Biden warns against Trump’s ‘monarchy’ on July 4 while ex-president gleefully watches the chaos

President Joe Biden’s struggling debate performance was met with immediate demands for him to step down, and the White House and Democratic officials have spent the last week scrambling to respond to an avalanche of questions about the 81-year-old president’s health and future.

It’s been an apparently welcome diversion for Donald Trump and his campaign, keeping media attention away from his own streak of unintelligible public statements, questions about his mental fitness, and an off-the-rails agenda that just a few days ago called for “televised military tribunals” for a former congresswoman.

He’s kept a relatively low profile, for him. He gave a handful of radio interviews and doesn’t have any public appearances on his schedule until a rally on July 9. A stealthily recorded post-debate video from his New Jersey golf course shows him calling Biden “that old broken down pile of c**p.” On his Truth Social, he wished a happy Fourth of July to the president who “choked like a dog”.

But he appears content to let his Democratic rivals duke out their political future. “Chaos is our friend,” a person close to Trumptold CNN. Trump’s senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles issued a statement on Wednesday welcoming the “Total Collapse of the Democrat Party.”

Biden and his campaign are now using the Fourth of July holiday to shift the discussion to Trump’s antidemocratic threats — and how the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution gives a potential President Trump authoritative control of the presidency.

The president is expected to deliver remarks from the White House alongside First Lady Jill Biden on July 4.

“There are no kings in America,” Biden said in an address on July 1, after the Supreme Court’s ruling