View Co-Host Complains Jill Biden Played Referee For Husband During Interview: ‘Very Unhelpful’

by | May 18, 2025 | Axios, CNN, Mediate

The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin complained former First Lady Jill Biden was “very unhelpful” during an interview with her husband and prevented him from shutting down “cognitive decline” concerns.

Former President Joe Biden appeared on The View where he defended staying in the 2024 election before endorsing former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Griffin joined CNN anchor Abby Phillip on Saturday Table for Five and when asked about the first lady joining her husband for the interview, Griffin admitted it played into the “worst assumptions” about him, including that he can’t “finish a sentence.”

“I left thinking he definitely could not have done another four years,” Griffin said about her reaction to the interview.

“What did you make of the fact that Jill Biden was there with him?” Phillip asked.

Griffin recalled during the interview that she had asked Biden about growing reports suggesting there was a “dramatic decline” in his cognitive abilities while in office. Biden called the reports wrong, but his wife stepped in to give a fuller answer, saying, “Alyssa, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us and they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.”

“I thought it was very unhelpful,” Griffin told Phillip on Saturday. “I asked the specific question about allegations of his cognitive decline. And he began to answer and then she jumped in for him. And I get it, as a spouse, you want to help your partner, but that was his moment to knock out of the park any fear that he has cognitive decline, and it played into. Basically the worst assumptions, that he can’t finish sentences and she had to help him out.”

Biden’s cognitive state while in office has become a hotly-debated topic once again as a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson revealed White House officials were actively concerned about the president amid multiple slip ups, including not recognizing George Clooney at a fundraiser.

New explosive audio of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in 2023 also dropped from Axios this week where Biden appears confused multiple times and he speaks in a hoarse voice. The White House previously blocked the release of the audio .

Watch above via CNN .

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