Biden bizarrely calls Mike Johnson ‘dead on arrival’ after House Speaker criticizes Supreme Court reform

President Biden bizarrely called House Speaker Mike Johnson “dead on arrival” after the Louisiana Republican criticized him for attempting to “radically reshape” the Supreme Court in an election year.

When a reporter learned that Johnson had described his reform proposal in the House of Representatives as “doomed from the start,” Biden oddly remarked, “It is.”

“He is – dead on arrival,” he said as he answered reporters’ shouted questions on the tarmac about Johnson’s reaction.

“This is incoherent and pathetic (of course Andrew Bates reposted it),” Johnson’s spokesman Taylor Haulsee posted on X, calling out the White House deputy press secretary who had spent weeks vehemently denying reports that his boss was planning to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Johnson later reposted the video of the president’s remarks on his X account, including a clip from Biden’s disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump in which Trump said, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”

Biden, 81, suspended his re-election efforts last week and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his likely Democratic nominee.

In a speech in the Oval Office last Thursday, he indicated that he would soon “call for reform of the Supreme Court because it is crucial to our democracy.” Weeks earlier, he had delivered a fiery speech about the ruling that gave presidents absolute immunity from official acts.

Johnson said the president’s plans to impose term limits and a code of conduct, as well as other proposed changes to the Supreme Court, would “shift the balance of power and undermine not only the rule of law but also the American people’s faith in our legal system.”

“This proposal is the logical conclusion of the ongoing efforts by the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court,” Johnson said Monday. “Their calls to expand and pack the Court will soon resurface.”

“It is telling that Democrats want to change the system that has governed our country since its founding simply because they disagree with some of the court’s recent decisions,” he added. “This dangerous move by the Biden-Harris administration is doomed to fail in the House of Representatives.”

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), 77, the first sitting member of Congress to publicly call on Biden to resign, greeted the president as he descended the shorter stairs of the Air Force Base.

According to pool reports on the touchdown, Biden smiled and shook Doggett’s hand before posing for a selfie with Rep. Al Green (D-Texas).

“Great to welcome President Biden to @AUStinAirport. A true statesman and patriot. We are now on our way to the LBJ Library to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and reaffirm our commitment to a more equal and just future,” Doggett posted on X about their interaction.

Doggett was an early supporter of Biden but backed out in the wake of the president’s debate performance against Trump last month, which brought consternation over his age to a head.

“I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to retire. President Biden should do the same,” Doggett said earlier this month.

Dozens of Democrats in both houses of Congress later followed suit, publicly calling on Biden to throw in the towel and pass the baton.

Finally, on July 21, Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his candidate for president.

Biden flew to Texas to deliver a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

Lyndon B. Johnson announced in 1968 that he would not seek re-election, and Republican Richard Nixon ultimately won that year. He resigned about 295 days before election night.

Biden’s withdrawal came an unprecedented 107 days before November 5 – and just over two weeks after Democrats planned to crown him the nominee in a virtual roll call.

The Speaker of the House had previously expressed doubts about Biden’s mental state and suggested that Democrats had plotted to cover up his failings.

“I didn’t want to talk about personal interactions with the president because I was concerned about … this demonstration of weakness on the world stage at a very dangerous time.”, Johnson said this last week on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“Now that the cat is out of the bag, you can hear from the Republican spokesman what everyone else already knew and saw. The Democrats were involved in a major cover-up here,” he added.