Old Yeller: Biden’s Private Fury

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In public,ย President Bidenย likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he’s prone to yelling.

  • Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.
  • The president’s admonitions include: “God dammit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!,” “Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!” and “Get the f**k out of here!” โ€” according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts.

Why it matters: The private eruptions paint a more complicated picture of Biden as a manager and president than his carefully cultivated image as a kindly uncle who loves Aviator sunglasses and ice cream.

  • Some Biden aides think the president would be better off occasionally displaying his temper in public as a way to assuage voter concerns that the 80-year-old president is disengaged and too old for the office.

Zoom in: Senior and lower-level aides alike can be in Biden’s line of fire. “No one is safe,” said one administration official.

  • Biden aides still talk about how angry he got atย Jeff Zients, then the administration’s “COVID czar,” in late 2021 when there was a shortage of testing kits as the Omicron variant spread. (The rage was temporary. Zients is now Biden’s chief of staff.)
  • A spokesperson for Zients told Axios: “I’m not going to speak to what internal convos may or may not have happened between Jeff and the president.”
  • The White House declined to comment.

“There’s no question that the Biden temper is for real. It may not be as volcanic as Bill Clintonโ€™s, but it’s definitely there,” said Chris Whipple, author of “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Bidenโ€™s White House.”

  • Whipple’s book quotes former White House press secretaryย Jen Psakiย as saying: “I said to [Biden] multiple times, ‘I’ll know we have a really good, trusting relationship when you yell at me the first time.'”
  • Whipple notes: “Psaki wouldn’t have to wait long.”

Zoom out: Biden’s temper comes in the form of angry interrogations rather than erratic tantrums.

By Alex Thompson

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