Top Biden Adviser Roasted on Claim He Didn’t Know About Biden Decline: ‘Didn’t Even Remember Who You WERE!’
Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was called a liar and more on social media Friday over his claim to have been completely “shocked” and caught off-guard when seeing how President Joe Biden performed at last year’s infamous debate with President Donald Trump.
Speaking on stage with Politico’s Jack Blanchard at the publication’s Security Summit this week, the former top adviser on matters of national security was asked by Blanchard about the cognitive and physical decline, as well as the failures in informing the public about it, which are the subject of a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
In a clip that went viral on Friday, Blanchard asked Sullivan point-blank whether he witnessed or knew about any such decline prior to the debate.
“You never saw, you never witnessed this thing that all these aides are talking about to these journalists that sometimes he would just sort of fade away. You never witnessed that,” he said, after Sullivan had expressed his confidence at the time in the president’s decision-making.
“You must have been shocked, then, when you saw him on stage in that debate,” said Blanchard, getting a “yep” from Sullivan.
“What happened in that debate was a shock to me, I think was a shock to everybody,” said the former security adviser.
When the clip was shared on X, there were some strongly worded responses, many of which referenced an incident recounted in the book, which alleges that Biden forgot Sullivan’s name and repeatedly referred to him as “Steve” during a conversation way back in 2022, long before the debate.
Dude, Biden didn’t even remember who you WERE. https://t.co/AvBPqwUIH9 https://t.co/V2fW5VqmZU
— 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘑. 𝘋𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 (@StevenJDuffield) May 16, 2025
Either Jake Sullivan is lying or somehow the national-security adviser of the United States never spent any time with the president of the United States https://t.co/diu296g2fx
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) May 16, 2025
absolute lie https://t.co/dSSVjZosfs
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 15, 2025
Note the interviewer doesn’t challenge Sullivan’s response at all. He just moves on. This is what most of the media did covering Biden’s decline. There was rarely any pushback. Never a follow-up like, “Do you really expect people to believe that?” https://t.co/yiM8GX6ebM
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) May 16, 2025
I don’t buy Jake Sullivan’s story at all. https://t.co/LQtO1A7CVG pic.twitter.com/7xRmL7J1XV
— Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) May 16, 2025
They’re all so deeply full of shit and I’m glad they had their asses handed to them https://t.co/S8RasQmSZY
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 15, 2025
I could not lie in public like this no matter how much money I was being paid. I would choose the gutter over my soul. I marvel at the depravity of those who choose otherwise, or who lie to themselves so successfully they render themselves worthless in the eyes of posterity. https://t.co/RPaz4Lk0gt
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) May 15, 2025
The implications of this are pretty shocking –
Either Biden had no communication with his National Security Advisor for several months or even a year..
Or Sullivan is lying. https://t.co/Njt5xWE70J
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 16, 2025
Either Jake Sullivan is lying or somehow the national-security adviser of the United States never spent any time with the president of the United States https://t.co/diu296g2fx
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) May 16, 2025
Blanchard did ask Sullivan about the account of that meeting from Tapper and Thompson, and Sullivan called its accuracy into question.
“I do not recall that ever happening,” he said, insisting that Biden did and does know his name.
