Jill Biden Gives Grim Update on Joe Biden’s Health on ‘The View’

Jill Biden was on hand for Tuesday’s (June 2) edition of The View, discussing her new memoir, View From the East Wing, and offered a somber update about former President Joe Biden‘s health amid his diagnosis with stage 4 prostate cancer.

“He’s doing OK,” she said, when Ana Navarro asked about his condition. “As probably everyone in this audience knows — because I’m sure you’ve all been touched by cancer — it’s hard, it’s hard. It’s stage 4, it’s in his bones, but he’s keeping up his schedule, he’s going to D.C. on Amtrak a couple of times a month, he’s speaking at Democratic rallies, he’s writing, so he’s active, he’s Joe.”

When she was then asked how the president, who has the best medical access in the world, could have cancer that has progressed to stage 4, Jill explained, “First of all, we had an amazing medical team. I mean, I had my medical team, he had his, and we did get annual physicals, and but they followed the guidelines of the American Urology Association, which says that men don’t get prostate screening after the age of 70, so unfortunately they didn’t do the PSA, and had they done that…” She then turned focus to the audience, saying, “So all you men, because I’m telling you, you need to pay attention to your health. Women, I think, are really good at it, but men, if you’re having a problem, don’t just say, ‘Oh, I’ll get to this later. Do something.”

She then spoke to the issue of her reaction to Biden’s catastrophic June 2024 debate with Donald Trump, saying, “No one ever came to me and said, ‘Jill, Joe’s aging,’ or, ‘Something’s wrong.’ So, when I saw that, I mean, no doctors came to me and said that, and Joe, like I said, has a whole team of doctors around, and so when I saw that, when all Americans saw that moment on TV at the debate, I mean, I was out of my mind, because I thought, ‘Oh my god, he’s having a stroke,’ and then I got off the stage. I went back, they brought me back on, we hug, we kiss, we’re walking off, and I see he’s OK, but we’re walking off, and he says to me, and I’m not going to say it on morning television… ‘I really messed up, didn’t I?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, Joe, you did,’ and we walked off. I went to get my stuff. The docs were right there. They’re like, ‘He’s fine, he’s fine.’ We had three events after that, three that night where he got up on stage and made speeches, whatever. And to this day, I still cannot say what happened in that moment.”

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Jill was then asked whether she still thinks Joe would have been fit to serve for four more years if he had continued in and won the general election, and she admitted, “Well, not from what I know now. I mean, my God, who knew? I mean, it was so shocking to get that cancer diagnosis. I mean, here I was, I’m looking through travel magazines, like, ‘Oh, where are we going to go? What are we going to do?’ And then we get this cancer diagnosis, and I think, ‘What am I doing? Our whole life is changed now.’ And so, I mean, it was just shocking.”

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