inauguration speech by UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris, who then has herself inaugurated right then and there.

Tragically, Biden has endured a number of painful personal losses during his public service. His [[HappilyMarried first wife]] Neilia and their baby daughter died in a car accident with both their young sons severely injured, shortly after his first election to the Senate in 1972 -- nearly leading him to resign before his career got started. Biden himself suffered a nearly-fatal brain aneurysm in 1988, then underwent ''another'' surgery for a second one. His older son Beau, a National Guard veteran and Attorney General of Delaware who seemed set to follow in his father's footsteps, died of brain cancer in 2015 towards the end of Biden's tenure as VP (leading him to shelve his tentative plans to run in the 2016 election), and his surviving son Hunter has had long-term struggles with both mental health and substance abuse, with Biden involved in his care and recovery. While Biden is normally seen as fairly mild-mannered, [[PapaWolf going after his family is certainly]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes not to be advised]]. Nor is questioning his Catholic faith, being (as previously mentioned) only the second Catholic president after JFK.[[note]]This appears to stem from the fact that Biden, like most Democrats, has long been pro-choice, despite the Catholic Church's famously pro-life stance, which has become an endless source for critics of either Biden and/or abortion to decry him as a "no true Catholic". This went to the point that after becoming vice president, there were reports of Biden supposedly being excommunicated, which were later revealed to only amount to the bishops of a couple of churches Biden used to attend denying him communion. The idea of Biden being denied communion arose again after he became president, this time discussed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, but so far no such action has been taken. Regarding Biden's views on the matter, on one incident in 2005, Biden told the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', "The next Republican that [[BerserkButton tells me I'm not religious]], I'm going to shove my rosary beads down his throat." He did ''[[BeamMeUpScotty not]]'' say that if a Republican ever questioned his faith again, he would shove his rosary beads "[[AssShove up his ass]]", contrary to widespread reporting of the latter.[[/note]]

* The ''[[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/D42/obama-biden-mysteries Obama Biden Mysteries]]'' novels published by [[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ Penguin Random House]] portray former President Barack Obama and former VP Joe Biden as solving crimes like a modern day Literature/SherlockHolmes and [[TheWatson Dr. Watson]] after they leave the White House (with some satirical political commentary on the side). Fun fact: This is the same company that has published President Obama's memoir ''[[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562882/a-promised-land-by-barack-obama/9781524763169 A Promised Land]]'' and former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir ''[[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562881/becoming-by-michelle-obama/9781524763138 Becoming]]''.

** ''Website/TheOnion'' portrayed him as driving a 1978 Trans Am, which he would wash [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] in the White House driveway. ''The Obama Biden Mysteries'', a series of novels that portray Obama and Biden as solving crimes like a modern day Literature/SherlockHolmes and [[TheWatson Dr. Watson]] after they leave the White House, actually features Biden driving a Trans Am [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETAUd_rX0AEx81V?format=jpg&name=large in one of its covers]], possibly as a direct ShoutOut to his ''The Onion'' portrayal.

* BigShutUp: During the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump repeatedly interrupted Biden's attempt to answer a question given to him by moderator Chris Wallace on whether he would support "court-packing."[[note]]"Court-packing" was a proposal introduced by progressive Democrats to add more justices to the Supreme Court; a similar attempt was briefly considered by FDR in 1937 so he could get more favorable rulings on New Deal legislation.[[/note]] Annoyed by this, Biden ended up snapping at Trump "Will you shut up, man?" [[MemeticMutation This instantly became a meme during that year's election cycle]].

* BigShutUp: During the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump repeatedly interrupted Biden's attempt to answer a question given to him by moderator Chris Wallace on whether he would support "court-packing."[[note]]"Court-packing" was a proposal introduced by progressive Democrats to add more justices to the Supreme Court. A similar attempt was made by FDR in 1937 so he could get more favorable rulings on New Deal legislation, but backed out due to political pressure (the Court would end up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_switch_in_time_that_saved_nine shifting ideologically]] anyway). The blowback over the court-packing plan, Roosevelt's attempts to purge conservative Democrats in the primaries, and the recession of 1937 were major factors in the Republicans gaining 81 seats in the 1938 House of Representatives elections.[[/note]] Annoyed by this, Biden ended up snapping at Trump "Will you shut up, man?" [[MemeticMutation This instantly became a meme during that year's election cycle]].

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: For someone who is usually quite respectful and amenable to even the staunchest of Republicans, Biden is quite scornful of his predecessor, dismissing him as incompetent and irresponsible. Biden even went so far to call Trump a SoreLoser who is [[IRejectYourReality still unwilling to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election]] even though he grudgingly conceded once the Electoral College certified the results.

* ''WesternAnimation/ParadisePD'': There's a RunningGag about Biden being a MemeticMolester, with a particular interest in Dusty.

