Joe “Try Being 110 Years Old” Biden

In this chapter, caricatures of President Joe ““try being 110” years old” Biden are examined. For years, Biden, as both a US senator and vice president, was lampooned for his Quayle-esque reputation as a “gaffe machine.” However, after he assumed the presidency jokes about his verbal misstatements began to morph into jokes about his age. In particular, his many gaffes have been used to infer that he is less than fully competent because of his age. The negative humorous caricature of Biden is that of a well-meaning old man, both forgetful and prone to misspeaking.