Biden’s 'low profile' frustrates Dems as Trump acts like second term 'has already begun'

As President-elect Trump prepares to return to the White House on January 20, 2025, he's is generating more headlines than the outgoing president.

Vanity Fair's Eric Lutz, in an article published on December 9, stresses that although Trump's second term is still more than a month away, he is acting like it "has already begun."

"Since winning election over Kamala Harris last month," Lutz explains, "Trump has dominated news cycles, held court with foreign leaders, and even begun pushing parts of his agenda — all with little pushback from the current administration. Over the weekend, as Notre Dame reopened from the fire that devastated it in 2019, the president-elect — but not the sitting president, Joe Biden — was on hand in Paris, meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with whom he discussed the 'situation on the battlefield' in the fight against Russia."

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Lutz notes that although "it's not unusual for incoming presidents to have limited engagement with foreign leaders," Trump's meetings with Macron and others have "not been the relationship-building of a typical transition."

The Vanity Fair reporter observes, "Biden, meanwhile, has kept a low profile since his party's defeat last month, ceding the spotlight, the bully pulpit, and the most visible parts of the presidency to his successor — frustrating some Democrats, who want him to use his final weeks in office to take a firmer stand for the values Trump threatens…. It has been notable…. how much the president has faded from public view, while a man he correctly identified as a threat to democracy prepares to take it over…. There is a sense that Biden is limping to the finish line, leaving a leadership void that his successor has been only too happy to fill."

Usamah Andrabi of Justice Democrats, interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, said of Biden, "This is one of the lamest of lame ducks we’ve seen with a Democratic administration." And a House Democrat, interviewed on condition of anonymity, recently told Axios, "There's certainly frustration with the Biden Administration. In some ways, the most frustrating part is some of us really love Joe Biden. The feeling is: Why do you have to go out like this?'"

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Read the full Vanity Fair article at this link.