President Donald Trump had a blunt reaction when he learned that his predecessor signed with a Hollywood talent agency.
The president was speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday after he signed more of his executive orders, when Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked if he knew that former President Joe Biden signed with Creative Arts Agency.
‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’ Trump said, while shaking his head in disbelief.
‘I would have thought he has bigger problems than that, but I wish him well,’ he continued, before taking the opportunity to complain about the ‘mess’ the 82-year-old former commander-in-chief left him.
‘But it’s quickly being solved, the problem,’ Trump said. ‘We’re going to make America great again.’
It remains unclear exactly how Biden plans to use his representation from the CAA, which previously represented him after he left the vice presidency and also represents former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
‘President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs,’ said CAA co-chairman Richard Lovett in a statement to Variety.
‘His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.’
President Donald Trump had a blunt reaction when he learned that his predecessor signed with a Hollywood talent agency
Former President Joe Biden signed with Creative Arts Agency
When Biden was a CAA client between 2017 and 2020, the agency shepherded the release of his No. 1 New York Times bestseller, Promise Me, Dad, which revolved around the 2015 death of Beau Biden.
Biden then went on a 42-date ‘American Promise’ tour, as part of the book’s launch, which sold more than 85,000 tickets and helped jumpstart his successful 2020 White House campaign.
There is now speculation that Biden may now release another memoir about his time in the Oval Office as he starts the process of building a presidential library.
After watching Trump take over on January 20, the former president and first lady flew off to California, as Biden suggested that his son Hunter’s house was destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The former first son lives in the LA area with his second wife Melissa Cohen and their son Beau.
Amid the fires, Hunter’s oldest daughter Naomi Biden gave birth to the Bidens’ first great grandchild, a boy named William Brannon Neal, IV.
Naomi and her husband Peter Neal relocated to Los Angeles from D.C.
CAA previously represented Biden after he left the vice presidency
Unlike former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, who attended the FIREAID Benefit Concert in Los Angeles last week, the Bidens haven’t been seen publicly.
The former president only posted on social media a picture of himself with new DNC Chair Ken Martin on Monday.
‘Great meeting today with the new Chair of the DNC, @KenMartin73, who is ready for the fight ahead,’ Biden posted on X.
Democrats elected new party leadership at the DNC Winter Meeting on Saturday.
Not everyone in the party wants Biden to continue to play a role.
Former President Barack Obama (left) and first lady Michelle Obama (right), photographed at the Democratic National Convention in August, also are clients of Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said on his podcast last month that many members of the Democratic Party wanted Biden to go away.
‘What he’s done to himself is, no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. OK? Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there,’ Carville said.
Carville was among the Democrats who thought Biden should have bowed out of the race long before July, forcing Harris to run a campaign in less than four months.
‘Just look, guy, you had a noble career, your last act was terrible, just get out of the way, the party’s moving on, I mean they’re really moving on,’ he said. ‘It’s very sad but it’s just where we are but he created this himself.’
