Former US President Joe Biden took aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk during the first speech of his post-presidency.
Biden headlined the Advocates, Counsellors, and Representatives for the Disabled conference in Chicago on Tuesday evening, April 15.
The 82-year-old reportedly asked: ‘Who in the hell do they think they are?’ as he went after Trump, Republicans and DOGE for destabilising Social Security.
‘Why are these guys taking aim at Social Security now?’ the former president asked. ‘They’re following that old line from tech startups – the quote is “move fast, break things.” They’re shooting first and aiming later.’
Without saying Trump’s name, nor Musk’s, he said they were creating ‘needless pain and sleepless nights.’
Biden quoted Martin O’Malley, the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration during his administration.
‘My friend Gov. O’Malley knows what they’re really up to, he says, and I love this quote – they want to wreck it so they can rob it,’ Biden went on. ‘Why do they want to rob it? To deliver huge tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations and keep it going.’
During his introduction of Biden, O’Malley called out Trump and Musk saying that they have ‘gutted the Social Secuity Administration with a chainsaw’ creating the ‘largest exodus of staff the agency has ever suffered.’
The former Maryland governor said the other big lie was that illegal immigrants were ‘sucking Social Security dry.’
O’Malley pointed out that it’s already illegal for undocumented immigrants to receive Social Security benefits.