** During the 2020 election against Trump, Biden would make several snide jabs, particularly noticeable in that the Trump campaign tried to portray him as not being the sharpest knife in the drawer due to his age. His most memorable was at the second debate, when he sarcastically referred to Trump as UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln (as Trump had previously said he'd done more for African-Americans than any president except maybe Lincoln). Equally memorable was [[SarcasmBlind Trump's response]]. As Trump was prone to calling him childish nicknames such as "Sleepy Joe" or "Slow Joe", Biden eventually retorted and called him "President Tweety" for his incessant usage of Twitter. Biden supporters quickly jumped at the nickname, creating [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Tweety Bird]] memes out of it.

* BigShutUp: During the first presidential debate of the 2020 American general election, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump repeatedly interrupted Biden's attempt to answer a question given to him by moderator Chris Wallace on whether he would support "court-packing."[[note]]"Court-packing" was a proposal introduced by progressive Democrats to add more justices to the Supreme Court. A similar attempt was made by FDR in 1937 to expand the Supreme Court so he could get more favorable rulings on New Deal legislation, but backed out due to political pressure (the Court would end up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_switch_in_time_that_saved_nine shifting ideologically]] anyway). The infighting within the Democratic Party over the court-packing plan, Roosevelt's attempts to purge conservative Democrats in the primaries, and the recession of 1937 were major factors in the Republicans gaining 81 seats in the 1938 House of Representatives elections.[[/note]] Annoyed by this, Biden ended up snapping at Trump "Will you shut up, man?" [[MemeticMutation This instantly became a meme during that year's election cycle]].

** During the 2020 election against Donald Trump, Biden would get in several snide jabs, particularly noticeable in that the Trump campaign tried to portray him as not being the sharpest knife in the drawer due to his age. His most memorable was at the second debate, when he sarcastically referred to Trump as UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln (as Trump had previously said he'd done more for African-Americans than any president except maybe Lincoln). Equally memorable was [[SarcasmBlind Trump's response]].

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: For someone who is usually quite respectful and amenable to even the staunchest of Republicans, Biden is quite scornful of his predecessor, dismissing him as irresponsible and lacking in competence.
* AFatherToHisMen: While how he did so was harshly criticized across the aisle, Biden fiercely defended his withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan, stating that he will not send any more "generations of America's daughters and sons" to fight the war. This was keeping with a promise that he had made over a decade prior when his son Beau was deployed to active service that he would not see his grandchildren go to fight in the same war.[[note]]In Biden's defense, it was Trump who got the ball rolling for the withdrawal with not enough time for the Biden Administration to prepare (Trump also freed 5,000 Taliban, including [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar one of their key leaders]]) and the U.S. military had trained the (now exiled) Afghan government's military to continue keeping the Taliban at bay once the U.S. military left, only for the Afghan government's military to end up folding almost without a fight.[[/note]]

* {{Gasshole}}: Noticeably broke wind loudly (accidentally) in the face of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor the Duchess of Cornwall]]. Fortunately [[ActuallyPrettyFunny she found it hilarious]].

* {{Gasshole}}: Noticeably broke wind loudly (accidentally) in the face of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor the Duchess of Cornwall]]. Fortunately she [[ActuallyPrettyFunny she found it hilarious.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Despite being on opposite sides of the aisle, Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were once close friends. Graham even praised him as "as good a man God ever created" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMYW8jFPHg&ab_channel=HuffPost this interview]] in 2015. However, their friendship deteriorated as Graham began cozying up to then President Trump, publicly insulted Biden's son Hunter and became a key defender of Trump during his Ukraine scandal and impeachment. Graham called him shortly after the election to patch up, stating that [[NeverMyFault he only attacked]] Hunter to satisfy Trump and his supporters, but Biden told him off. When asked about their friendship by Creator/StephenColbert, Biden solemnly said that Graham was "a personal disappointment."

Those years of service and his established record as a moderate in both politics and temperament set Biden up early on as one of the favorites to run against Trump in 2020, and Trump was impeached twice by a Democratic House (but acquitted by the Senate) for using the president's office to attempt to disrupt first Biden's campaign and then the certification of his election. Biden successfully flipped back the three "Rust Belt" states of Wisconsin, UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, and Pennsylvania[[note]]Biden was a favored candidate by Democrats in the 2020 primaries in part because he was born in Pennsylvania.[[/note]] that Trump had flipped in 2016 after having voted for Democrats since at least the beginning of TheNineties, plus delivering unexpected (if very narrow) victories in long-solid Republican states UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} and UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}. Delays in the vote count and an increase in mail-in voting caused by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic led Trump and many of his supporters to make unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud and even storm the Capitol during the election certification, marking only the second non-peaceful transition of presidential power in U.S. history ([[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the first]] coming after UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's first election in 1860) and the first time the Confederate Battle Flag was paraded through the US Capitol. None of these accusations held up in court, and Biden was sworn in on schedule.