Joe Biden again mused about fighting Donald Trump on the playground in a meandering interview with Howard Stern that took the president through family tragedies, morbid thoughts, and recollections of his time as a young widower in the Senate where his dating life became a ‘celebrity issue.’
Biden said he would be “happy” to meet Trump on the debate stage, after earlier casting doubt on the idea during, in a bizarre conversation with Stern on his Sirius XM that lasted more than an hour and hit highlights plucked from Biden’s action-packed 81-year-old life story.
‘Trump makes fun of me, right?” Biden told Stern. “Here’s the kind of guy that really wish it could have gotten in the neighborhood …” he said, without finishing his thought.
Stern asked a series of heart-wrenching questions about the car accident that took the wife of Biden’s first wife Neilia and his one-year-old daughter Naomi. But things soon turned to the period when Biden was romantically available – and women took notice.
“I got put in that ten most eligible bachelors list,” he told Stern, who observed he was a U.S. senator at the time.
“And a lot of lovely women, but women, would send very salacious pictures and I just give them to the Secret Service. And I thought somebody would think I was …” he said, without clarifying why the agency who handles presidential security would be involved.
He decided to tap the breaks on his romantic pursuits.
“And I just gave up,” Biden said. Then, “I got a call from my brother. So I have a girl here at Delaware – Jill is nine years younger than I am. He said you’ll love her. She doesn’t like politics,” he continued, describing events that set up his second marriage.
It was one of the few times their conversation got into the territory where Stern made his reputation as a radio shock jock. For much of the interview, Stern asked a series of softball biographical questions in an interview that culminated with the host sharing his own exasperation about how people could vote for someone who told a Georgia election official to “find 11,780” votes.
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