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President Biden came into office in 2021 a media darling. CNN’s Anderson Cooper intoned it was a “new beginning” for America the day he was inaugurated. Four years later, his legacy was met with harsh reviews in the months following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump, which several columnists and political commentators suggest will be what Americans remember most about his one-term presidency.
Washington Post columnist Matt Bai wrote that Biden will officially exit the White House on January 20, Trump’s inauguration day, feeling some regret about dropping out of the race in July. Critics and several of the president’s early allies in the media have weighed in on how Biden will be remembered upon his departure.
Biden will be remembered as a president who didn’t know when to leave, according to Washington Post columnist Matt Bai. New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote that Biden will end up in the history books as an interregnum between two terms of Donald J. Trump, a break in the middle of a chaotic period of change, for good or ill.
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia. (Getty Images)
Democratic strategist Susan Estrich told the BBC that Biden’s legacy was essentially that Trump’s presidency would book-end his own. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President-elect Donald Trump is only the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms. President Biden releases farewell letter, saying it’s been “the privilege of my life to serve this nation”.
Members of the press were excited when Biden became the president in 2020, praising the president as a truth-teller and upright figure, particularly after four years of Trump. President Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia. (Getty Images)
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens gave Biden credit for “NATO enlargement, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, defending Ukraine and Israel, and strengthening alliances in the Pacific,” though he argued that they might not matter. President Biden speaks about his administration on Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Liberal media raved over Biden’s farewell address, saying it “put a chill down my spine”. President-elect Donald Trump is only the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms. (Evan Vucci/AP)
Biden will be remembered as the old man who handed the country over to Trump instead of the transitory president he claimed he would be, and history could ultimately show that he was. President James Sellers, a Trump supporter, holds a cutout of the former president’s face during a rally in Virginia. (Getty Images)
A president’s legacy can be lumbering, and a stain on history. President Biden came into office with a broad mandate, but his actions have resulted in a record of achievement that is unimpressive.